Helen Shaw Harrold was a white woman born to William C. and Leonice Shaw. She was the wife of Dr. Charles C. Harrold, a Macon physician who was involved in civic affairs and politics. She was active in the women’s suffrage movement, a Member-At-Large of the State Executive Committee of the Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia in 1915. In September 1921, in the first Macon election in which women were eligible to vote, Helen Shaw Harrold also ran for a seat on the Macon City Council and was elected by a large margin. She remained in office for a number of years. In 1921, she helped form the Pilot Club, an organization for businesswomen that has become international in scope. In 1923, she was on the commission to build stadium/athletic field in Macon. She died on January 4, 1960.

(Sources: History of Macon – The First One Hundred Years; and The History of Macon, Georgia, 1823-1949, by Ida Young, Julius Gholson, and Clara Nell Hargrove; https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1010026868; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56629130/helen-sophia-harrold.)