INDIAN TERRITORY MISSIONARY WORKER
Elizabeth was the first woman admitted to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1928. She came to Tishomingo to work as a teacher and missionary in the Chickasaw Nation. After marriage, she moved to Boggy Depot to teach at Choctaw National School. A woman suffragist, she moved to Muskogee after her husband's death to be near her daughter and husband, Oklahoma's first U. S. Senator. She founded the Muskogee Day Nursery in 1904. In 1917. Elizabeth became the first woman to speak in the new state capitol building.
