Ellen Dorcas was the daughter of John Harn and Charlote (Hay) Harn. She was named Dorcas for her Grt-gm, Dorcas Davis Harn. She wrote a short auto-biography in her latter years, saying she had delicate health as a child, but thought now it was more from 'extreme inordinate bashfulness.' Reciting her letters was hard at first, but soon she was an avid learner and became an excellent student.
In the spring of 1849, she went to Baltimore to visit and there received a letter from her sister, Sarah Harn WILLIAMS, who was teaching at Cedar Hill Seminary that she would defray Ellen's expenses if she would come and teach. Thus, she began a teaching career that spanned over 40 years. She became a fighter for woman's rights for over 80 years. She moved to Kenesaw to be near her sister, Sarah, whose husband had come to work in establishing churches and publish church and other papers.
In 1873, Ellen began as one of the first school teachers of Kenesaw. In 1886, she built for herself a comfortable home on a ten-acre plot, part of the forty acres she owned. She said she paid $40 per acre. She took care of her garden, flowers, chickens and pets well into her nineties.
For six years she wrote a column in the Kenesaw Citizen, a local paper, principally on Temperance and Equal Sufferage. She told an incident as they were having an election, that she went into the polls and asked to vote, which caused the men to blush, fumble the papers, and finally, one gave her an answer. She thought it was funny.
After her sister, Sarah died, Mary H. Williams, her niece and daughter of her sister, Sarah, came back to Kenesaw and stayed with her Aunt Ellen. At the age of 91, in 1918, Ellen was one of the first ladies in the county to ride in an airplane.
She lived to the age of 101 years.
In the spring of 1849, she went to Baltimore to visit and there received a letter from her sister, Sarah Harn WILLIAMS, who was teaching at Cedar Hill Seminary that she would defray Ellen's expenses if she would come and teach. Thus, she began a teaching career that spanned over 40 years. She became a fighter for woman's rights for over 80 years. She moved to Kenesaw to be near her sister, Sarah, whose husband had come to work in establishing churches and publish church and other papers.
In 1873, Ellen began as one of the first school teachers of Kenesaw. In 1886, she built for herself a comfortable home on a ten-acre plot, part of the forty acres she owned. She said she paid $40 per acre. She took care of her garden, flowers, chickens and pets well into her nineties.
For six years she wrote a column in the Kenesaw Citizen, a local paper, principally on Temperance and Equal Sufferage. She told an incident as they were having an election, that she went into the polls and asked to vote, which caused the men to blush, fumble the papers, and finally, one gave her an answer. She thought it was funny.
After her sister, Sarah died, Mary H. Williams, her niece and daughter of her sister, Sarah, came back to Kenesaw and stayed with her Aunt Ellen. At the age of 91, in 1918, Ellen was one of the first ladies in the county to ride in an airplane.
She lived to the age of 101 years.
Ellen Dorcas was the daughter of John Harn and Charlote (Hay) Harn. She was named Dorcas for her Grt-gm, Dorcas Davis Harn. She wrote a short auto-biography in her latter years, saying she had delicate health as a child, but thought now it was more from 'extreme inordinate bashfulness.' Reciting her letters was hard at first, but soon she was an avid learner and became an excellent student.
In the spring of 1849, she went to Baltimore to visit and there received a letter from her sister, Sarah Harn WILLIAMS, who was teaching at Cedar Hill Seminary that she would defray Ellen's expenses if she would come and teach. Thus, she began a teaching career that spanned over 40 years. She became a fighter for woman's rights for over 80 years. She moved to Kenesaw to be near her sister, Sarah, whose husband had come to work in establishing churches and publish church and other papers.
In 1873, Ellen began as one of the first school teachers of Kenesaw. In 1886, she built for herself a comfortable home on a ten-acre plot, part of the forty acres she owned. She said she paid $40 per acre. She took care of her garden, flowers, chickens and pets well into her nineties.
For six years she wrote a column in the Kenesaw Citizen, a local paper, principally on Temperance and Equal Sufferage. She told an incident as they were having an election, that she went into the polls and asked to vote, which caused the men to blush, fumble the papers, and finally, one gave her an answer. She thought it was funny.
After her sister, Sarah died, Mary H. Williams, her niece and daughter of her sister, Sarah, came back to Kenesaw and stayed with her Aunt Ellen. At the age of 91, in 1918, Ellen was one of the first ladies in the county to ride in an airplane.
She lived to the age of 101 years.
In the spring of 1849, she went to Baltimore to visit and there received a letter from her sister, Sarah Harn WILLIAMS, who was teaching at Cedar Hill Seminary that she would defray Ellen's expenses if she would come and teach. Thus, she began a teaching career that spanned over 40 years. She became a fighter for woman's rights for over 80 years. She moved to Kenesaw to be near her sister, Sarah, whose husband had come to work in establishing churches and publish church and other papers.
In 1873, Ellen began as one of the first school teachers of Kenesaw. In 1886, she built for herself a comfortable home on a ten-acre plot, part of the forty acres she owned. She said she paid $40 per acre. She took care of her garden, flowers, chickens and pets well into her nineties.
For six years she wrote a column in the Kenesaw Citizen, a local paper, principally on Temperance and Equal Sufferage. She told an incident as they were having an election, that she went into the polls and asked to vote, which caused the men to blush, fumble the papers, and finally, one gave her an answer. She thought it was funny.
After her sister, Sarah died, Mary H. Williams, her niece and daughter of her sister, Sarah, came back to Kenesaw and stayed with her Aunt Ellen. At the age of 91, in 1918, Ellen was one of the first ladies in the county to ride in an airplane.
She lived to the age of 101 years.
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