Eulalie Chaffee Salley was born in Augusta, Georgia, on December 11, 1883, the daughter of Marguerite Eulalie Gamble and George Kinloch Chafee. Her father was in the kaolin (porcelain clay) business, and her mother was an accomplished pianist and product of one of Baltimore’s finest finishing schools.
When death came Saturday to Mrs Eulalie Salley at the age of 91, it brought to an end the life of an Augusta native whose wide range of career and public activities served to inspire every person who had felt her influence.
In many respects, Mrs Salley was a most unusual person. After her marriage in 1906 to Aiken attorney Julian B Salley, she developed a vital concern for the status of women under the law. She traveled extensively through the South and the Nation, promoting the merits of women's suffrage. She saw that dream happily realized, with ratification of the 19th amendment to the Constitution in 1919.
To fund her suffrage work, Salley applied for and received a real estate license in 1915, becoming the first woman realtor in the state. She undertook with unselfish enthusiasm and dedicated zeal to build a realty business in Aiken, which she maintained virtually until her last days. She became widely known in the 1920s and '30s for the beautiful and sprawling properties which she acquired and developed for prominent Aikenites. It was fitting recognition, therefore, when historian Emily Bull recently published a book dealing with Mrs Salley's experiences with many wealthy families and international personages who came to Aiken as winter residents.
The same charm and personality which brought Mrs Salley recognition in business also was manifested in her social activities during her long life. The Central Savannah River Area has suffered a great loss in her death, but it is a more progressive and culturally advanced region for her having been a part of it.
Ever the individualist, South Carolina’s “First Lady of Real Estate” insisted on burial, not with her husband, but in a “secondhand section” of St. Thaddeus Episcopal Cemetery, with only a single white camellia to mark her remains.
Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, GA)
Mar 11, 1975
section A
page 4
When death came Saturday to Mrs Eulalie Salley at the age of 91, it brought to an end the life of an Augusta native whose wide range of career and public activities served to inspire every person who had felt her influence.
In many respects, Mrs Salley was a most unusual person. After her marriage in 1906 to Aiken attorney Julian B Salley, she developed a vital concern for the status of women under the law. She traveled extensively through the South and the Nation, promoting the merits of women's suffrage. She saw that dream happily realized, with ratification of the 19th amendment to the Constitution in 1919.
To fund her suffrage work, Salley applied for and received a real estate license in 1915, becoming the first woman realtor in the state. She undertook with unselfish enthusiasm and dedicated zeal to build a realty business in Aiken, which she maintained virtually until her last days. She became widely known in the 1920s and '30s for the beautiful and sprawling properties which she acquired and developed for prominent Aikenites. It was fitting recognition, therefore, when historian Emily Bull recently published a book dealing with Mrs Salley's experiences with many wealthy families and international personages who came to Aiken as winter residents.
The same charm and personality which brought Mrs Salley recognition in business also was manifested in her social activities during her long life. The Central Savannah River Area has suffered a great loss in her death, but it is a more progressive and culturally advanced region for her having been a part of it.
Ever the individualist, South Carolina’s “First Lady of Real Estate” insisted on burial, not with her husband, but in a “secondhand section” of St. Thaddeus Episcopal Cemetery, with only a single white camellia to mark her remains.
Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, GA)
Mar 11, 1975
section A
page 4
Eulalie Chaffee Salley was born in Augusta, Georgia, on December 11, 1883, the daughter of Marguerite Eulalie Gamble and George Kinloch Chafee. Her father was in the kaolin (porcelain clay) business, and her mother was an accomplished pianist and product of one of Baltimore’s finest finishing schools.
When death came Saturday to Mrs Eulalie Salley at the age of 91, it brought to an end the life of an Augusta native whose wide range of career and public activities served to inspire every person who had felt her influence.
In many respects, Mrs Salley was a most unusual person. After her marriage in 1906 to Aiken attorney Julian B Salley, she developed a vital concern for the status of women under the law. She traveled extensively through the South and the Nation, promoting the merits of women's suffrage. She saw that dream happily realized, with ratification of the 19th amendment to the Constitution in 1919.
To fund her suffrage work, Salley applied for and received a real estate license in 1915, becoming the first woman realtor in the state. She undertook with unselfish enthusiasm and dedicated zeal to build a realty business in Aiken, which she maintained virtually until her last days. She became widely known in the 1920s and '30s for the beautiful and sprawling properties which she acquired and developed for prominent Aikenites. It was fitting recognition, therefore, when historian Emily Bull recently published a book dealing with Mrs Salley's experiences with many wealthy families and international personages who came to Aiken as winter residents.
The same charm and personality which brought Mrs Salley recognition in business also was manifested in her social activities during her long life. The Central Savannah River Area has suffered a great loss in her death, but it is a more progressive and culturally advanced region for her having been a part of it.
Ever the individualist, South Carolina’s “First Lady of Real Estate” insisted on burial, not with her husband, but in a “secondhand section” of St. Thaddeus Episcopal Cemetery, with only a single white camellia to mark her remains.
Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, GA)
Mar 11, 1975
section A
page 4
When death came Saturday to Mrs Eulalie Salley at the age of 91, it brought to an end the life of an Augusta native whose wide range of career and public activities served to inspire every person who had felt her influence.
In many respects, Mrs Salley was a most unusual person. After her marriage in 1906 to Aiken attorney Julian B Salley, she developed a vital concern for the status of women under the law. She traveled extensively through the South and the Nation, promoting the merits of women's suffrage. She saw that dream happily realized, with ratification of the 19th amendment to the Constitution in 1919.
To fund her suffrage work, Salley applied for and received a real estate license in 1915, becoming the first woman realtor in the state. She undertook with unselfish enthusiasm and dedicated zeal to build a realty business in Aiken, which she maintained virtually until her last days. She became widely known in the 1920s and '30s for the beautiful and sprawling properties which she acquired and developed for prominent Aikenites. It was fitting recognition, therefore, when historian Emily Bull recently published a book dealing with Mrs Salley's experiences with many wealthy families and international personages who came to Aiken as winter residents.
The same charm and personality which brought Mrs Salley recognition in business also was manifested in her social activities during her long life. The Central Savannah River Area has suffered a great loss in her death, but it is a more progressive and culturally advanced region for her having been a part of it.
Ever the individualist, South Carolina’s “First Lady of Real Estate” insisted on burial, not with her husband, but in a “secondhand section” of St. Thaddeus Episcopal Cemetery, with only a single white camellia to mark her remains.
Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, GA)
Mar 11, 1975
section A
page 4
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