Image for National Votes for Women Trail marker for Mary Barr Clay - located at White Hall State Historic Site, 500 White Hall Shrine Road, Richmond KY @37.8331337,-84.3548585
The marker content states: "Mary Barr Clay childhood home. Pres., Amer. Woman Suffrage Assoc. 1883. Addressed U.S. House of Reps. in support of women's suffrage 1884. (William C. Pomeroy Foundation 2018, [marker no.] 3)"
This just in from Deirdre Scaggs, Associate Dean, Special Collections Research Center; Director of the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center, University of Kentucky Libraries:
Jessie Leigh Hutchinson (1878-1932) grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, and when she married E. L. Hutchinson in 1901 she came with him to live in Lexington. Their home was at 631 East Main Street. She served as Vice President of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association in 1907, 1912-15, and in 1917.
Title: "Votes for Women a Success: the Map Proves It"
Publisher: Licking Valley Courier, Vol. 6, No. 11, page 3 (via Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.)
Date: November 11, 1915
Title: Laura Clay and group marching for the Madison, Fayette, and Franklin Kentucky Equal Rights Association, at Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, [n.d.], , [n.d.].
Publisher: Laura Clay Photographic Collection, Box 1, item 3. University of Kentucky, Lexington KY.
See details on the photo in the Kentuckiana Digital Library's catalog: http://kdl.kyvl.org/catalog/xt7sbc3svg22_1_4.
Henrietta Earle “Ettie” Bronston Chenault was born in 1835 in Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky to Thomas Springer Bronston, Sr. and Lucy Ann Wilson Clark. On July 22, 1856, she married Dr. Robert Cameron Chenault, medical doctor and superintendent of the Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, later Eastern State Hospital, in Lexington.Together, they had six children, four of whom survived to adulthood: Dr. Emily Runyon, Mary Etta Bowmar, Pearl Evans Thum Drew, and Robert Chenault.
Soon after Susan B. Anthony toured Kentucky in October 1879 and only a year after her divorce from Cassius M. Clay, Mary Jane Warfield Clay with her elder daughters -- Mary Barr Clay (also divorced) and Sallie Clay Bennett -- gathered signatures in Lexington and Richmond for a suffrage petition to be sent to Washington D.C.
