'Here Lies a Suffragist': Election Day thanks to the pioneers

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Before Washington women gained the right to vote in 1910, Dr. Ida Noyes McIntire led meetings of the Everett Suffrage Club at her Colby Avenue medical clinic. On Tuesday, Election Day, her efforts were honored as visitors to her grave left touching reminders of a long, fierce struggle.

“I Voted” stickers, flowers, American flags and signs saying “Here Lies a Suffragist” were placed at two gravesites in Everett’s Evergreen Cemetery, where McIntire and Bessie Kline, another crusader for women’s voting rights, are buried. The tributes are part of a statewide effort, ThankHER2020, tied to the Washington State Historical Society’s Votes for Women Centennial.

Here, the Washington State Constitution was permanently amended to grant women the right to vote in 1910. But it wasn’t until 1919 that the U.S. Senate passed the 19th Amendment. Nationally, women won the constitutional right to vote in August 1920, after three-quarters of state legislatures had ratified the 19th Amendment.

“I’ve always been really passionate about voting,” said Starlyn Nackos, of Lake Stevens, who spearheaded the ThankHER2020 drive to place signs on the graves of Washington’s suffragists.

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/here-lies-a-suffragist-election-day-thanks-to-the-pioneers/

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