Christopher Padgett, president of the Kentucky Genealogical Society (KYGS) announced this year's recipients of the KYGS Digitization Grants. Four out of fiften applications submitted in November 2022 received funding:
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)"
Kentucky History Podcast County History Search
The Kentucky History Podcast is on a campaign to document the history of each county in Kentucky.
Topics include: First settlers, cities, towns, communities, churches, sports, and big events.
We're asking the history community to help us find people who currently live or are from each county and are interseted in being on the podcast for each county of Kentucky. Currently we have already covered Rockcaste, Garrard, and Lincoln County.
Mary Caroline Creegan Roark (1 September 1861 - 1 February 1922) was born just south of Brighton, Iowa, on a family farm in Walnut Township, Jefferson County, Iowa, the daughter of Mary Ann McKee Creegan, of Ohio and Daniel Creegan, a farmer from Virginia.
Badge with handwritten label "Mrs. Grant Lilly" and yellow ribbon stamped with "Kentucky Suffrage Convention." Image courtesy of Jackie Couture, archivist. This item is part of the Lilly Family Papers, Eastern Kentucky University Special Collections and Archives, Richmond, KY.
Photograph of Mary Barr Clay (1839-1924) perhaps sometime in the 1870s when she was starting up her career as a suffragist - she was named after her maternal grandmother, Mary Barr Warfield. See her KWSP biosketch here: https://networks.h-net.org/node/2289/discussions/154189/mary-barr-clay
Portrait of Laura Clay (1849-1941) when she was probably in her 30s - currently hanging at White Hall in Richmond, Kentucky. The portrait was done by her friend and fellow suffragist, Laura Sutton Bruce.
Belle Harris Bennett, circa 1909 - original image caption: "Miss Belle H. Bennett when she began public service for the Woman's Missionary Society"
Image clipped from page165 of
MacDonell, Mrs. Robert W. Belle Harris Bennett: Her Life Work (Nashville, TN: The Woman's Section of the Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1928).
Photograph of Belle Harris Bennett (3 December 1852 – 20 July 1922) of Richmond, Kentucky. Photograph - created by J.C. Elrod's Galleries (Nos. 142 and 144 Main Street, Louisville, and Main Street, Frankfort) - hand dated on back June 3, 1878, probably collected by her girlhood friend, Kate Helm.
Image of Susan Ann Bennett (1843-1891 snipped from p 83 of:
MacDonnell, Mrs. Robert W. Belle Harris Bennett: Her Life Work. Nashville, TN: The Woman's Section of the Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1928. Available online via Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/belleharrisbenne01macd
