Sallie Calvert Davis
24 Jul 1842 - 15 Sep 1907
bornSt. Francis County, Arkansas, USA
diedTempe, Arizona, USA
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BiographyCame to Tempe in 1876.Her father, Cornelius Davis, gave his daughters neither schooling nor a share in the family inheritance. In 1850, when she was 12 years old, she ran away from home because her father had
threatened to whip her with his bridge reins. She went to live with her older sister. Eventually learned to read and write, and became a teacher in Illinois, and then in California.
After marrying Charles T. Hayden in 1876, she went by rail to San Bernardino, California, where the Southern Pacific Railroad ended, and from there, traveled in Hayden's ambulance to Ehrenberg on the Colorado River. They traveled from there to
Wickenburg, and then to Hayden's Ferry.
She was the Hayden's Ferry's postmistress,
Dec 1876 to Jul 1878.
One of Arizona Territory's first suffragettes. Became a leader in promoting education in Tempe and served as a board member of the Tempe School District in its early days.
In 1895, she was vice president of the Arizona Equal Suffrage Association. She was a liberal and a feminist, and took a great interest in the politics of the town, territory and nation.
She managed the Hayden Ranch on Hayden Road.
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BIO-Hayden
BIO-Hayden, Charles
Old Settlers Collection, THM
Federal census (Tempe), 1900
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
Person TypeIndividual