[1] In August 1873, Langhorne married John Henry Lewis, a civil war veteran and attorney.

[1] The group, founded in October 1910, created petitions in support of women's suffrage addressed to the Virginia General Assembly and gave presentations to local organizations.

The group also published the Lynchburg Woman's Suffrage News, which first debuted in April 1917 and printed 5,000 copies.

[5] In 1916, Lewis and her daughter Elizabeth Otey helped to persuade the Virginia Republican Party state convention to endorse women's suffrage.

Flood was against extending the vote to women and was an influential voice within the Virginia Democratic Party.

The group's banner read "Kaiser Wilson, have you forgotten your sympathy with the poor Germans because they were not self-governed?

[2][6] In the spring of 1918, Lewis' cousin Lila Valentine, the president of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, had undergone a serious operation.