Find A Grave - Suffragists

Adams, Abigail b. November 22, 1744 d. October 28, 1818
Presidential First Lady. She was the wife of 2nd United States President John Adams, and the mother of 6th United States President John Quincy Adams. Born in Waymouth, Massachusetts, on her mother's side she was descended from early prestigious leaders of the colony; her father was a Congregational minister. An avid reader, she formed an immediate bond with...[Read More] (Bio by: D C McJonathan-Swarm)
Adams Crypt, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Anderson, Louisa Garrett b. July 28, 1873 d. November 15, 1943
Medical Pioneer, Social Reformer. She was educated at St. Leonard's School, St. Andrews, and at the London School of Medicine for Women (located at the Royal Free Hospital). Her father was a shipowner; her mother was the first woman to qualify as a doctor, and the first woman to be elected Mayor in Great Britian (of Aldeburgh, where she is buried). Until the outbreak of the First World War, when she went to France with the Women's Hospital Corps, Louisa was engaged in private practice and...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
Holy Trinity Churchyard, Penn, Buckinghamshire, England
Anneke, Mathilde b. April 3, 1817 d. November 25, 1884
Social Reformer, Suffragist. Born in Lerchenhausen, Westphalia, she moved to America in the mid-19th century and founded the first feminist newspaper in the United States in Milwaukee, which in the process, took harsh rebuke of male printers who organized against her. She became a staunch advocate of women's rights, gaining prominence for writing and editing the of stories of the times in poems. Liberal environment found the social and political condition times of African Americans which she...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Anthony, Susan Brownell b. February 15, 1820 d. March 13, 1906
Social Reformer. One of the most famous suffragettes, she traveled, lectured and canvassed the nation for the vote for over sixty years while also advocating the abolition of slavery, women's rights to their own property and earnings, and the right to organize and belong to women's labor organizations. She dedicated her life to women's suffrage while encountering hostile mobs, armed threats, objects were hurled while her image was hung in effigy or dragged through the streets of America...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
Cause of death: Pneumonia and heart failure
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Section C, Lot 93
Belmont, Alva Smith Vanderbilt b. January 17, 1853 d. January 26, 1933
Suffragette. Born and raised in Mobile, Alabama, she was the daughter of a successful cotton merchant and plantation owner. Her parents were ruined at the outbreak of the Civil War and fled to Paris, France with their five children. When they returned to the United States after the war, her mother ran a New York City, New York boarding house and her father brokered cotton to support their family in genteel poverty. Her best friend from her childhood in Mobile, Consuelo Yznaga (later...[Read More]
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, Bronx County, New York, USA
Bloomer, Amelia Jenks b. May 27, 1818 d. December 30, 1894
Women's rights activist, social reformer. Born in New York and raised in a Presbyterian home, Bloomer received minimal formal education. At the age of 22, she married Quaker lawyer Dexter Bloomer, who was co-owner of the Seneca Falls County Courier. He encouraged Amelia to become active in social issues and to write articles in the paper. She attended, but had no part in the Women's Rights Convention of 1848 where she met Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Within a year, she began...[Read More] (Bio by: Anonymous)
Fairview Cemetery, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, USA
Bosher, Kate Lee b. February 1, 1865 d. July 27, 1932
Author, Suffragette. A writer of popular fiction, some of her best-selling novels include "Mary Cary, 'Freqently Martha'", "Miss Gibbie Gault", "Kitty Canary", and "His Friend Miss McFarlane". She was also a leading woman's suffrage advoctate, appearing as a speaker before the Virginia House of Delegates in 1912 and the Virginia Press Association convention in 1916 to advocate woman suffrage. She was a founder of the League of Woman Voters. (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Burns, Lucy b. April 20, 1879 d. September 15, 1966
Social reformer, Suffragette. Born one of seven children born, she was raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents were in favor of educating all of their children, including their daughters and Lucy received the best possible schooling, graduating from Vassar in 1902 and attending Yale graduate school. For a brief time she worked as an English teacher at Erasmus Hall School in Brooklyn. In 1906 she traveled to Germany to study language for two yearsafter which she returned from abroad to...[Read More] (Bio by: R. Digati)
Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Catt, Carrie Chapman b. January 9, 1859 d. March 9, 1947
Social reformer, suffragist. Carrie Chapman Catt began working for woman suffrage in Iowa in 1887. In 1900 she succeeded Susan B. Anthony as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). She held that position until 1904. In 1902 she founded the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) and served as president until 1923. Affiliates included Australia, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Norway, Sweden and the United States. In 1915 she accepted another term...[Read More] (Bio by: Diane Blank)
Cause of death: Heart attack
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, Bronx County, New York, USA
Plot: Primrose plot, along Laurel Avenue
Clay, Laura b. February 9, 1849 d. June 29, 1941
Suffragist. Born into an influential and politically active family, she was educated at Lexington, Kentucky's Sayre School, Mrs. Sarah Hoffman's Finishing School in New York City, New York, and the Universities of Michigan and Kentucky. She devoted her life to the cause of women's suffrage after the divorce of her parents left her mother homeless in 1869. She, along with Josephine Henry, founded the Kentucky Equal Rights Association in 1888, and served as president from 1888 to 1912. She and...[Read More] (Bio by: Anonymous)
Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA
Plot: Section J, Lot 6
Clay, Mary b. October 2, 1839 d. 1924
Suffragist. The daughter of abolitionist Cassius Clay and Mary Jane Warifield Clay, she was elected president of the American Women Suffrage Association in 1883.
Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA
Plot: Section J, Lot 6
Coates, Sarah b. March 10, 1829 d. July 24, 1897
Social Reformer. Headed a local Woman’s Suffrage Club for several years and was a personal friend of Susan B. Anthony. She served on many boards and helped found a group that became the Missouri Federation of Women’s Clubs. She was born in Pennsylvania. Her husband Kersey Coates was also born in Pennsylvania and practiced law there. He moved to the area that became Kansas City Missouri about 1854, where he was a director of a railroad, partner in a bank, and a real estate investor. He...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill Walker)
Elmwood Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA
Crandall, Prudence b. September 3, 1803 d. January 28, 1890
Civil Rights Pioneer, Educator, Temperance Advocate. Connecticut's official State Heroine. In March, 1833, Prudence Crandall established the first school for African-American girls in New England at Canterbury, Connecticut. (Bio by: John D. Ryan)
Elk Falls Cemetery, Elk Falls, Elk County, Kansas, USA
Croly, Jennie b. December 18, 1829 d. December 23, 1901
Early pioneer of women suffrage and founder of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, an international organization dedicated to community improvement through volunteer service and to providing opportunities that strengthen the role of women. She founded "Sorosis" the first professional club for women on March 21, 1868, in New York, when the mostly male New York Press Club decided to bar women reporters from attending a function honoring Charles Dickens during the famous British author's...[Read More] (Bio by: Richard H.)
Evergreen Cemetery, Lakewood, Ocean County, New Jersey, USA
Davison, Emily Wilding b. October 11, 1872 d. June 8, 1913
Sufferagette. Best remembered as the woman who lost her life protesting the suffergette movement by running in front of King George V's horse Anmer at the popular Epsom Derby in June of 1913. She was trampled underfoot, never regained conciousness and died in a hospital a few days later of a skull fracture. Historical information surrounding the events that led to Davison's death have been speculated, in particular the idea that she actually intended to commit suicide, which was false...[Read More] (Bio by: Selk)
St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Morpeth, Northumberland, England
Douglass, Helen b. 1838 d. 1903
Suffragist, Abolitionist. Founder of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association. Born in Honeoye, NY, Helen was the daughter of Gideon Pitts, Jr. and Jane Wells. She attended school at the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in Lima, NY and graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1859. She taught for several years at the Hampton Institute in Virginia until controversy and bad health forced her to return home. She moved to Washington, DC in 1882, where she co-edited the feminist...[Read More] (Bio by: VampireRed)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Section T Lot 26
Fish, Sarah D b. 1798 d. 1868
Abolitionist, Civil Rights leader. Along with her husband Benjamin and their daughters Catherine (Stebbins) and Mary (Curtis), her family was one of the most prominent early anti-slavery advocate groups. Her home was one of the first established stops on the Underground Railroad. She was also one of the earliest activists for women's rights; she was a participant in the very first Seneca Falls convention in 1848, was one of the signatories of the Declaration of Sentiments written by Susan B...[Read More] (Bio by: Mount Hope NY)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Section M Lot 101
Gage, Matilda Electa b. March 24, 1826 d. March 18, 1898
Social Reformer. One of the major leaders of the woman's rights movement, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Along with Stanton, she authored the major documents of the National Woman Suffrage Association, and her leadership positions in the organization paralleled those of Anthony. The three women were considered the suffrage "triumvirate". "Stanton, Anthony, and Gage, linked together in the authorship of The History of Woman Suffrage, will ever hold a grateful place in...[Read More] (Bio by: sjmb)
Fayetteville Cemetery, Fayetteville, Onondaga County, New York, USA
Gellhorn, Edna b. December 18, 1878 d. September 25, 1970
Active in the women's suffrage movement, Edna became the founder and first vice-president of the League of Women Voters in 1920 and President of the St. Louis and Missouri Leagues. Edna and her husband, well-known gynecologist Dr. George Gellhorn, led a successful campaign to reduce infant mortality by sanitary regulation of milk distribution and by provision of free medical clinics. When the St. Louis Globe Democrat named her Woman of Achievement in 1957, the paper wrote, "She has worked with...[Read More] (Bio by: Connie Nisinger)
Bellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
Plot: Block 269, Lot 5514
Gilman, Charlotte Anna b. July 3, 1860 d. August 17, 1935
Social Reformer. She was born to Frederick Beecher Perkins, a magazine editor. Her Great-Aunts were Catherine Beecher, Isabella Beecher Hooker, and writer, Harriet Beecher Stowe. In 1884, she married Charles W. Stetson, a local artist. After the birth of her only child, She suffered from a near nervous breakdown. This experience led her to move to California, get a divorce, and leave her daughter in the care of her ex-husband. In California, she turned to writing as a way of earning money. She...[Read More] (Bio by: Genet)
Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend, Pasadena, California

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