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6 months before the election date, which was a tactic to suppress women's votes, since it would not have been reasonable to expect women to register to vote in an election when they did not yet have the right to vote. For reasons that are not known, Mary
Jarrett White was the only woman who did actually register 6 months before the election took place, even though at the time the amendment had not been ratified. This made White the only woman to vote in the 1920 election, and the first woman to vote in the state of Georgia.
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White was also the last private owner of what is now the
Traveler's Rest Historical Site in Toccoa, Georgia. The land was one of the first land grants in the history of Georgia, when it was given by the government to revolutionary war veteran Major Jesse Walton in 1785. White's grandfather, Devereaux
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White was able to vote before women's suffrage was officially instituted in the state of
Georgia through the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. When the amendment was passed, the state decreed that women could vote in the 1920 election only if they had registered
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White was a founder and the first organizing regent of the
Daughters of the American Revolution in Toccoa, and she also served as secretary of the chapter. Several events have been held commemorating her founding of the chapter. In addition to founding the local chapter of the Daughters of the
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but before it was logistically feasible for women to do so in
Georgia. White was also the last private owner of one of the first land grants in the state of Georgia, and she was the founding organizing regent of the
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Jarrett, bought the site near Toccoa, which came to be known as
Jarrett Manor. White sold the home to the state of Georgia in 1955, when it was officially designated a historical site. The
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