Chronicles of Boone County

Women of Boone County

Notable Boone County women

• Mary Beckley Bristow, diarist
• Mary Bess Cropper, world traveler
• Julia Stockton Dinsmore, planter and poet
• Margaret Garner, the basis for Beloved
• Isabella Selmes Greenway, U.S. Congresswoman
• Evelyn Kalb, first female mayor of Florence. Ky
• Sophia Webster Lloyd, teacher and poet
• Lula Mae Sleet, Army Signal Corps draftswoman
• Jane Stephens, enslaved mother
• Kittie Ella Utz, diarist
• Glenrose Williams, first female Sheriff of Boone County, Ky
• Henrietta Woods, free woman of color

Women's organizations

• Woman's Literary Club (Walton, Ky.)
• Wa-Na Woman's Club (Walton, Ky.)

More information

• "Votes for Women" by Hillary Delaney [PDF]

Online exhibits

• 'Legacy of Enslaved Mothers'
• 'Making HERstory: Celebrating 100 Years of Women's Suffrage, 1920-2020'