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Alice Cary McKinney
B&W portrait photo of a woman wearing a dark blouse with a white ribbon pinned on it, as well as a dark hat.
Portrait photo from The passing of the saloon, 1908
Born
Alice Cary Sadler

March 20, 1865
Alabama, U.S.
DiedOctober 8, 1928
Alma materWhitworth Female College
OccupationSocial reformer
Known forPresident, Louisiana Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Spouse
John Columbus Haley McKinney
(m. 1887)

Alice Cary McKinney (née Sadler; 1865–1928) was an American temperance and social reformer. She served as President of the Louisiana Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).[1]

Early life and education

Alice Cary Sadler was born in Alabama at Fort Deposit or Pollard, March 20, 1865.[1][2] Her parents were Francis Wilson Sadler, Jr (b. 1827) and Loretta Cary Crary Sadler (1831-1910). Alice's siblings were: Everett, Olive, John, Ella, Harriet, and Ida.[3]

She was educated in the public schools of Alabama and at Whitworth Female College, Brookhaven, Mississippi.[1]

Career

She left college during her junior year (1884) to teach school in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, where she remained until 1886.[1]

Early in life, McKinney had become interested in the temperance movement, and after becoming affiliated with the WCTU, served in almost every capacity in the local county and State bodies, including the editorship of the State WCTU organ, White Ribbon,[4] and the preparation of temperance columns for other publications.[1]

Removing to Ruston, Louisiana, McKinney affiliated with the Louisiana WCTU in which organization she has held successively the offices of district secretary (1903–04), recording secretary (1904–05), corresponding secretary (1906–08), and president (1909, till her death in 1928).[1]

McKinney was also quite active in the promotion of other social and religious uplift movements. For a time, she was parish superintendent (St. Tammany's Parish) of the Temperance Department of the International Sunday School Association. She was a firm advocate of woman suffrage, and made many speeches favoring both that doctrine and Prohibition.[1]

Personal life

In 1887, at Pearl River, Louisiana, she married J. C. H. McKinney (John Columbus Haley McKinney; 1858-1957), of Anguilla, Mississippi.[1] The couple had six children: Conrad, Ethel, Leonox, Gordon, D.L., and Griffin.[3]

The young couple lived near Anguilla, Mississippi for a number of years following their marriage, later moving to Louisiana. The couple settled in Ruston around 1903 where Mr. McKinney engaged in the dairy industry.[2]

McKinney was a member of the Ruston Methodist Church.[2]

She died in a local sanitarium in Shreveport, Louisiana, October 8, 1928, where she had been for ten days undergoing her second blood transfusion in little more than a month.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Cherrington, Ernest Hurst (1928). "McKinney, Alice Cary (Sadler).". Standard encyclopedia of the alcohol problem. Vol IV. Kansas-Newton. Westerville, Ohio: American Issue Publishing Co. p. 1635. Retrieved 31 March 2024 – via Internet Archive. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ a b c "State W.C.T.U. Leader Dead (Continued From Page One.)". The Shreveport Times. 9 October 1928. p. 15. Retrieved 1 April 2024 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ a b "Alice Cary Sadler". www.familysearch.org. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
  4. ^ Hammell, George M. (1908). The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. Cincinnati, O., The Tower press. p. 140. Retrieved 1 April 2024 – via Internet Archive. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ "Obituary for Alice Cary McKinney". The Shreveport Times. 9 October 1928. p. 1. Retrieved 1 April 2024 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.