Sarah Elizabeth Tanner (May 18, 1840 — August 2, 1914[1]) was active as a missionary worker and a religious leader in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
She was the wife of Benjamin Tucker Tanner. She was the mother of the artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and the physician Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson, and the grandmother of civil rights activist Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander.
She was the subject of two portraits by her son, his Portrait of an Artist's Mother and Mother of Henry O.
- ^ "Louisa Saunders Mentioned in the Record of Sarah Elizabeth Tanner (Louisa Saunders's Daughter) Death • Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915". FamilySearch.
Name of father Charles J. Miller; Birthplace of father Winchester, Va; Name of mother Louisa Saunders; Birthplace of mother Carlisle, Pa.
[info from familysearch.org: "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JFF8-CGH : 18 February 2021), Louisa Saunders in entry for Sarah Elizabeth Tanner, 02 Aug 1914; citing cn 18848, Philadelphia City Archives and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; FHL microfilm 1,429,047.]