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The joint resolution, which created the Virginia Women's Monument Commission, was passed unanimously in both the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate of Virginia. [9] In 2015, Alsop died at the age of 98, three years before the monument was first opened to the public. [7] From the text of Senate Joint Resolution No. 11:
Mary Draper Ingles (1732 – February 1815), also known in records as Mary Inglis or Mary English, was an American pioneer and early settler of western Virginia.In the summer of 1755, she and her two young sons were among several captives taken by Shawnee after the Draper's Meadow Massacre during the French and Indian War.
Statue of Laura Copenhaver included in the Virginia Women's Monument. Laura Lu Scherer Copenhaver (August 29, 1868 – December 18, 1940) was an American businesswoman. Copenhaver was a native of Marion, Virginia , where her father, the Reverend John Jacob Scherer, was the first president of Marion College . [ 1 ]
The death of Opechancanough in 1646 led to the disintegration of the confederacy built by his brother Powhatan.Cockacoeske's husband Totopotomoi became leader in 1649, [4] but English colonists in Virginia only referred to him the "king of the Pamunkeys," not "king of the Indians," as they had earlier paramount chiefs. [5]
Virginia Laydon, Alice, Katherine, and Margaret Anne Burras (later, Anne Laydon ) was an early English settler in Virginia and an ancient planter . She was the first English woman to marry in the New World, and her daughter Virginia Laydon was the first child of English colonists to be born in the Jamestown, Virginia , colony. [ 4 ]
Nancy Rodrigues is the Deputy Director of the 2019 Commemoration and former Virginia Secretary of Administration under Governor Terry McAuliffe. She was appointed to this position by Governor McAuliffe in December 2013, after nearly 30 years in public service and government.
The Allied armies’ Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section included 27 women and about 320 men during and just after WWII. The Army recently revived the concept, with the first new class of ...
Anna Whitehead Bodeker (July 27, 1826 – October 26, 1904) [1] [2] was an American suffragist who led the earliest attempt to organize for women's suffrage in the state of Virginia. [3]