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The Married Woman’s Property Act which allowed married women to hold property separately from their husbands finally passed in VA in 1877 (the last state to do so, by the way)… this was a delicate period where women, of necessity, became vital…

Back Row: W. Earle Crank (Future Commonwealth's Attorney for Louisa County for 40 years), Henry S. Daniel, Jr. (Become beloved physician and built the Louisa Hospital), Atwood M. Wash ( who became a dentist in Richmond) , Welford J. Massie (became…