Draft:Jessie Lee Maynard
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Sources I need
[edit]https://www.google.com/books/edition/Matewan_Before_the_Massacre/EG0oAQAAIAAJ?hl=en
Early Life
[edit]Not much is known about her early life. But she was in born Williamson, West Virginia on September 4, 1894. She was the daughter of Ira and Emily Butcher Maynard. She was a niece of Randolph and Sarah McCoy. Between 1904 to 1905 she attended school in Naugatuck, West Virginia.[1]
Marriage to Cabell C. Testerman
[edit]Meets Sid Hatfield
[edit]Marries Sid
[edit]Death of Sid Hatfield
[edit]August 1 1921, Jessie her husband, Ed Chambers, and Sally Chambers traveled on a train heading to the courthouse in McDowell County which was under the miners control. When the four of them walked up the courthouse steps, Jessie noticed Charles E. Lively. Lively and Baldwin-Felts agents pulled out their pistols and killed Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers in front of their wives.[2]
Heads to Washington D.C. and testimony
[edit]On October 27, 1921 Jessie and Sallie Chambers arrived in Washington D.C. and a photographer took a photograph of the women on Capitol Hill, the women found themselves in the national spotlight.[3] Attorney Frank Walsh stated:[4]
We except to show perfectly clearly here that the United States Steel Corporation, in the person of Judge Gary, is as responsible for the those two as if they took action of the board of directors and ordered Lively to the murder the husbands of those women.
— Frank Walsh testimony
On October 28, 1921 Jessie and Sallie testified to the United States congressional subcommittee about the violence in West Virginia.[1]
Marries Sylvester Pettry
[edit]Marries Wilson R. Jennings
[edit]Arrest
[edit]Death
[edit]Legacy
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Council, West Virginia Humanities. "Jessie Maynard Testerman Hatfield". www.wvencyclopedia.org. Retrieved 2025-08-07.
- ^ "West Virginia Mine Wars". Oxford Research Encyclopedias.
- ^ Green 2015, p. 290.
- ^ Green 2015, p. 290, 405.
Bibliography
[edit]Green, James (2015). The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom. Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-2465-4.