NAWSA GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Clay, Mary B. 1906 Richmond Ky. April 12th 1906 Dear Miss Alice, I enclose a program of memorial service held in honor of Miss Anthony by our association on Mar. 22d: also one from Nicholasville. All the Ky. societies passed resolutions of love and respect to Miss Anthony. I hope you and my dear Mr. Blackwell are well. I hope to get a number of subscribers for the Woman's Journal this summer, and also for the Progress, and also add a number of names to our roll throughout the State. With best wishes for both of you, I am yours truly Mary B. Clay. 1st Vice Pres. of Ky. C.R. Asso. P.S. I forgot to mention that we got the Age of consent raised to 16 years in Ky. Also a chair of Domestic Science, and a woman to fill the chair in the State College in Scs. My Bill for Equal [Co] Guardianship of Mother with Father failed, but we will try it again next winter. Woman Suffrage in local [Option?] was discussed, but defeated, but helped to agitate the subject. Yrs M. [*Mary B. Clay*] [*1906*] National American Woman Suffrage Association MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN Honorary President, Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N.Y. President, Rev. Anna Howard Shaw 7443 Devon Street, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pa. Vice President at Large, Florence Kelley, 105 East 22nd Street, New York City. Corresponding Secretary, Kate M. Gordon 1800 Prytania Street, New Orleans, La. Recording Secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass Treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren, Ohio. Auditors: Laura Clay, Lexington Ky. Dr. Annice Jeffrey Myers, 375 East 12th St., N., Portland, Ore. Chairman Press Committee, Elnora M. Babcock, Dunkirk, N. Y. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, WARREN, OHIO OFFICE OF [?] THE FIRST AUDITOR A memorial service was held in Richmond Ky at the residence of Mrs. Mary B. Clay in honor of Miss Anthony on Mar 22d by the Madison Co. Equal Rights Association. This is the first association organized in the South unless New Orleans preceded it. It was organised in 1875 by Mary B. Clay, Sara Clay Bennett and [eight] six other ladies, five of whom answered to the roll call on Mar 22d at this service. A large picture of Miss Anthony was placed in the center of the parlers draped in yellow cloth and black crape. On the easel was a little candle in a pink rose candle stick, which was lit on the eightieth Birthday cake in Washington Feb 15th 1900. At the Celebration of that occasion of Miss Anthony's birthday. The following poems read in this program were written for that occasion to Miss Anthony, and sent to Mrs. Clay by her, with a sentiment and two pictures one at fifty years one at eighty, valued treasures they are. In a table opposite was a smaller photo of Miss Anthony, surrounded by pictures of Mr. Blackwell Lucy Stone and Alice Stone Blackwell, Mrs. Stanton Mrs. Blatch and daughter, and Isabelle Beecher Hooker. over Program as follows Mrs Clay presiding; Prayer Rev. Marshall. Resolutions of respect and love. Mrs Amanda Millien Roll call of Pioneer members. Mrs Lucy McCann A sketch of Miss Anthony's early days. Mrs. Judge A.R. Burnam A poem Mrs Stanton to Susan. Mrs Martha Tribble. A Sketch of later work for humanity. Mrs Sallie Ward. A Poem by Miss Carey. Miss Sara Burnam. Her last work in Baltimore and Washington. Mrs Kati Wiggins. Love’s Rosary by Lydia Avery Coonley Ward. Miss Helen Bennett. - sing Nearer my God to thee. Benediction Rev. Marshall Mary B Clay Richmond Ky Memorial [Le???] March 22/1906 Feb 15th 1907 My dear Miss Shaw and Ladies of the Convention, Allow me to express, as one of your comrades my earnest interest in the proceedings of this National Convention and hope that your consultations may prove to be on just the lines of work that may bring us final victory! I regret very much that I cannot be with you, to do my part, there, but since 1875 I have never lost interest nor failed to talk and work for this great cause. So many of the group I used to meet have laid down their burdens before entering into the promised land, but they have made a good fight, and kept the faith, and gone to their award, so we who are left must carry on this as well as our own burdens, to the end that America may yet be a true Democracy of "Equal Rights to all special privileges to none," and not as it is now an Oligarchy of males! May God hasten the day! With warmest greetings to the ladies and friends in Convention I am yours for freedom Mary B. Clay 1st Vice Pres Ky C.R. Asso. Richmond Ky. Letter for Mary B Clay Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.