She tried to donate her brain to science

Just before turning 87, Cady Stanton passed away in 1902. Susan B. Anthony cried out in pain. She told the obituary writer for The New York Times, "I am too broken to talk. But Cady Stanton made an effort to make sure that she would continue to support concerns for women beyond her own passing. Her fellow suffragist companion Helen Gardener persuaded her to donate her brain to Cornell University so that researchers would have a distinguished female brain to contrast with distinguished male brains.

Gardener made her wishes known to the public after Stanton had informed her family of her plan. Cady Stanton "thought that a brain like hers would be helpful for all time in the record it would provide the world, for the first time—the scientific record of a thinker," according to Gardener among women,” Kimberly A. Hamlin writes in From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America. Cady Stanton’s family, however, refused to believe she had agreed to the plan, and the brain was buried with the rest of her in the Bronx’s Woodlawn Cemetery.