Salena Virginia <I>Hittson</I> Ernest

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Salena Virginia Hittson Ernest

Birth
Palo Pinto, Palo Pinto County, Texas, USA
Death
10 Apr 1946 (aged 85)
Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, USA
Burial
Denver, City and County of Denver, Colorado, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot 83 Block 23
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Born Salena Virginia Hittson, lived in Palo Pinto, Texas as a girl. As a teenager she was sent to St. Louis to Maryville Academy to receive an education from the nuns. Indeed she did and was reputed to be the most educated woman of her day west of the Mississippi.

She became the great social lion of her day in Denver and imported her dresses from Paris, from the designer "Worth," the most famous dress designer of the time. Enclosed is a picture of Salena in one of those dresses.

She was an avid club woman, running for various jobs such as president of the school board.

She was also a suffragette fighting for the women's rights long before women had rights, getting the vote for women in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah long before 1920, when it became law of the land.

This little girl from Palo Pinto, Texas and Deer Trail, Colorado certainly was something special.

Respectfully submitted to the "Jailhouse Museum", Palo Pinto, Texas by J. Philip Thelin and Nancy Ernest Porter, Great Grandchildren of Salena Virginia Hittson Ernest and Great-Great Grandchildren of John Nathan Hittson and Great Great-Great-Grandchildren of Jesse Hittson.

J. Philip Thelin
Nancy Ernest Porter
Born Salena Virginia Hittson, lived in Palo Pinto, Texas as a girl. As a teenager she was sent to St. Louis to Maryville Academy to receive an education from the nuns. Indeed she did and was reputed to be the most educated woman of her day west of the Mississippi.

She became the great social lion of her day in Denver and imported her dresses from Paris, from the designer "Worth," the most famous dress designer of the time. Enclosed is a picture of Salena in one of those dresses.

She was an avid club woman, running for various jobs such as president of the school board.

She was also a suffragette fighting for the women's rights long before women had rights, getting the vote for women in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah long before 1920, when it became law of the land.

This little girl from Palo Pinto, Texas and Deer Trail, Colorado certainly was something special.

Respectfully submitted to the "Jailhouse Museum", Palo Pinto, Texas by J. Philip Thelin and Nancy Ernest Porter, Great Grandchildren of Salena Virginia Hittson Ernest and Great-Great Grandchildren of John Nathan Hittson and Great Great-Great-Grandchildren of Jesse Hittson.

J. Philip Thelin
Nancy Ernest Porter

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