# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helena-conley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:27:01.455Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helena-conley"
name: "Helena Conley"
slug: "helena-conley"
description: "Helena Gros Conley was a Wyandot activist and self-styled sorceress known for her fierce defense of the Huron Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas. Along with her sisters, Lyda and Ida, she gained national attention for occupying the cemetery in a makeshift fort to prevent its sale and development by the federal government. Conley was particularly noted for her role in physically guarding the grounds, her use of curses against political opponents, and her reputation as a \"force to be reckoned with.\""
tagline: "American Wyandot activist (1864–1958)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Helena_Conley_%28Wyandot_Nation_of_Kansas_Archives%2C_1930%29.png"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1864-09-10"
deathDate: "1958-09-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.21
  momentum:             9.105691056910569
  historical:           1.535169333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  34
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Conley"
    title: "Helena Conley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137580473"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations