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130:. The couple were devoted to one another and both firmly supported women's equality. Young had sole title to the couple's home and managed her own money, which was an anomaly at the time. In 1891, Young became one of a few female members of the South Carolina Press Association. During this time, Young was also running the
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William Wallace Durant, a state legislator, and Julia Durant. At age 16, Virginia married Benjamin H. Covington, a Confederate soldier who died in 1879. Widowed, Virginia moved back to South Carolina from Mississippi where she and her late husband had lived. In 1880, she married Dr. William Jasper
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weekly newspaper, Young became the newspaper's sole owner in 1899. Her work for women's suffrage in South
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