Frances Ann "Fanny" Gore Hazlett (August 31, 1837 - April 3, 1933) was one of the oldest pioneer women of Nevada. [1]
Frances Ann "Fanny" Gore Hazlett (August 31, 1837 - April 3, 1933) was one of the oldest pioneer women of Nevada. [1]
Frances Ann "Fanny" Gore Hazlett was born on August 31, 1837, in Massachusetts, the daughter of Stephen Gore and Joan Whitcomb. [2]
Fanny G. Hazlett was a pioneer and writer. She crossed the plains from Iowa with her brothers, Charles and Johnny Gore, in 1862 to Nevada in the days of the Comstock Mines. [1] [2] They stayed at Buckland's Station for two days and then moved to Dayton, Nevada. The trip lasted 4 months. [3] Hazlett wrote: "This is mining country and the society is rough... with shooting affrays being frequent and drinking, gambling at every other door... about 20 men to one woman." [4] Her brothers worked in the wood business and Hazlett, first lived with Charles in a tent at a woodcutting camp, [3] with 30 miners and 200 local Native Americans, [4] and then opened a boarding house in the El Dorado Canyon (Nevada), "a cloth-covered frame, about ten by twelve, one-half of one side open for a door". [1] [5]
She contributed considerably to newspapers. [2] She published under the name "Frank Hazlett", since it was difficult at the time being published as a woman. [5]
She was first president and charter member of the Elderberry Club. [1] [2] [6] She was also a member of the Pioneer Society and in 1932 was presented with a certificate by the General Federation of Women's Club for being the oldest American born mother in the state of Nevada. [1]
Hazlett was involved in the Women's suffrage movement in Nevada, and the right to vote for women in Nevada was obtained two years before the national vote. [5] In 1895 she wrote a letter to the editor of the Nevada State Journal : "with the ridiculously small State vote, it seems an opportune time to increase the voting population." [4]
With her daughter Gertrude, Hazlett compiled a history of Dayton, published by the Nevada Historical Society in 1922 as Historical Sketch and Reminiscenses of Dayton, Nevada, and now available at the Dayton Museum. [7] [3] [5] [8] She was the first vice-president of the Nevada Historical Society. [9]
Hazlett was the postmaster of Dayton for twenty years and organized the Helping Hand Library at Dayton. She was one of the oldest women in the world to take a commercial flight in 1922. [10] [1] [4]
Fanny G. Hazlett moved to Nevada in 1862, first settling in Dayton, and later, in 1914, she moved to 701 University Ave., Reno, Nevada. [1] On March 18, 1864, she married Dr. John Clark Hazlett (1828-1895) and had one daughter, Emma Gertrude "Gertie" Hazlett Randall (1866-1911), who married the sheriff of Lyon County, Dixie Perry Randall. [1] [2] John C. Hazlett was a practicing doctor, Lyon County Superintendent of Schools, Lyon County's state senator for four years from 1870 to 1874 and Lyon County District Attorney in 1892. [8]
She died on April 3, 1933, and is buried with her husband and daughter at Dayton Cemetery, Dayton, Nevada. [1]
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