The Breeze - September 9, 1920

Mrs. E. W. [Flora Rulincy Seale] Thorpe was the first woman in Walton county to register for voting under the constitutional amendment which gave woman the power to vote. Mrs. R. [Isebelle Hawkins] Buchanan, Mrs. J. C. [Loudella Radford] Prescott, Mrs. H. [Martha E. Barrow] Thornber, Mrs. Anna Vinson and Mrs. Geo. [Arabella Jernigan] Ward followed in that order, and Miss Bessie Tervin was the first single lady to register.