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TNNurse

(7,550 posts)
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 06:47 PM Aug 2025

Tennessee certainly has issues.

But today we celebrate Febb Burn. A woman who told her son Harry who was in the TN Assembly how to vote and he did. That vote ratified the 19th Amendment. He was 22 years old.

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Tennessee certainly has issues. (Original Post) TNNurse Aug 2025 OP
I'd never heard if this. Great story. underpants Aug 2025 #1
The family owns a sock company in TN TNNurse Aug 2025 #2
Harry Burn was a good son surfered Aug 2025 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m Aug 2025 #4

TNNurse

(7,550 posts)
2. The family owns a sock company in TN
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 08:48 PM
Aug 2025

Febb's great-granddaughters own and run it in Niota, TN. "Febb's Boutique". I own a pair of the crew socks which have yellow roses a symbol of the suffragette movement.

In today's political climate you have to remember and celebrate that people have done good things.

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