Zears, Edith McCroskey, 1890-1993.

Born 1890, Nebraska; died 1993. Edith McCroskey Zears was born in Nebraska in 1890 to Harvey and Flora McCroskey. As a child, she moved with her family to Oklahoma City, where she passed most of the remainder of her life. An independent and civic-minded woman, she was 30 years old in 1920 when women finally received the right to vote and opened her home as a polling place. In the 1930s she was very involved with The Speakers Institute, a women's home study course in public speaking, storytelling, and elocution. Edith died in Oklahoma City in 1993 at the age of 103.