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Sue Shelton White committee members celebrated the 99th anniversary of Tennessee’s ratification of the 19th Amendment on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019, at Jackson City Hall. Pictured are (l-r) Ginger Terry, Mayor Scott Conger, sculptor Wanda Stanfill, and Jacque Hillman, committee chair. The new granite marker has been placed in front of the statue with donor names and the wording of the 19th Amendment.

TN Ratification Document

Tyler Boyd and Sarah Hurley visited the TN Woman Suffrage Monument in Centennial Park earlier this summer (2019). Tyler is the great-grand-nephew of Harry Burn, who was in the 1920 special session of the Tennessee legislature and cast the deciding vote for the 19th Amendment’s ratification. He has written a book about his great-grand-uncle that can be ordered by clicking on this link: https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781467143189

The Beasley Family honoring “Aunt Cord” by her historical marker in Camden at Benton County Courthouse on April 22, 2019. She was the first woman to legally vote on April 22, 1919.

Link: Tennessee women have voted with pride for 100 years

Knox County League of Women Voters celebrate at the newly unveiled Burn Memorial in downtown Knoxville on June 9, 2018.

Twins Abbay and Phoebe Wallace, second graders at Campus School in Memphis, hold their poster and photograph of their great-great-great-grandmother, Memphis suffragist Mamie Duffy Willingham. This is what’s in Mrs. Willingham’s obituary: “When Carrie Chapman Catt fired women with dreams of voting, Mrs.

Willingham was a member of the suffrage group here, and escorted by “stunning police officers”

—- led the group’s first parade down Main.” This was written on October 15, 1952.