During the Depression, an attorney in Missouri had a client who couldn’t pay him in money for services, and instead paid him in land. Many years later, this farmland was passed down to a local resident, who in turn subsequently sold the farm. In homage to her ancestors, many of whom were educated women in a time when that wasn’t the “norm,” this local resident started this scholarship with the proceeds from the sale of the farm to help provide higher education funding and other support to local survivors of sex trafficking.