Palmer, Rhoda

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Rhoda Palmer
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Female
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    Family
    Asa Palmer (father), Abigail Wooden Palmer (mother)
    Occupation
    Writer or Artist
    Church or Religious Denomination
    Quakers (Society of Friends)
    Other Affiliations
    Women’s Rights

    Rhoda Palmer (New York Times)

    Obituary
    Miss Rhoda Palmer Dies at 103.
    ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 11.—The death is announced near Geneva, N.Y., of Miss Rhoda Palmer, aged 103 years, reputed to be the oldest suffragist in Western New York.  Miss Palmer was a member of the first suffrages convention in Seneca Falls in 1848.  At the last election Miss Palmer was driven to the polls and cast her first vote.
    "Miss Rhoda Palmer," New York Times, August 12, 1919, p. 9: 6.
    How to Cite This Page: "Palmer, Rhoda," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6343.