Sarah Virginia Atwell (b. Harvey) (1852-1910) was born in Fairfax, Virginia, and died in Napa, California. As a child she lived with her family in Bennington, Vermont. In the early 1870s she married Franklin "Frank" J. Atwell and they settled in Schenectady, New York, where she worked as an instructor of domestic science and was the secretary of the Y.W.C.A. Atwell's husband was employed as a general and real estate insurance agent at D. A. Atwell & Son. After her husband's death in 1887, Atwell moved to Elmira, New York, and then to Worcester, Massachusetts, where she continued teaching. Around 1908 she relocated to Napa where she was a member of the New Century Club. Atwell was the daughter of Anna M. Harvey and the sister of Carrie Harvey Snider, both students of Mary Baker Eddy. In 1886 Anna M. Harvey wrote to Eddy encouraging her to accept Atwell and her husband into her Primary class in Christian Science, although the available records do not reflect that they took it.

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