The National Collaborative for Women's History Sites (NCWHS) is leading the effort to develop a National Votes for Women Trail (NVWT), originally as a part of the celebrations commemorating the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Image for National Votes for Women Trail marker for Josephine K. Henry - located at 210 Montgomery Avenue, Versailles KY 40383 @38.0478437, -84.7283552
The marker content states: "Josephine Henry 1843-1928. Home of suffragist, author, orator and teacher who lobbied for equal rights for all women. (William C. Pomeroy Foundation 2019, [marker no.] 2)."
Image for National Votes for Women Trail marker for Eugenia B. Farmer - located at Trinity Episcopal Church, 326 Madison Avenue, Covington KY @39.0874177,-84.5807303
The marker content states: "Eugenia B. Farmer statewide suffrage leader. Led fight for women's school suffrage in Ky. Helped host state suffrage conventon here in 1897. (William C. Pomeroy Foundation 2021, [marker no.] 113)
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)"
Mary Reddig Cramer (1847-1915) of Lexington was a Vice President of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association from 1892 to 1913. She was also a member of the Woman's Club of Central Kentucky and the Kentucky chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She attended many of the conventions of the National American Woman Suffrage Association between 1893 and 1912. This image was supplied to H-Kentucky for the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project by Walt Cramer, her great-grandson.
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.
Georgia Anne Nugent (15 May 1873 – 28 November 1940), first president of the Kentucky Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, served as an officer in the National Association of Colored Women. She taught for more than forty years in the segregated Louisville public school system, volunteered as a Baptist Sunday-school teacher for half a century, and participated in many charity works and fundraising campaigns for the community.
An organizer for the National American Woman Suffrage Association hired by the Kentucky Equal Rights Association (KERA), Lily Ray Glenn came to Hopkinsville on April 16th during her 1914 tour across Kentucky to help start local chapters of the KERA. Much of her success was probably due to the fact that her father was from Todd County and she could make personal connections with Kentuckians. Before the large audience in the new Avalon assembly hall, Judge W.P.
