10. Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Woodlawn Cemetery

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American suffragist, social activist, and leader of the early women’s rights movement. Stanton was originally an active abolitionist alongside her husband during the years leading to the Emancipation Proclamation. After the Emancipation Proclamation, Stanton transferred her focus primarily to women’s rights issues, making headlines after she refused to support giving voting rights to African American men when women, black and white, were denied that right.

18 years before women were granted the right to vote in the United State, Stanton died in 1902 in her home in New York City. She was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, where a monument was erected in her and her husband’s honor. The grand tomb is yet another mausoleum in the cemetery.

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