Congratulations to the Frankfort Suffrage Women Cemetery Project members! A donation of $10,000 has been given to the Frankfort Cemetery to support the project to identify and honor suffrage leaders buried in the Frankfort Cemetery. Bronze medallions, designed by Sallie Clay Lanham, great granddaughter of Mary Barr Clay, have been placed at the gravesites of twenty-five women and men buried in the Frankfort Cemetery.
Bronze medallions, designed by Sallie Clay Lanham, great granddaughter of Mary Barr Clay, have been placed at the gravesites of twenty-five suffragists buried in the Frankfort Cemetery. Initiated by Mary Ann Burch, the Frankfort Suffrage Women Cemetery Project has been brought to reality with support of modern Frankfort women advocates for women’s rights and equality.
These Frankfort activists below will be honored with a bronze medallion at their gravesites in the Frankfort Cemetery, thanks to the leadership of Mary Ann Burch. At 9:00 AM on August 21, you can participate in a one hour guided tour. Transportation provided via Frankfort Trolley. Register at the Cemetery office, 215 E Main St, Frankfort, KY 40601. Download the (.pdf) brochure of the tour here.
Rose E. Edwards Sower was an active member of the Franklin County Equal Rights Association, and she held many different offices in the Kentucky Equal Rights Association. In 1916 she was appointed the Kentucky member of the Publicity Committee for the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She was also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
An image of Rose E. Edwards Sower (22 August 1878 - 29 November 1930) shared by her descendant John Sower of Frankfort to support the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project here on H-Kentucky network and the campaign led by Mary Ann Burch to commemorate suffragists buried in the Frankfort Cemetery.
Rebecca Gordon Averill (18 January 1862 - 21 October 1941) was born in Frankfort and lived all her life there. She was the eldest child of Jane Julian Page (1838-1882) and William Henry Averill (1834-1904).
