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Throughout her life Mary Eleanor Brackenridge was a zealous advocate of the cause of
women's rights and her name is found in connection with almost every state and national
movement of note along this line.  She was an early champion of welfare work and was largely
responsible for the eventual inclusion of domestic science courses in the state school curriculum.
her efforts brought about the first police matron in Texas.

She was state president and later honorary national vice president of the Women Voters
League.  Miss Brackenridge pioneered in the work of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs as
well as that of the Daughters of the American Revolution in this state; she was named honorary
vice-president of the Texas Mother's Congress.  She was an ardent worker in the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, and at her death left a legacy to enable the union to carry on its work
more effectively.

George W. Brackenridge died December 20, 1920, and is buried in the family cemetery.  The
last interment in the Brackenridge Cemetery was Miss Mary Eleanor Brackenridge who died
February 14, 1924.

The funerals of George and Miss Mary Eleanor Brackenridge necessitated extensive arrange-
ments.  Stairs were built over the fence for the bereaved to enter the Brackenridge Cemetery.

A special train was chartered to carry the mourners to Edna, where they were met by their
chauffeurs who had driven down ahead of the train.  The townspeople of Edna put on their best
front and the finest cars were polished and loaned to take care of those folk from out-of-town who
did not send their own machines.  The funeral of a Brackenridge was a very solemn, momentous
occasion for Jackson County.