I have mentioned Oregon Hill’s activist history before, but then I was tipped off about this online entry:
Ida Mae Thompson was an important figure in Virginia’s woman suffrage movement, not for her political work but for her recordkeeping. First as a member of the Equal Suffrage League, the organization that led the effort to win women the right to vote, and then as a member of the League of Women Voters, Thompson collected and preserved the movement’s history.
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Thompson and her English-born mother moved to Richmond in 1886 to live with Thompson’s brother, Otis, a telegraph operator. The family lived in a rented frame house in the working-class neighborhood of Oregon Hill, on South Cherry Street near Hollywood Cemetery, just down the street from the first free circulating library in Richmond.
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Have just finished reading the above note,- Thank you. Did not know that Ida Mae had a brother, Otis. Am looking for information on Ida Mae’s father, Thomas Howard Facer. He was a pastor at Mt. Tirzah Baptist Church in Charlotte Court House, Virginia from 1859-1864. Your note was an aid to my search.