Fannie Martha Thomas was born Oct. 7, 1847, in Palmyra, Missouri, to Horace Lacels Thomas and Hannah Francis Hawkins. On Jan. 22, 1868, she married Thomas Jefferson Pate in Miami, Missouri. They had five children. Fannie was an active campaigner for women’s rights. When the family moved to Colorado in 1889, Fannie was so sick with asthma that she rode on a stretcher in the baggage car. She was 42 at the time and people in Missouri never expected to see her alive again. Even though she was never very healthy, she lived to the age of 82. She died of tuberculosis on November 24, 1929. She is buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in Denver. The second photo is Fannie at 16-years-old.