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Adeline Clayton: Adeline Clayton was the wife of Governor Powell Clayton, ninth governor of Arkansas (1868-1871). They met during the Civil War when he came to Helena, Arkansas as part of the Union occupying force. After Union soldiers seized her father's hotel, Adeline created so much trouble that Powell Clayton had her arrested, but probably not jailed. Soon after the war's end, they married. Because she had married a Yankee officer, the old, established families of Arkansas no longer accepted Adeline. As loyal Confederates, these families felt that she had betrayed her country; and they considered her to be a traitor.
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Irene Hawkins: Irene Hawkins is a teenage girl from Little Rock who has just returned from a trip with her family to St. Louis, Missouri. They traveled by train to attend the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, which was better known as the St. Louis World's Fair. She enjoys talking about her experiences at the fair and the sites she saw along the Pike.
Carry A. Nation: Carry A. Nation was a famous temperance speaker who traveled throughout the United States and Canada giving lectures on prohibition and women's suffrage. Though people often ridiculed her and called her a fanatic, she believed that she was on a mission from God. Inspired to use a hatchet, Carry Nation and her followers destroyed saloons in Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma by smashing doors, breaking windows and mirrors, spilling beer kegs and barrels, and breaking all the bottles and glasses under the bar.
Mollie Somerville: Mollie Somerville is a wife and mother of three whose husband is away fighting for the Confederacy. She describes her daily life and talks about all of her new responsibilities. Sharing her deep concern for her husband's safety, she prays for a quick end to the war.
See also the Spring 1990 issue of the Arkansas News on “Women in Arkansas.”
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