Matilda Joslyn Gage Grave

Matilda Joslyn Gage Grave

In a Fayetteville, New York, cemetery is the gravestone of a largely forgotten suffragist leader, which makes a powerful, uncompromising statement. In the quiet Fayetteville Cemetery, amid rows of conventional memorials, stands a monument that speaks with a voice of radical conviction. It marks the final resting place of Matilda Joslyn Gage, a pioneering suffragist, abolitionist, and freethinker whose contributions to American history were for a…