Carry A. Nation"She Hath Done What She Could"
Years of struggling to bring about change finally caught up with Carry. She attempted a speaking tour in 1910, but her health failed her. Nearing the end of her life, Carry purchased property at Eureka Springs, Arkansas, that included a farm and "Hatchet Hall" (pictured at right) which she hoped would become a school to promote prohibition. Carry A. Nation made her final speaking engagement at Eureka Springs, Arkansas, in January 1911. She collapsed on stage, her final public statement being, "I have done what I could." Carry was taken to Evergreen Place Hospital in Leavenworth where, ironically, one specialty was the treatment of drug and alcohol addiction. 
Carry Amelia Moore Gloyd Nation died June 9, 1911. The funeral service was held in Kansas City, Kansas, and burial was in the cemetery in Belton, Missouri, near her parents. A service also was held in Eureka Springs. The photo at left depicts a memorial erected in front of Hatchet Hall after the crusader's death. Carry's grave was not immediately marked, and for a time only a board painted white with her name showed the world where the crusader rested. In 1924 the people of Belton raised the funds necessary to place a granite marker on her grave. It bears the epitaph she desired: 
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