Mrs. Mollie Hicks and Mrs. Annie Barnes, co-founders (with Rev. Goode S. Clark) of Mount Olive Baptist (Photograph courtesy of Mount Olive Church Ministries)
Semmie Clark was the wife of Mt. Olive founding pastor, Rev. Goode S. Clark.
Minnie Edwards Glover was born about 1887. After she registered to vote in 1920, she became a very active member of the Republican party, serving as Republican captain of the 21st precinct for many years.
From "Calls Harding a Second Lincoln: Rev. Reed tells colored voters Wilson is a juggler," Hartford Courant, September 24, 1920
Lizzie Thornton Jackson was born about 1892. In 1920, she was an ironer at Fong Lee’s laundry at Trumbull Street. She was a neighbor of Anna Reese and Eva Bivins (see their cards on this page).
While Lizzie Jackson was eligible to vote, but her employer, Fong Lee, was not. Chinese-Americans would not gain the right to vote until 1943. All Asian-Americans gained the right with the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act.
Lucy Battle Hill was living with her sister, Minnie and her mother, Ida (see their cards on this page) and was working with Ella Brown and Julia James (see their cards on the Women from Virginia page) at the Hale’s boarding house on Niles Street. Lucy was 23 when she registered to vote. Lucy married William Hill on July 26, 1921 in Hartford.
Mrs. Mollie Hicks, along with Mrs. Annie Barnes and Rev. Goode S. Clarke, was one of the co-founders of Mount Olive Baptist Church.
In 1920, Minnie M. Battle was 21 years old and living with her sister, Lucy Battle (married name, Hill, see her card on this page) and her mother, Ida Battle Jackson (see her card on this page), step-father and younger siblings at 81 Suffield Street. Per the census records, they came to Hartford from Georgia sometime between 1910 and 1920.
Anna B. Edwards Reese (Hart later) was born about 1890. In 1920, she was living at 387 Windsor and was next door neighbors to Lizzie Jackson and Eva Bivins (see their cards on this page). She was also the sister of Minnie Edwards Glover (see her card on this page).
Hartford Times clipping courtesy of Mount Olive Church Ministries.
Thomasina (Tommie) Ray Bivins was born about 1895. She married Clyde Bivins (born in Georgia in 1892) on December 22, 1917 in Hartford. Thomasina was sisters-in-law with Eva Jefferson Bivins and Annie Williams Bivins (see their cards on this page).
Ida Battle Jackson was born about 1875. Her first husband, Millard and the father of Lucy and Minnie (see their cards on this page) died in Georgia between the 1900 and 1910 Census. Ida moved to Hartford with her children sometime after 1910 and by the 1920 Census she had married Andrew Jackson, a blacksmith.
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