Her marker has the year 1893, but a notice about her funeral taking place on Tuesday, May 8, 1894, was published in the Morning Olympian on Wednesday, May 9, 1894.
Washington, U.S., Death Records, 1883-1960
Name: M M Ruddell [M M Stewart]
Birth Date: abt 1820
Birth Place: Illinois
Death Date: 7 May 1894*****
Age at Death: 74
Death Location: Olympia, Thurston, Washington
Residence: Olympia, Washington
Father: Stewart
Father's Birth Place: USA
Margaret Ruddell was one of the sixteen women "who were willing to put their names in the public sphere in favor of women's rights"(Shanna Stevenson, Historian) in the early days of the suffrage movement in Washington State. The other women were Mary O. Brown, Ann Bigelow, Sarah E. Chapman, Mehitabel H. Elder, Jane Wylie, J. B. Allen, C. A. Sands, Phoebe Moore, Mary A. Barnes, Mary Jane Baldwin, Susan Dofflemyer, Olive B. Manning, Clara M. Littlejohn, Jane Pattison, and A. R. Elliot.
Historic newspaper article read:
A Woman's Suffrage Convention will be held at Olympic Hall, Olympia, W. T., Nov. 8, 1871, at 10:00 a.m. The friend of Woman's Suffrage from all parts of Washington and Oregon are cordially invited to be present and participate in the deliberations. The object of this convention is to arrange some plan by which to secure concert of action among the woman voters of the Territory. Miss Susan B. Anthony and Mrs. A. J. Duniway will be present.
The New Northwest
October 27, 1871
Her marker has the year 1893, but a notice about her funeral taking place on Tuesday, May 8, 1894, was published in the Morning Olympian on Wednesday, May 9, 1894.
Washington, U.S., Death Records, 1883-1960
Name: M M Ruddell [M M Stewart]
Birth Date: abt 1820
Birth Place: Illinois
Death Date: 7 May 1894*****
Age at Death: 74
Death Location: Olympia, Thurston, Washington
Residence: Olympia, Washington
Father: Stewart
Father's Birth Place: USA
Margaret Ruddell was one of the sixteen women "who were willing to put their names in the public sphere in favor of women's rights"(Shanna Stevenson, Historian) in the early days of the suffrage movement in Washington State. The other women were Mary O. Brown, Ann Bigelow, Sarah E. Chapman, Mehitabel H. Elder, Jane Wylie, J. B. Allen, C. A. Sands, Phoebe Moore, Mary A. Barnes, Mary Jane Baldwin, Susan Dofflemyer, Olive B. Manning, Clara M. Littlejohn, Jane Pattison, and A. R. Elliot.
Historic newspaper article read:
A Woman's Suffrage Convention will be held at Olympic Hall, Olympia, W. T., Nov. 8, 1871, at 10:00 a.m. The friend of Woman's Suffrage from all parts of Washington and Oregon are cordially invited to be present and participate in the deliberations. The object of this convention is to arrange some plan by which to secure concert of action among the woman voters of the Territory. Miss Susan B. Anthony and Mrs. A. J. Duniway will be present.
The New Northwest
October 27, 1871
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