Vote on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024

Vote: No matter what your political views are, it is of the utmost importance for you to vote on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024 and on every Election Day. If you are a woman, this right is something that was granted to you a mere 124 years ago.

After I was done stitching this pattern, I decided to dedicate it to my great grandmothers (at least one is a 7x great grandmother) who were never given the opportunity to vote. The first on the list, Mary Jane McConnell Milliken was a Revolutionary War Patriot who risked her life for the cause, giving water, blankets, and food to soldiers, yet like all women she wasn’t allowed to vote. I may have missed a few, but here are some of the women in my family that weren’t able to vote. All lived in the United States of America after the Revolutionary War:

Mary Jane McConnell Milliken 1747-1815
Martha H. Pembroke Ross 1720-1781
Jane Anne James Ross 1736-1799
Hannah Johnson Taylor 1735-1776
Ruth Taylor Bailey 1758-1806
Lydia Miller Johnson 1751-1825
Elizabeth Richard’s Johnson
Mary Polly VanWinkle Hayden 1757-1850
Sara Sally Allen Hayden 1789-1871
Anna Marie Brandenburg 1726-1809
Mary Miller Miller Shively 1775 - ?
Jenny Grimes Shipley 1754-1861
Elizabeth Bowman Hall 1748-1820
Margareta Countryman Marker 1750-1800
Phoebe David Carter 1754 - ?
Mary Ann Davis 1729-1795
Susan Hulgal Dotts
Jane Robinson Brown 1796-1882
Anna C. Schreyein 1718-1778
Rachel Bowell Ross 1781-1857
Hannah Johnson Baily 1780-1820
Rachel Milliken Pryor 1785-
Catherine Rutan Sanders 1785-1867
Nancy Hayden Pipes 1809-1846
Julia Flowers Brown 1826-1867
Mary Jane Busby Walker 1817-1900
Nancy Ross Phillians 1774-1833
Susan Jones Dunlap ? - 1831
Elizabeth Keller Seever 1791-1857
Susanna Mitchell Horner 1775-?
Elizabeth Marker Shipley 1811-1892
Elizabeth Woodward Haught 1837 -?
Martha Jane Hall Shipley 1785-1863
Jane Sloan Marker 1786-1869
Sarah Stephens Hall 1763-1799
Abigail Franks Haught 1810-1895
Abigail A. Schmidt Franks 1767-1845
Barbara Bradenburg Franks 1741-1839
Mary Ann Wilson Woodward 1816-1891
Mary Carter Woodward 1778-1854
Mary J. Ferguson 1770-1832
Mahlah Gardiner Garbart 1796-1880
Nancy Bennett Unks 1789-1859
Eleanor Aula Powers 1726-1803
Eleanor Bedell Rutan 17459-1842
Catherine Leikughler Aungst 1764-1804
Mary Hathaway Linton 1748-1804
Kessiah Outerbridge Flowers 1778-1849
Nancy Ann Linton Flowers 1795-1861
Elizabeth Bailey Ross 1812-1897
Rebecca Anderson Pryor 1822-1885
Delilah Pipes Sanders 1838-1912
Levinia Dotts Williams 1821-1906
Amelia Walker Brown 1848-1904
Margaret Price Bush Hamer 1849-1921 (she would have been able to vote one time.)
Petrona Stevenkis Balsis ? - 1903
Elizabeth Murphy 1824-1883
Elizabeth Seever Dunlap 1825-1907
Martha Jane Mobley Horner 1842-1882
Nancy Shively Horner 1799-1839
Sarah Miller Mobley 1817-1899
Mary Abigail Haught Shipley 1855-1912
Elizabeth Marker Shipley 1811-1892
Leah Miller Ferguson 1805-1850
Susan Unks Garbart 1828-1906

The Suffrage Act cross stitch commemorates the 19th Amendment of 1920 and honors the suffragettes who fought long and hard for this right. The final stitches were completed on October 27, 2024, just nine days prior to the November 5, 2024 Presidential Election. The design, which I altered, is by Little House Needleworks, stitched on 32 count Vintage Country Mocha Belfast linen by Zweigart with the called for DMC cotton threads. It will eventually be properly framed.

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