Elizabeth (Neall) Gay (1819-1907)

Mrs Elizabeth Johns (Neall) Gay

She was a granddaughter of the famous abolitionist Warner Mifflin. Like him, she was a Quaker and Abolitionist. She was also an advocate of Women's Rights advocate who in 1840 accompanied Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London that in turn inspired the U.S. women's movement when the Convention refused to seat the women delegates.

Spouse (1)

Sidney Howard Gay

of Staten Island, New York; Author & Lecturer for the American Anti-Slavery Society

1814-1888

Children (3)

Sarah Mifflin Gay

of Staten Island, New York; died unmarried

1852-1901

Martin Gay

of Hingham, Massachusetts

1854-1935

Mary Otis (Gay) Wilcox

Mrs Mary Otis (Gay) Wilcox

1861-1933