Jennie Hart Sibley

Jennie Hart Sibley (1846–1917) was a prominent figure in the state of Georgia, holding leadership roles within various organizations, particularly in the American temperance movement. She served as the second president of the Georgia State Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.), succeeding her sister-in-law, Jane E. Sibley. She was also Greene County's president of the Daughters of the Confederacy as well as the inaugural president of the Union Point Garden Club, sometimes referred to as "The Mother of Georgia garden clubs". Sibley is also remembered for her advocacy in the suffrage movement.

Biography Sarah Virginia (nickname, "Jennie") Hart was born at Augusta, Georgia, October 21, 1846. She was a descendant of two families of South Carolina and Virginia.

She received her education in her home city before graduating from the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, Georgia.

She was president since 1888 of the W.C.T.U. of the eighth congressional district, comprising twelve counties in Georgia. For several years, she was state superintendent of the department of scientific temperance instruction and also superintendent of the state Young W.C.T.U.. She was a delegate to the World's W.C.T.U. convention held in London in 1896, and several times was elected a delegate to National W.C.T.U. conventions. In 1900, Sibley succeeded her sister, Jane Sibley, as president of the Georgia State W.C.T.U.

Jennie Hart Sibley died at Union Point, June 18/19, 1917.