First Female Tattoo Artist

Clements , KS

First Female Tattoo Artist

6 miles south on G, 2 miles east on 100, then 1 mile south on J to Homestead Cemetery. A native of Lyon County, Kansas, Maud Stevens Wagner began a circus career in the early 1900s. After leaving the circus she and her husband, Gus, traveled the vaudeville and county fair circuit as "tattooed attractions" while plying their trade. Both are buried in this rural cemetery. Maud was known as America's "First Lady Tattooer," as her gravestone clearly states. Inspired by Maud, entrepreneurs have opened Maud's Tattoo Company in Emporia at 720 Commercial.

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