Timeline

1846- Carrie Nation was born. 1854- Carrie's father moved the family to High Grove Farm 1862- Her family and her moved to Texas 1867- At 21 years old, she married Charles Gloyd 1868- First child born, Charlien. 1871-1872- She, went to school to earn a teaching certificate in Warrensburg, Missouri 1873- She and her husband got divorced. 1874-She gets married to David Nation. 1877- They move to Texas from Missouri. 1889- Her husband became a preacher, and then they moved to Medicine Lodge, Kansas. 1900- believed gopd told her to go to Kiowa, Kansas and close all the bars. 1901- Someone hands her a hatchet! Also she gets divorced.she also published her first first newspaper, The Smasher's Mail. 1903- She officially changed her name to "Carry" from Carrie saying that it stood for Carry A. Nation for Prohibition. 1911- At age 64, she died of natural causes, she was buiried next to her mother.