Hartford Courant. 10 Dec 1985, Tue., pB6
M. Edna Purtell. 86, of West Hartford, died Dec. 8, 1985 at a local convalescent home. Born in Hartford, she had lived in West Hartford over 50 years. She had been employed as an inspector with the Conn. State Labor Dept. 35 years....active member with Conn. Federation of Democratic Women's Club. Miss Purtell was the youngest suffragette to have gone to jail in Washington in 1918 for the woman's right to vote, and at that time, had gone on a five day hunger strike. In 1952, won nationwide prominence to eliminate child labor on tobacco fields in the state of Conn.
On June 3, 1979 she won the Susan P Anthony Award of the Conecticut Federation of Democratic Women's Club of Hartford....predeceased by siblings: Thomas M. Purtell Jr., Edmund L. Purtell and former U.S. Senator William A. Purtell...mass at St. Thomas the Apostle Church...burial in Mt St Benedict Cemetery
She leaves:
sister, Eileen E. Purtell of Newington and several nieces and nephews
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was a Notary Public per CT State Register, 1924 Government & Military Records
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Hartford Courant. 10 Dec 1985, Tue., pB7
Edna M. Purtell, 86, of West Hartford, the youngest suffragette jailed for picketing the White House in 1918, died Sunday at a local convalescent home.
In 1918, on a trip financed by actress Katharine Hepburn's mother, Purtell traveled to Washington to picket President Woodrow Wilson for the right of women to vote. During the picketing she was arrested along with several thousand women.
She wore a gold, purple and white sash- the colors of the suffragette movement. A prison guard broke two of her fingers when she refused to remove the sash.
"We were place in the abandoned Washington District Jail. Many of the women were desperately ill. We couldn't drink the water in that place because it had been vacant for nine years," she said in a a 1979 interview. She continued to fight for women's rights throughout her life, describing herself as "an old-time, militant suffragette."
In 1979, she accepted the first Susan B. Anthony Award of the Conn. Federation of Democratic Women's Clubs in Hartford
M. Edna Purtell. 86, of West Hartford, died Dec. 8, 1985 at a local convalescent home. Born in Hartford, she had lived in West Hartford over 50 years. She had been employed as an inspector with the Conn. State Labor Dept. 35 years....active member with Conn. Federation of Democratic Women's Club. Miss Purtell was the youngest suffragette to have gone to jail in Washington in 1918 for the woman's right to vote, and at that time, had gone on a five day hunger strike. In 1952, won nationwide prominence to eliminate child labor on tobacco fields in the state of Conn.
On June 3, 1979 she won the Susan P Anthony Award of the Conecticut Federation of Democratic Women's Club of Hartford....predeceased by siblings: Thomas M. Purtell Jr., Edmund L. Purtell and former U.S. Senator William A. Purtell...mass at St. Thomas the Apostle Church...burial in Mt St Benedict Cemetery
She leaves:
sister, Eileen E. Purtell of Newington and several nieces and nephews
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was a Notary Public per CT State Register, 1924 Government & Military Records
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Hartford Courant. 10 Dec 1985, Tue., pB7
Edna M. Purtell, 86, of West Hartford, the youngest suffragette jailed for picketing the White House in 1918, died Sunday at a local convalescent home.
In 1918, on a trip financed by actress Katharine Hepburn's mother, Purtell traveled to Washington to picket President Woodrow Wilson for the right of women to vote. During the picketing she was arrested along with several thousand women.
She wore a gold, purple and white sash- the colors of the suffragette movement. A prison guard broke two of her fingers when she refused to remove the sash.
"We were place in the abandoned Washington District Jail. Many of the women were desperately ill. We couldn't drink the water in that place because it had been vacant for nine years," she said in a a 1979 interview. She continued to fight for women's rights throughout her life, describing herself as "an old-time, militant suffragette."
