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Dr. Sarah H. Lockrey

Released
Full name:Sarah Hunt Lockrey
Date of birth:21. 04. 1863
Date of death:08. 11. 1929
Age:66† Deceased
Gender:Female
Era:1910s
State:District of Columbia
Support
Women's suffrage
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Biography

Dr. Sarah H. Lockrey was a Philadelphia surgeon and a member of the National Woman's Party who took part in the 1917-1919 campaign to picket the Wilson White House for woman suffrage. (Recorded as Dr. Sarah Hunt Lockrey; April 21, 1863 - November 8, 1929)

She was arrested on August 6, 1918 and released on bail. She then paid the fine rather than serve the sentence, so that she could carry out scheduled surgery. She did not serve a jail term, and this record no longer claims one: an earlier version credited her with fifteen days in August 1918, which she did not serve.

Stevens records a nominal fifteen-day sentence. The current individual case states that Lockrey paid the fine to perform surgery and served no jail term. Its fifteen-day actual override contradicts that disposition and is removed.

Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, PDF pages 11.

Case

Arrested: Aug 6, 1918
Sentence: Arrested August 6, 1918 and released on bail. She paid the fine instead of serving the sentence, in order to perform scheduled surgery, and served no jail term.