Stone (Lucy) is born in West Brookfield.

Lucy Stone becomes the first Massachusetts woman to graduate from college when she receives a degree from Oberlin College in 1847. She goes to work for the American Anti-Slavery Society and subsequently champions feminism during the week and the anti-slavery movement on weekends, explaining, “I was a woman before I was an abolitionist.” Stone marries Henry Blackwell in 1855,* moves to Boston to work for the New England Suffrage Association in 1869, and moves to 45 Boutwell Street in 1870. She helps found the American Woman Suffrage Association, and she and Blackwell go on to edit the Woman’s Journal. Stone dies in Dorchester on October 18, 1893. She is cremated and her remains are placed in the columbarium at Forest Hills Cemetery on December 30, 1893.