Biographical information contributed by Jenni Gibson (M. Stevens is her mother-in-law's great-grandmother).
Mary Ann nee Crail(l) was born 26 March 1866 in Porongahau, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. She married Louis Stevens on 12 July 1883 in Gisborne.
She died 12 March 1955 at East Cape Poverty Bay New Zealand.
From Lambs and Mud, a Pioneer Tale by Wag Cooper ISBN 0-473-00766-5 published 1989:
Wag was Mary's daughter-in-law. Mary was based in Gisborne; however P 38 says 'several times we went to Napier for the wool sales', so I am thinking that she went there to sign the suffrage petition?
There is a picture of Mary Ann on page 7, but I think it is under copyright. I have attached another photo off Ancestry website. They traveled by buggy and horses. She was hospitable and often had grandchildren for meals and stay overnight; she was a baker and iced wedding cakes, and did knitting and mending, and during the 1931 earthquake took a grandchild safely away from the chimneys and water tanks.