Elizabeth Fulton Hester

Elizabeth Fulton Hester
Born
Elizabeth Fulton

(1839-01-06)January 6, 1839
Georgia
DiedAugust 1929
Oklahoma
OccupationsMissionary, teacher, nurse
Known forMissionary and education work

Elizabeth Fulton Hester was an American missionary, Confederate States of America nurse, and early advocate for women's suffrage who was active in Indian Territory and later the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

Early life

Elizabeth Fulton Hester was born in Georgia on January 6, 1839, to Reverend Defau Tallerand Fulton and his wife.[1][2] Defau Fulton had left Virginia to become a Methodist missionary to the Cherokee in North Georgia.[2] She graduated from the Southern Masonic Female Seminary in Covington, Georgia in 1855.[3]

Missionary work and teaching

In 1856, she moved to Tishomingo, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory to work at a missionary school.[4][2] In 1861, she moved with her husband, George Hester, to Boggy Depot, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. She taught at the national school organized by the Choctaw Nation. In 1878, she returned to Tishomingo helped form Indian Territory Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. She advocated for women's suffrage. After her George's death in 1901, she moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma and founded the city's Muskogee Day Nursery.[4] In 1917, she became the first woman to speak in the Oklahoma Capitol.[3]

Civil War nursing

Hester worked as a nurse for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War in Boggy Depot, while her husband George was a captain.[3] The Hester's mercantile store became a confederate hospital and top confederates, including Stand Watie, William B. Taliaferro, Samuel Cooper, Sterling Price, and Quantrill's Raiders dined at her home.[2] She was later a chaplain for the United Daughters of the Confederacy of Oklahoma.[4] After the war, George's store was looted by demoralized former Confederate soldiers and then seized by Union Army troops for serving as a Confederate hospital.[2]

Personal life and legacy

Hester married George B. Hester, a merchant, in 1859.[5] Her daughter, Daisy Hester, married U.S. Senator Robert L. Owen.[2] She was the first woman inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.[6] She died in August 1929.[3]

References

  1. ^ Mullins, Jonita (June 19, 2017). "Three Forks History: Missionary Served Different Tribes". Muskogee Phoenix. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Bostic, E. McCurdy. "Elizabeth Fulton Hester". Chronicles of Oklahoma. 6 (4): 449–452. Archived from the original on 2008-07-06. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d Synar, Edwyna (July 5, 2019). "Remember the Ladies: Indian Territory missionary worker". Muskogee Phoenix. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  4. ^ a b c "Elizabeth Fulton Hester, Class of 1928". oklahomahof.com. Oklahoma Hall of Fame. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Elizabeth Fulton Hester (1839-1929)". umc.org. United Methodist Church. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  6. ^ Harl, Faith (December 23, 2022). "A Legacy of Excellence". Oklahoma Magazine. Retrieved 25 September 2023.

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