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MADISON, Mississippi in the 1880s: 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. Midwifery in Mississippi
    date February 15, 1885 to February 17, 1885map MADISON, Mississippitags Health/Death, Women

    On February 17, 1885, Mrs. Octavia Wyche wrote from Meridianville in Madison County, Mississippi to her daughter Imogene in Virginia about a number of things. Perhaps the most important news of the letter was the complication during child birth that her other daughter Mollie had gone through two days before. Mrs. Wyche noticed her daughter was acting strangely and sent Walter, one of her sons, for...

  2. Economies At Odds
    date August 13, 1887map MADISON, Mississippitags Economy

    Economic change was slow to come to the former Confederacy after the Civil War. Although railroads began to crisscross New South cities like Atlanta, dependence on an agricultural way of life made the cities of the South less likely sites of industrial development than their Northern counterparts. This impeded development was only further hindered by the outbreak of Yellow Fever in Montgomery, New...

  3. Organization of Women's Movements in the South: Belle Kearney, WCTU, and Suffrage
    date April 1, 1889 to August 18, 1920map MADISON, Mississippitags Church/Religious-Activity, Law, Politics, Women

    For many women in the South, the Women's Christian Temperance Union served as an opportunity to organize with other women, gain public career skills, and work outside the home. This experience was later able to transfer in women's work for suffrage. Belle Kearney, a leader within the WCTU and later a women's suffragist, wrote about the beginning of her career in the WCTU in her autobiography, A Slaveholder's...