Nettie C Hall 1841 1908 Mother Enterprise Fountain Detail Fitzgerald Ben Hill County GA Copyright Brian Brown Vanishing South Georgia
Vanishing Georgia: Photographs by Brian Brown
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An interesting woman: milliner, physician, pharmacist, temperance advocate, suffragist, newspaper woman – widowed twice. Both husbands were Civil War veterans and her only child died in a railroad accident. She moved to Fitzgerald, Georgia, in 1896 and became a newspaper editor after living in South Dakota where she crossed the state organizing and lecturing on equal suffrage and temperance. She was likely the first woman elected to office in Dakota Territory when she won a seat in a school board election in 1887 (before North and South Dakota became states). Would love to discover more of her history.