In 1979, she accepted the first Susan B. Anthony Award of the Conn. Federation of Democratic Women's Clubs in Hartford
Hartford Courant. 10 Dec 1985, Tue., pB6
M. Edna Purtell. 86, of West Hartford, died Dec. 8, 1985 at a local convalescent home. Born in Hartford, she had lived in West Hartford over 50 years. She had been employed as an inspector with the Conn. State Labor Dept. 35 years....active member with Conn. Federation of Democratic Women's Club. Miss Purtell was the youngest suffragette to have gone to jail in Washington in 1918 for the woman's right to vote, and at that time, had gone on a five day hunger strike. In 1952, won nationwide prominence to eliminate child labor on tobacco fields in the state of Conn.
On June 3, 1979 she won the Susan P Anthony Award of the Conecticut Federation of Democratic Women's Club of Hartford....predeceased by siblings: Thomas M. Purtell Jr., Edmund L. Purtell and former U.S. Senator William A. Purtell...mass at St. Thomas the Apostle Church...burial in Mt St Benedict Cemetery
She leaves:
sister, Eileen E. Purtell of Newington and several nieces and nephews
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was a Notary Public per CT State Register, 1924 Government & Military Records
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Hartford Courant. 10 Dec 1985, Tue., pB7
Edna M. Purtell, 86, of West Hartford, the youngest suffragette jailed for picketing the White House in 1918, died Sunday at a local convalescent home.
In 1918, on a trip financed by actress Katharine Hepburn's mother, Purtell traveled to Washington to picket President Woodrow Wilson for the right of women to vote. During the picketing she was arrested along with several thousand women.
She wore a gold, purple and white sash- the colors of the suffragette movement. A prison guard broke two of her fingers when she refused to remove the sash.
"We were place in the abandoned Washington District Jail. Many of the women were desperately ill. We couldn't drink the water in that place because it had been vacant for nine years," she said in a a 1979 interview. She continued to fight for women's rights throughout her life, describing herself as "an old-time, militant suffragette."
In 1979, she accepted the first Susan B. Anthony Award of the Conn. Federation of Democratic Women's Clubs in Hartford
M. Edna Purtell. 86, of West Hartford, died Dec. 8, 1985 at a local convalescent home. Born in Hartford, she had lived in West Hartford over 50 years. She had been employed as an inspector with the Conn. State Labor Dept. 35 years....active member with Conn. Federation of Democratic Women's Club. Miss Purtell was the youngest suffragette to have gone to jail in Washington in 1918 for the woman's right to vote, and at that time, had gone on a five day hunger strike. In 1952, won nationwide prominence to eliminate child labor on tobacco fields in the state of Conn.
On June 3, 1979 she won the Susan P Anthony Award of the Conecticut Federation of Democratic Women's Club of Hartford....predeceased by siblings: Thomas M. Purtell Jr., Edmund L. Purtell and former U.S. Senator William A. Purtell...mass at St. Thomas the Apostle Church...burial in Mt St Benedict Cemetery
She leaves:
sister, Eileen E. Purtell of Newington and several nieces and nephews
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was a Notary Public per CT State Register, 1924 Government & Military Records
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Hartford Courant. 10 Dec 1985, Tue., pB7
Edna M. Purtell, 86, of West Hartford, the youngest suffragette jailed for picketing the White House in 1918, died Sunday at a local convalescent home.
In 1918, on a trip financed by actress Katharine Hepburn's mother, Purtell traveled to Washington to picket President Woodrow Wilson for the right of women to vote. During the picketing she was arrested along with several thousand women.
She wore a gold, purple and white sash- the colors of the suffragette movement. A prison guard broke two of her fingers when she refused to remove the sash.
"We were place in the abandoned Washington District Jail. Many of the women were desperately ill. We couldn't drink the water in that place because it had been vacant for nine years," she said in a a 1979 interview. She continued to fight for women's rights throughout her life, describing herself as "an old-time, militant suffragette."
In 1979, she accepted the first Susan B. Anthony Award of the Conn. Federation of Democratic Women's Clubs in Hartford
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