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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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