They had only one child, a son named Francis Gilmer Minor, who was born in 1852 and died in 1866 as a result of a "shooting accident.
In preparation, Francis drafted a pamphlet and set of resolutions asserting national women's suffrage was already legal based on the verbiage of section one of the Fourteenth Amendment which makes no reference to sex or gender, only "citizens" and "persons."
When the registrar, Reese Happersett, refused to allow her to do so, Francis filed a lawsuit.
The suit demanded that Reese Happersett be ordered to register Virginia Minor to vote and pay damages in the sum of $10,000.
When Francis Minor died at age 71, on February 19, 1892 (two years before his wife), Susan B. Anthony wrote about him, "No man has contributed to the woman suffrage movement so much valuable constitutional argument and proof as Mr.