McIntire, Lucy Barrow, 1886-1967

Lucy Barrow McIntire; b. 11 Jul 1886, Athens, Clarke County, Georgia; died 4 Nov 1967 (aged 81), Savannah, Georgia; buried Laurel Grove Cemetery North, Savannah, Georgia.

Biography of Lucy Barrow McIntire, 1886–1967, by Anne Mellen; Lucy Barrow McIntire or "Miss Lucy," as she was fondly called, was born in 1886 to a prominent Athens, Georgia family, the Davenports. She married an attorney from Savannah, Georgia, a town she adopted as her own, and bore six children. However, family responsibilities did not limit her, and as one person noted, she liked having her "finger in the pie," every pie it seems.

"Miss Lucy" was the president of the Savannah Suffrage Association, and after the vote for women was won, she helped found Savannah's chapter of the League of Women Voters. However, this was not nearly the end of her involvement in her town. The Georgia Women of Achievement, a group she was posthumously inducted into in 1997 as its sixth inductee, noted that "her youthful zeal to find pragmatic solutions for the myriad problems facing [Savannah] and [Georgia] did not cease with age." She had more than a half of century of accomplishments before she passed away in 1967 (one web site stated 1975, but most stated 1967).

McIntire had her finger in everything it seems. She was a poet, helped found the Georgia Poetry Society in 1923, and won many prizes for her poetry ...

Lucy Barrow McIntire (July 11, 1886, Athens, Georgia – November 4, 1967, Savannah, Georgia), also called Miss Lucy, was an American suffragist, activist, preservationist, actor, and poet; one of the founders of the Historic Savannah Foundation and the Poetry Society of Georgia ...