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Lucretia Mott State Marker
Lucretia Mott State Marker
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Biography., La Mott (Pa.) -- History., Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880., Historic buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Cheltenham (Township)., Suffragists -- United States -- Biography., Abolitionists -- United States--Biography., Historical markers -- Pennsylvania -- Montgomery County., Cheltenham (Pa. : Township) -- Biography.
Lucretia Coffin Mott was born on January 3, 1793 on Nantucket Island. The family came to Philadelphia where she met and later married James Mott. In 1857 they moved to 'Roadside' on Old York Road where Latham Park is now situated. She was best known as an Abolitionist and Suffragist. In 1833 she assisted in the formation of the American Anti-Slavery Convention and after moving to Cheltenham her house was a station in the underground railroad. When Camp William Penn was built, only a few hundred yards from her house, she became a regular visitor to the training camp where she assisted in the chaplain work among black troops." - Alexander Scott