As remembered by
Dorothy Jones

Five years after they had opened Sarah Lee Kitchen, Mrs. Milton sold her interest to Cabell and moved to Stanton Island, New York.  I remember how in-laws and family members strained to help Cabell get together the money she needed to pay Mrs. Milton.  I remember the family councils that were held to deal with the fact that Sarah Lee Kitchen was not doing well financially.  Lots of advice was forthcoming.  Cabell’s siblings thought of her as the sheltered youngest child of their parent’s six children… a shy small-town girl unfamiliar with the ways of the world… a pretty young lady who might sing a solo in the church… do delicate handwork, but never any work in the kitchen.  Little did they realize that Cabell, now the 38-year-old sole proprietor of a business, was a keen and determined businesswoman, able and willing to make her own decisions.  Her first decision was to discontinue the wholesale trade and concentrate on retail.  Next, she arranged for Elizabeth Pendleton Cox (Mrs. James Marcellus Cox), an Ashland artist, to create a logo for Sarah Lee Kitchen.  It was an attractive, delicate figure of a standing colonial lady daintily holding aloft a tiny basket.  Cabell then had this logo and the Sarah Lee Kitchen name copyrighted at the United States Patent office.

The variety of good things to eat made from scratch each day was no less than amazing.  Cabell was more than generous in bringing home to Ashland the delicious breads and treats.

To be continued…You can purchase the entire history of Sally Bell’s complete with photographs of all the “good things to eat” at the kitchen for $10.