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Ida Jones and Ione Boyle
Ida Jones and Ione Boyle
Ellis Erginbright and Ida Jones
Ellis Erginbright and Ida Jones
Bonnie Waggoner
Bonnie Waggoner
Imogene Cash
Imogene Cash
Mildred Potts
Mildred Potts
Mildred P.
Mildred P.
Three Women with a Child
Three unidentified women standing with a child
Mrs. Josephene C. Adams
Mrs. Josephene C. Adams, wife of Colonel W. H. Adams, manager of Arminius Mines, Mineral, VA
Kate C. Hambleton Foster
Kate C. Hambleton Foster
Pyrite Mine Women
Unidentified women associated with the Mineral Pyrite Mines
Nurse
Unidentified Nurse
Church Incarnation
Two women standing in front of the door of a church.
Mrs. Kate Butler
Kate Towsey Butler wife of John Hugh Butler
The Scottish Suffragettes - Christian Guild
In 1904, at the age of 43 and with her husband and seven children, Christian Guild left her homeland of Scotland to immigrate to the United States. When she reached Dabneys, Louisa County, Virginia, she became actively involved in an attempt to start…
Leon Luxford Loyall
Leon Luxford Loyall, from Willowbrook, Louisa County, Virginia, is one of many individuals to join the Equal Suffrage League. He was born on November 1, 1876 and is noted as being a teacher at the time he registered to vote in 1902. He married Ada…
Westend: Country Inn
The brochure for the country inn run by Nancy and Lucy: "The Misses Taylor" of Westend. Their mother, Mary Minor Watson Taylor, specified in her that her unmarried children should have a life interest in Westend.
The girls' mother and father,…
The girls' mother and father,…
Lucille Holt
Lucille Holt, born in 1883, became an influential woman in early twentieth century Louisa County. Born with a light skin tone, she was sometimes seen as a white woman and other times as a black woman. In 1916, Lucille Holt was appointed the first…
The five daughters of Henry Taylor
Likely the five daughters of Henry Taylor II of Westmoreland County, who married Mary Minor Watson Taylor of Westend. They lived at Montrose for several years before moving out to Westend, where they raised nine children. The five daughters are…
Virginia Syndor on Race Horse
Virginia (Taylor) Syndor, a niece of Lucy Taylor's, is shown here racing horses in her late 20s or early 30s. She writes of spending her childhood days at Westend Farm with her Aunt Lucy, who was like a "second mother" to her. She also remembers…