EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; SUSIE KING TAYLOR P/3

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Read Part One HERE

In this post I will continue to focus on a woman named Susie King Taylor. She lived from 1848 - 1912. Though Susie opened a number of schools, she had to eventually close all of them after chartered schools for African-Americans were established and she could no longer make a living through teaching. She then became a domestic servant to Mr and Mrs Green, a wealthy white family.

During the Reconstruction era, Susie became a civil rights activist after witnessing much discrimination in the South. She would travel once again to Boston in 1874 and entered into service for the Thomas Smith family in the Boston Highlands. After the death of Mrs Smith, Susie next served Mrs Gorham Gray until her marriage to Russell L. Taylor.

Susie devoted much of the rest of her life to work with the Women's Relief Corps, a national organisation for Female Civil War Veterans, where she held many positions, including guard, secretary and treasurer.

Susie died in 1912.

Read Part Four HERE