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She worked as a poet, focusing on agrarian themes.<ref name="texasstate"/><ref name="list">[http://www.utexas.edu/gtw/ipage.php?id=578 The University of Texas at Austin: List of Great Texas Women]</ref> Her poems were widely published in Texas newspapers.<ref name="texasstate"/><ref>[http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/p15195coll33/item/1705 Letter to Mrs. Mary Hunt Affleck], University of Houston Libraries</ref> |
She worked as a poet, focusing on agrarian themes.<ref name="texasstate"/><ref name="list">[http://www.utexas.edu/gtw/ipage.php?id=578 The University of Texas at Austin: List of Great Texas Women]</ref> Her poems were widely published in Texas newspapers.<ref name="texasstate"/><ref>[http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/p15195coll33/item/1705 Letter to Mrs. Mary Hunt Affleck], University of Houston Libraries</ref> |
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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]].<ref name="texasstate"/> She served as Chairwoman of the textbook committee for the Texas division of the |
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]].<ref name="texasstate"/> She served as Chairwoman of the textbook committee for the Texas division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.<ref name="turner">Elizabeth Hayes Turner, ''Women, Culture, and Community : Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 174 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=-emQo5VJjfgC&pg=PA174&lpg=PA174&dq=Mary+Hunt+Affleck&source=bl&ots=l6I9KJ2rJ-&sig=Feq8q6nXhphp8223KSulfbIzvEs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=G0qcU6LFLIGmkAXbiIHICA&ved=0CFYQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Mary%20Hunt%20Affleck&f=false]</ref> In this role, she encouraged other members to focus on selecting schoolbooks highlighting Southern values and painting a balanced picture of the Civil War.<ref name="turner"/> In 1910, she gave a speech at the dedication of a Confederate monument in honor of [[Hood's Texas Brigade]] in [[Austin, Texas]].<ref>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 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=CpReuAKhBioC&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=Mary+Hunt+Affleck&source=bl&ots=9ZqZfLy0YZ&sig=dCzrrnqtL_rhacrMSwxGG3XFT20&hl=en&sa=X&ei=G0qcU6LFLIGmkAXbiIHICA&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Mary%20Hunt%20Affleck&f=false]</ref> |
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===Personal life=== |
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Revision as of 16:26, 21 March 2015
Mary Hunt Affleck | |
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| Born | Mary Hunt January 20, 1847 Danville, Kentucky |
| Died | November 28, 1932 Galveston, Texas |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Spouse | 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 Confederate advocate.
Biography
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
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "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.
- ^ a b FindAGrave: Mary Hunt Affleck
- ^ The University of Texas at Austin: List of Great Texas Women
- ^ Letter to Mrs. Mary Hunt Affleck, University of Houston Libraries
- ^ a b Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Women, Culture, and Community : Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 174 [1]
- ^ 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 [2]
- ^ 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 [3]