I do not think she ever knew how much her boys loved her.
In 1876 the Directors of the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia took steps to have the lives of three or four of the foremost women of the century that had just passed written as the best examples of American womanhood for our first century.

Mrs.
Schuyler was selected from New York, Mrs.Livermore from New Hampshire, and Mrs.Randolph from Virginia.

Mrs.Ripley was chosen as the representative of Massachusetts.

If anybody doubt the capacity of the intellect of woman to rival that of man in any calling requiring the highest intellectual capacity, without in the least forfeiting any quality of a delicate womanhood, let him read the "Life of Sarah Ripley." After her death Mr.Emerson wrote the following notice of her.

It is not found in his collected works.
"Died in Concord, Massachusetts, on the 26th of July, 1867, Mrs.Sarah Alden Ripley, aged seventy-four years.