Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was a women’s rights orator and a leader of the woman suffrage movement, founding and leading the American Woman Suffrage Association. She was an organizer of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, one of the first Massachusetts woman to receive a college degree, the first married woman to officially keep her family name, and the founder and editor of the Woman’s Journal. She was the first woman to be cremated in New England. Her ashes are held in the Number One urn in the Columbarium below the Lucy Stone Chapel (see below) with those of her husband and her daughter Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950) who was also a leader in the women’s rights movement and editor of the Woman’s Journal for 25 years.
