Picking Lint

From the Manual of the Civil War ...

An explanation of picking lint.

Suffragettes & The Right To Vote In Detroit

From the Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony Papers Project - Women Who Voted:

Catharine Stebbins and Mrs. H. J. Boutelle tried to register to vote in the 5th Ward. Nannette Gardner voted in the 9th Ward.WJ, 22 Nov. 1873.

From History of Woman Suffrage: 1876-1885:

The Nannette B. E. Gardner papers are housed at the Bentley Library at the University of Michigan.

Also from History of Woman Suffrage: 1876-1885:

...Mrs. Giles B. (Catherine) Stebbins has applied to this board and demands the right to register.....

Mr. & Mrs. Stebbins were living in Detroit in 1900 on Pitcher Street. Giles B. Stebbins, lecturer and writer, son of Eldad & Lydia (Fitch) Stebbins, died 31 Oct 1900 in Detroit, Michigan. Catherine Stebbins died in 1904 and is buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY. [Catherine A.F. Stebbins in a group photo can be seen here]

Mrs. (Harriet J.) Boutelle was also mentioned in the History of Woman Suffrage:


From the hand book of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (1908):

Mr. A(lexander) A. Boutelle* and his daughter, Miss (Alace) May Boutelle early in November gave $100 to the state treasury in memory of the late Harriet J. Boutelle**, who for many years was one of the foremost and ablest workers for woman suffrage Michigan ever had.

*Alexander A. Boutelle, a Civil War veteran, died Nov 15, 1913 (in Atlantic City)
**nee Harriet J. Carpenter; with her parents, Horace & Jane Ann Carpenter in 1850 & 1860. She died 11 December 1906 in Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan.

2010 - Women have had the right to vote for 90 years
(19th Amendment ratified August 18, 1920)

The "Nancy Harts" of LaGrange

When the men were engaged in the Civil War, some of the Confederate women organized the "Nancy Harts," defending their homes.

Staying With The Acklen Theme....

When her (Sallie Ann Ewing Sims Carter Gault) cousin-in-law, Adelicia Acklen’s husband (Joseph Acklen) died in Louisiana in 1863, her huge cotton crop was in danger of being burned by the Confederates to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Federals. Adelicia was desperate. She confided with Sallie Carter, then thirty-seven. Sallie agreed to go to Louisiana with Adelicia to see if they could somehow save the cotton. The two widows undertook the dangerous and seemingly impossible task in early 1864, traveling through the lines of both armies to reach Adelicia’s Angola Plantation. Adelicia’s strength failed after they reached Louisiana in March, but they found an elderly gentleman who was willing to act as Mrs. Carter’s guide. After traveling 150 miles over mud roads in a mule-drawn carriage seven or eight times in an effort to get Confederate authorities to give her a permit to remove Adelicia’s cotton to the river and from there to ship it to New Orleans. There, the new Orleans firm of W. A. Johnson sold 1,118 bales for $353,743 while the remaining bales were shipped to Liverpool, England where the Rothchilds bought them. Adelicia and Sallie returned to Nashville via New York having spent eight months in Louisiana and eight days at sea. The trip was well worth it, at least to Adelicia. She supposedly received $960,000 in gold for her cotton crop. [From: http://www.clanewing.org/JoV4.htm]

Adelicia Acklen’s Angola Plantation then (near top of map):
















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