Researching Edna Kearns
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The name Edna means "Pleasure, delight" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Edna Kearns on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Edna Kearns and the Kearns Family Tree
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Some Famous People called Edna Kearns
Edna Buckman Kearns
Edna Buckman Kearns (December 25, 1882 – June 1, 1934) was a suffrage activist who worked on the 1915 and 1917 New York campaigns for votes for women, as well as the National Woman's Party campaign for the passage and ratification of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution.
Kearns is best known for her horse-drawn suffrage campaign wagon, called the “Spirit of 1776,” that was used in New York City and Long Island suffrage parades, pageants, and special organizing events.
The suffrage wagon is in the collection of the New York State Museum and was exhibited at the state museum in 2010. The New York State Capitol exhibition in the Hall of the Governors, “From Seneca Falls to the Supreme Court: New York’s Women Leading the Way,” featured the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon in 2012.
Source: Edna Buckman Kearns, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Kearns
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