Effingham at Kepley's request. Upon the death of her husband Henry in 1906, the bereaved Ada moved to the Kepley's farm between Watson and Mason, Illinois (now known as Wildcat Hollow State Forest). There, Kepley wrote her autobiography, entitled, A Farm Philosopher, A Love Story (since edited and re-published), which she published in 1912. The book was printed by Worman's Printery in Teutopolis, Illinois. Of the land that is now Wildcat Hollow she writes Poverty and death Within the next few years, she lost her beloved farm and was forced to move to a small home in Effingham. Kepley died in St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital in 1925, and she is buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Effingham, next to her husband, Henry. Kepley's health and financial issues in her final years are allegorical to the very causes she so passionately fought for, and although she did not live to see the full impact of the national women's suffrage movement, her influence on the movement during its early years helped pave the way for the one of the greatest political achievements in United States history: the19th Amendment. Works A Farm Philosopher, A Love Story, Ada H. Kepley, 1912 See also Bradwell v. Illinois (1873) Women in the United States judiciary References Further reading Virginia G. Drachman, "Kepley, Ada Harriet Miserfree (11 February 1847–13 June 1925)" American National Biography (1999) https://doi.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1100991 External links Ada Kepley at the Women's Legal History Biography Project Ada Kepley biography by the Unitarian Universalist Historical Society 1847 births 1925 deaths 19th-century American women lawyers Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law alumni People from Somerset, Ohio People from Effingham, Illinois Old University of Chicago 19th-century American lawyers