was a member of the wctu a radical member named carrie a nation? kerry a million nation she was born in kentucky about the during the civil war and she her first husband was a very alcoholic doctor. she must have been pretty naive because she didn't realize he was a drunk until after they married he was dead in a year leaving her with a small baby and she woke up one year about at age 52 living with her second husband in medicine lodge, kansas and decided that the lord had told her she needed to start on a mission to destroy saloons. so she wrapped up her weapon of choice that day was rocks and she in the methodist minister went to a saloon. i'm sorry the methodist minister's wife with a hand organ, you know yelling hymns at the top of their voices throwing the rocks breaking mirrors breaking windows. just wrecking the place. and eventually they wiped out all the saloons of medicine lodge. i mean cancer supposed to be a dry state but in practice it wasn't and then she moved on to bigger and better things bigger and better towns and more effective w