July 22, 1889

Clara Cox McDiarmid died while visiting relatives in Des Moines, Iowa. The Indiana native came to Arkansas when her husband, a Union army soldier, was garrisoned in Little Rock. She quickly became one of the state’s foremost reform leaders, supporting such causes as women’s suffrage and the temperance movement, rising to become treasurer of the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association. She traveled extensively across the United States, Mexico, and Europe, advocating for the rights of women and their equal status under the law.