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A Woman of the Century:   A Crowdsourcing Project of the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries

Tennessee

Bethesda, Williamson County, TN

EAST, Mrs. Edward H.

March 15, 1849

philanthropist

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p. 270

Grantlands, TN

MURFREE, Mary Moailles

January 24, 1850

novelist

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p. 530

Greeneville, TN

SAXON, Mrs. Elizabeth Lyle

December 2, 1832

woman suffragist

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p. 634-635

Jonesborough, TN

CUMMINS, Mrs. Mary Stuart

May 31, 1854

educator

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p. 220

Lavergne, TN

THOMAS, Mrs. Mary Ann

January 10, 1841

journalist

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p. 711-712

Leesburg, Washington County, TN

JOHNSON, Mrs. Eliza McCardle

October 4, 1810

wife of Andrew Johnson, seventeenth President of the United States

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p. 422

Memphis, TN

CONWAY, Miss Clara

August 14, 1844

educator

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p. 201-202

Memphis, TN

DAVIS, Mrs. Virginia Meriwether

April 18, 1862

doctor of medicine

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o. 235

Monroe County, TN

WARE, Mrs. Mary

April 11, 1828

poet

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p. 748-749

Murfreesboro, TN

POLK, Mrs. Sarah Childress

September 4, 1803

wife of James K. Polk

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p. 577-578

Nashville, TN

CHEATHAM, Miss Kitty Smiley

July 25, 1864

actor

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p. 170

Nashville, TN

KEATING, Mrs. Josephine E.

1838

literary critic, musician and music teacher

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p. 429-430

Nashville, TN

REED, Mrs. Caroline Keating

pianist

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p. 601

Nashville, TN

RENO,  Mrs. Itti Kinney

May 17, 1862

novelist and social leader

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p. 604-605

Nashville, TN

WORLEY, Mrs. Laura Davis

August 1849

dairy farmer

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p. 802

Tennessee

Pruitt, Mrs. Willie Franklin

January 11, 1860

poet

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p. 590-591

Trenton, TN

FRY, Mrs. Elizabeth Turner

December 22, 1842

philanthropist

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p. 304-305

Tennessee