Helen Timmons Henderson

EPISODE · Nov 8, 2016 · 10 MIN

Helen Timmons Henderson

from Stories of Appalachia · host Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins

In the early part of the twentieth century, Helen Timmons Henderson came to Buchanan County, Virginia, to run the Buchanan Mission School with her husband. She did such an outstanding job of running the school that local Democratic party leaders talked her into running for state delegate in 1924, one of the first two women […]

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