Basnettville, West Virginia

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Basnettville is an unincorporated community in Marion County, in the U.S. state of West Virginia. [1]

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History

A post office called Basnettville was established in 1849, the name was changed to Basnett in 1880, and the post office closed in 1903. [2] Basnettville most likely has the name of the local Basnett family, a member of which kept a store there. [3] Saint Johns Cemetery, next to the church, is sometimes referred to as Basnettsville Cemetery because Samuel Basnett (1776–1852) donated the land for the cemetery.

Notable person

Suffragist Lenna Lowe Yost was a native of Basnettville. [4]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lenna Lowe Yost</span> American suffragist (1878–1972)

Lenna Lowe Yost, president of the West Virginia Equal Suffrage Association (WVESA) during the state woman suffrage referendum campaign of 1916 and chairman of the WVESA Ratification Committee during the national amendment ratification campaign of 1920. Yost was at the time also the state president of the West Virginia Woman's Christian Temperance Union, thus being the only woman in the nation to serve as both president of temperance and of the suffrage club at the same time. Yost was the first woman to be appointed to the state Board of Education, and the first woman to chair the West Virginia Republic Party convention.

The West Virginia Equal Suffrage Association (WVESA) was an organization formed on November 29, 1895, at a conference in Grafton, West Virginia. This conference and the subsequent annual conventions were an integral part of the National American Woman Suffrage Association's Southern Committee's work to reach into previously under-represented areas for supporting the women's suffrage movement. The WVESA relied not only on the national association but also worked together with activists from the state's chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, state chapter of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and the clubs affiliated with the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs to win the right to vote. Though they lost in a landslide the 1916 referendum to amend the state's constitution for women's suffrage, the group provided the strong push for ratifying the federal amendment in spring 1920 that led to West Virginia becoming the thirty-fourth of the thirty-six states needed. That fall, West Virginia women voted for the first time ever, and the WVESA transformed itself into the League of Women Voters of West Virginia.

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Basnettville, West Virginia
  2. ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
  3. ↑ Kenny, Hamill (1945). West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains. Piedmont, WV: The Place Name Press. p. 97.
  4. ↑ "Lenna Lowe Yost". West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History. West Virginia Archives & History. Retrieved April 24, 2020.

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