Tami Vater, Media Relations

(502) 564-1792, ext. 4457

tami.vater@ky.gov

DEDICATIONS IN HONOR OF KENTUCKY WOMEN

May 15 – 1:00 p.m.  MARY ELLIOTT FLANERY*
2716 Panola Street (at site of Elliott Hall, which is now Pruitt & Thorner Law Offices)
Boyd County, Catlettsburg, Kentucky
       *Flanery photo available upon request.

The first woman elected to Kentucky legislature in 1921.  Flanery was elected to the House of Representatives from Boyd County.  While in the legislature, Flanery worked on issues of concern to women:  education, reform, and marriage and divorce laws.  She was a journalist, suffragist and politician.  Born in 1867 in Carter County, now known as Elliott County, she wrote for the Ashland Daily Independent from 1904-26.  She also taught in Elliott and Carter counties.  In 1924, she was chosen as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in New York.

May 23 – 2:00 p.m.  ANN I. BAKER
125 Kentucky Avenue
McCracken County, Paducah, Kentucky

Ann I. Baker came to Paducah in 1899 to work for her father at Ayer-Lord Tie Company.  She would go on to organize the Paducah Business and Professional Women’s Club in 1920.  Upon her retirement in 1930 Marine Ways named a boat, the A. I. Baker, in her honor.

HISTORIC HIGHWAY MARKER DEDICATIONS
Simpson & Jefferson Counties

May 15 – 2:30 p.m.  Birthplace of T.O. Chisholm, noted hymn writer
Simpson County Tourism office
US 31-W & Steele Road
Simpson County, Franklin, Kentucky
Thomas Obadiah Chisholm, born in a log house in the Lake Spring community, taught in a local school at age 16.  Chisholm later became the associate editor of the Franklin Favorite and edited the Pentecostal Herald in Louisville.  Under the influence of evangelist Henry Clay Morrison who founded Asbury College, Chisholm was ordained to Methodist ministry and served in nearby Scottsville. 

Chisholm’s unstable health caused his work to vary from journalism to insurance to evangelistic pursuits.  He wrote poems through the years; some 800 were published and many set to music.  With musician William Runyan, Chishom wrote “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” (1923).  With C.H. Lowden, he wrote “Living for Jesus” (1917).  These hymns continue to provide inspiration and comfort.

May 16 – 2:00 p.m.  FRANSLEY-MOREMEN HOUSE
7410 Moorman Road
Jefferson County, Louisville, Kentucky

May 31 –  11:00 a.m. (following mass) ST. ANDREW’S CATHOLIC CHURCH*
St. Andrews Church Cemetery, approximately one mile from St. Andrews Church Road
Jefferson County, Louisville, Kentucky
*marker is for site of church built 1848-51

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