Caroline A. Hall

She played a key role in assuring that women would be on an equal footing with men from the first inception of the Grange movement, feeling that because the family farm included women, then so should the organization that the family would join.

It was through her attention to detail and correspondence that Kelley's dream became a reality in organizing the Grange.

The National Grange later dignified her vital contributions to the formation of the Order by recognizing her as co-equal with the other seven founders, stating: Caroline Arabella Hall should have been named among the Founders because of her great influence on the fundamental structure of the Order.

On October 11, 1918, she was involved in an automobile accident near French Lick, Indiana, from which she never recovered, and she died at the age of 80 on December 11, 1918.

"[1] The eight founders of the Grange were Oliver Hudson Kelley, William Saunders, Francis M. McDowell, John Trimble, Aaron B. Grosh, John R. Thompson, William M. Ireland, and—recognized later than the other seven—Hall.