page_title: Anna Whitehead Bodeker
section_title: Later years, death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Anna Whitehead Bodeker / Later years, death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Bodeker family plot, located in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, U.S. where Anna Whitehead Bodeker and family are interred.
context_page_description: Anna Whitehead Bodeker was an American suffragist who led the earliest attempt to organize for women's suffrage in the state of Virginia. Bodeker brought national leaders of the women's suffrage movement to Richmond, Virginia to speak; published newspaper articles to draw attention and supporters to the cause; and helped found the Virginia State Woman Suffrage Association in 1870, the first suffrage association in the state.
context_section_description: Bodeker became involved in spiritualism in late 1871, and by 1872 she believed she was a powerful medium. Disturbed by Bodeker's unorthodox views and increasingly erratic behavior, her family admitted her against her will to the Western Lunatic Asylum (now called Western State Hospital) in Staunton, Virginia on September 19, 1873. She was released on October 20, 1874, and returned to Richmond.
  Bodeker's husband died on July 26, 1884. Bodeker lived at the family home, 2801 E. Grace Street, with her two living daughters, Pearl and Ruby, until her death on October 26, 1904. She was buried at Hollywood Cemetery.
  Bodeker was honored by the Library of Virginia as part of the 2003 class of Virginia Women in History.
  Bodeker's name is featured on the Wall of Honor on the Virginia Women's Monument, located in Capitol Square in Richmond.
caption: The Bodeker family burial plot, located in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
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