She was born Jeanette Mary Francis de Assisi Aloysius Narcissus Garfield Bell to Mr. and Mrs. George Bell in Ashland, Kentucky in 1882. She earned the nickname "Traipsin' Woman" when, as a teenager in the 1890s, she defied convention to attend business school, learn stenography, and become a court reporter, traveling by jolt wagon to courts in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. Her travels from county to county were said to involve "considerable spells of traipsin'". Creator of The American Folk Song Festival.
She was born Jeanette Mary Francis de Assisi Aloysius Narcissus Garfield Bell to Mr. and Mrs. George Bell in Ashland, Kentucky in 1882. She earned the nickname "Traipsin' Woman" when, as a teenager in the 1890s, she defied convention to attend business school, learn stenography, and become a court reporter, traveling by jolt wagon to courts in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. Her travels from county to county were said to involve "considerable spells of traipsin'". Creator of The American Folk Song Festival.
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Jean Thomas Nov 1882 - 7 Dec 1982
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