The Carrie Nation home
Orion is standing next to a life size wooden
block of Carrie A. Nation
She is holding her hachet.
Michelle in front of a portrait of
Carrie Nation.
(Notice her hachet.)
Carrie A. Nation is a famous historical person.
A younger portrait.
The hachet Carrie used
The bedroom
(The tour guide is in the bedroom too.)
The bedroom and another photo
A trunk used for travel.
It is so interesting that it is
a mini dresser and closet.
An old fashioned piano
pump keys on the piano.
The kitchen
a map and location of the jail
A photo of the jail that Carrie was locked in.
Orion is inside what Carrie A Nation experienced
in a jail cell.
Going upstairs
(Orion is seen in the mirror)
The story of Carrie A. Nation is this:
Carry Amelia was born November 25, 1846
to George Moore, a plantation owner,
and
Mary Campbell in Gerrard County, Kentucky.
In 1867, she fell in love with and married a young physician,
Charles Gloyd, in
Belton, Missouri.
Unfortunately, he was a heavy drinker.
The union produced a
sickly child, Charlien
, whose condition her mother attributed to her husband's
drinking.
She left him because of his habit and inability to earn a steady
living;
he died six months later.
In 1877, Carry married David Nation,
a preacher, attorney and editor 19 years her
senior.
They moved to Texas, then to Medicine Lodge, Kansas in 1889,
where David
became pastor of the Christian Church.
Carry taught Sunday School, saw to the
needs of poor people,
became a jail evangelist and helped to
establish a local
chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance
Union.
She spoke out not only about the evils of drink,
but tobacco and
women's immodest dress as well.
Carry Nation's religious convictions sharpened.
She began to experience visions
and a sense of divine protection.
She even believed her
name, Carry A. Nation, was foreordained.
First she prayed in front of an establishment in 1890.
She struck at her first
saloon on June 1, 1900.
Initially, she used rocks, bricks and other objects for
these attacks,
then turned to the hatchet.
Nearly six feet tall (and about 175 pounds)
the determined woman closed the saloons in Medicine Lodge.
Nation responded to appeals from citizens of other towns to close
their saloons.
She entered states where liquor sales were legal.
Her behavior
provoked a tremendous uproar and sent her to jail repeatedly
for disorderly
conduct and disturbing the peace.
Later, fines were paid by the sale of pewter
hatchet pins
. Nation wielded her voice as effectively as her hatchet,
eloquently
speaking her mind and inspiring
others on numerous occasions.
Carrie felt that her name was ordained by God.
The Nations were divorced in 1901 (the tour guide told us it was
because Carrie did not stay at home to be a homemaker.)
and David died in 1903.
Carry completed her
last speaking tour in 1910, owing to failing health.
Carrie died June 9, 1911
(Information from www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1058.html )
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