Matilda Joslyn Gage, Grave

Title

Matilda Joslyn Gage, Grave

Biographical Text

Rough-hewn granite headstone containing a quote of Gage and denoting her birth and death years.
The headstone contains the quote “There is a word sweeter than mother home or heaven that word is liberty,” which was Gage’s lifelong motto, with which she frequently signed autographs.

Text

GAGE
MATILDA JOSLYN
1826 GAGE 1898
THERE IS A WORD
SWEETER THAN MOTHER
HOME OR HEAVEN
THAT WORD IS LIBERTY

Type

English Grave

Bibliographic Citation

Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage, Find a Grave

Matilda Joslyn Gage, National Park Service

Project Researcher

Bysterbusch, Hailey