Nell Mercer
Nell Mercer, (1893–1979) was a member of the Silent Sentinels picketing Woodrow Wilson's White House for women's suffrage.

Life
Mercer was born in North Landing, Virginia on January 24, 1893. 
She grew up in Norfolk, Virginia where she became a member of Norfolk branch of the National Women's Party.  A member of the Silent Sentinels picketing Woodrow Wilson's White House for women's suffrage, she was arrested in February 1919 for her participation in a watchfire demonstration and sentenced to five days in jail. In 1926, Mercer was a delegate to the Tenth Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in Paris, France.

Mercer owned a small hardware store in Norfolk, Virginia.  

She married Clifton N. Phillips in 1929. They had no children and the marriage ended in divorce. Mercer died in 1979.