Background
Her father Charles C. Jennings was a politician active in the abolition movement in the 1830s.
Her father Charles C. Jennings was a politician active in the abolition movement in the 1830s.
Frances married General John South. Casement in 1857. He was elected as representative to congress and lobbied for voting rights for women. In 1870 they returned to Painesville, where Frances continued her campaign for women"s rights.
In 1883, she organized the Equal Rights Association in Painesville and in 1885 helped found Ohio Women"s Suffrage Association, serving as president from 1885 to 1889.
Casement lived to see the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution giving women equal voting rights adopted in 1920.