Mary Hunt Affleck

Mary Hunt Affleck (January 20, 1847 – November 28, 1932) was an American agrarian poet from Texas and a Confederate advocate.

Mary Hunt Affleck
An older white woman with grey hair in a curly updo, wearing a high frilled collar and a cameo or brooch at the throat
Mary Hunt Affleck, from a 1919 publication
Born
Mary Hunt

January 20, 1847
Danville, Kentucky
DiedNovember 28, 1932(1932-11-28) (aged 85)
Galveston, Texas
NationalityAmerican
OccupationPoet
SpouseIsaac Dunbar Affleck
Children3
Parent(s)James Anderson Hunt
Anna (Adair) Hunt
RelativesThomas Affleck (father-in-law)

Early life

Mary Hunt was born on January 20, 1847, in Danville, Kentucky.[1] Her father was James Anderson Hunt and her mother, Anna (Adair) Hunt.[1] She graduated from 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][2] Her poems were widely published in Texas newspapers.[1][3]

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.[4] In this role, she encouraged other members to focus on selecting schoolbooks highlighting Southern values and painting a balanced picture of the Civil War.[4] In 1910, she gave a speech at the dedication of a Confederate monument in honor of Hood's Texas Brigade in Austin, Texas.[5]

Personal life and death

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.[6]

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

References
  1. "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. The University of Texas at Austin: List of Great Texas Women
  3. Letter to Mrs. Mary Hunt Affleck, University of Houston Libraries
  4. Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Women, Culture, and Community : Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 174
  5. 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
  6. 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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