Mary Hunt Affleck

Mary Hunt Affleck
Born Mary Hunt
January 20, 1847
Danville, Kentucky
Died November 28, 1932
Galveston, Texas
Nationality American
Occupation Poet
Spouse(s) Isaac Dunbar Affleck
Children 3
Parent(s) James Anderson Hunt
Anna (Adair) Hunt
Relatives Thomas Affleck (father-in-law)

Mary Hunt Affleck (1847–1932) was an American agrarian poet from Texas and a Confederate advocate.

Early life

Mary Hunt was born on January 20, 1847 in Danville, Kentucky.[1][2] Her father was James Anderson Hunt and her mother, Anna (Adair) Hunt.[1] She graduated from the Harrodsburg Female College in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.[1] She moved to Burleson County, Texas in 1874.[1]

Career

She worked as a poet, focusing on agrarian themes.[1][3] Her poems were widely published in Texas newspapers.[1][4]

She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the United States Daughters of 1812, and the Texas Editorial Association.[1] She served as Chairwoman of the textbook committee for the Texas division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.[5] In this role, she encouraged other members to focus on selecting schoolbooks highlighting Southern values and painting a balanced picture of the Civil War.[5] In 1910, she gave a speech at the dedication of a Confederate monument in honor of Hood's Texas Brigade in Austin, Texas.[6]

Personal life

She married Isaac Dunbar Affleck (1844-1919), the son of planter Thomas Affleck (1812-1868).[1] They had three children.[1] They lived in Washington County, Texas.[7]

Death

She died on November 28, 1932, in Galveston, Texas.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "AFFLECK, MARY HUNT," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/faf02), accessed June 14, 2014. Uploaded on June 9, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
  2. 1 2 FindAGrave: Mary Hunt Affleck
  3. The University of Texas at Austin: List of Great Texas Women
  4. Letter to Mrs. Mary Hunt Affleck, University of Houston Libraries
  5. 1 2 Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Women, Culture, and Community : Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 174
  6. Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Elizabeth Hayes Turner, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Gregg Cantrell, Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas, College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2006, p. 105
  7. Rebecca Sharpless, Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2013, p. 12
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