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.
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