Clarina Nichols

CLARINA  was born 1810 in Townshend, Windham County, Vermont.  She married her first husband JUSTIN CARPENTER in 1830, with whom she had three children, BIRSHA, CHAPIN and AURELIUS. They divorced in 1843. CLARINA then became a newspaper reporter and publisher in Windham County. She became interested in the Suffrage movement at that time and became nationally known. CLARINA married GEORGE W. NICHOLS in 1843, they had one son GEORGE B.  and then moved to Kansas in the 1850”s. CLARINA became very active in suffrage in the state of Kansas and also worked against slavery. She worked as a reporter during these years. Kansas became a major battleground for women’s suffrage and CLARINA was joined in 1867 by SUSAN B. ANTHONY, LUCY STONE, OLYMPIA BROWN and ELIZABETH CADY STANTON in the Kansas campaign for equal suffrage, but the state would wait until 1912 for women to get the vote.

Clarina is buried with her son, George B Nichols
Mary W.  Nichols -his wife
Birney A.- his daughter
Catherine H. Raymond- Georges daughter
Helen C. Moncrief -Georges daughter
Harry Moncrief – Helen’s husband