March is Women's History Month. This month we will feature 100 photos of Oxford's women through history.

Today's photos include:

A REMARKABLE GROUP OF WOMEN:  The photograph ... was taken June 15, 1898, at the residence of C. E. Fairchild, on the occasion of the 91st birthday anniversary of Mrs. Sarah C. Fairchild, widow of Ebenezer Fairchild, and daughter of Job Candee, a soldier of the Revolution. Eight other elderly ladies were invited, the average age of the nine being 85 years, and all, with the hostess, Mrs. C. E. Fairchild, were photographed as above. Nearly all the ladies were representatives of families which for more than two centuries and a half had been landed proprietors in this immediate vicinity, families which had shared in the perils and privations of the War of the Revolution, and had borne well their part in shaping the destinies of the Republic.
      Seated, left to right: Mrs. Susan M. Brown, Mrs. Antoinette Wooster, Mrs. Sarah Fairchild, and Mrs. Augusta E. Davis; Standing, left to right: Mrs. Mary Ann Riggs, Ms. C. E. Fairchild, Mrs. Sarah Smith, Mrs. Catharine L. Rankin, Mrs. Sally M. Beecher
    (Page 360, Seymour Past and Present, Campbell, Bassett, & Sharpe)

THE TILQUIST SISTERS: Families were often large. Here are six of the seven Tilquist sisters, left to right: Caroline, who married Andrew Hall;
Leila, who died young; Annie who married Aron Swensen;Hulda who married Henry Thayer; Rachel who married IvanLindblom; Emma who married Joe Montriski. Nellie (aseventh sister) died in infancy. The seven sisters had sixbrothers. (Courtesy of Evelyn Montriski McCarthy)

Margaret Tilquist stands at the doorway, of the Tilquist Homestead on Quaker Farms Road, located at what is now the corner of Route 188
and Tilquist Road. (Courtesy of Evelyn Montriski McCarthy.)