October 3–8, 1923. She died on Thanksgiving Day (November 29) in 1923. In the 1960s and 1970s there was a Katherine D. Tillman Missionary Society at Bethel A. M. E. Church in Leavenworth, Kansas, named in her memory. References External links African-American dramatists and playwrights African-American poets African-American short story writers 1870 births 1923 deaths American women dramatists and playwrights American women essayists American women poets American women short story writers American women in World War I Wilberforce University alumni People from Mound City, Illinois People from Yankton, South Dakota Writers from Illinois Writers from South Dakota 19th-century American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 19th-century essayists 20th-century American essayists 19th-century American poets 20th-century American poets 19th-century American short story writers 20th-century American short story writers 19th-century American women writers 20th-century American women writers 20th-century African-American women writers 20th-century African-American writers