| Mary Hunt Affleck | |
|---|---|
 Mary Hunt Affleck, from a 1919 publication | |
| Born | Mary Hunt January 20, 1847 Danville, Kentucky |
| Died | November 28, 1932(1932-11-28) (aged 85) 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 (January 20, 1847 – November 28, 1932) was an American agrarian poet from Texas and a supporter of the Confederate States of America.
Early life
Mary Hunt was born on January 20, 1847, in Danville, Kentucky. Her father was James Anderson Hunt and her mother, Anna (Adair) Hunt. She graduated from Harrodsburg Female College in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. She moved to Burleson County, Texas in 1874.
Career
Affleck worked as a poet, focusing on agrarian themes. Her poems were widely published in Texas newspapers.
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. She served as chairwoman of the textbook committee for the Texas division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. In this role, she encouraged other members to focus on selecting schoolbooks that portrayed the Confederacy positively in their content surrounding the American Civil War. In 1910, she gave a speech at the dedication of a Confederate monument in honor of Hood's Texas Brigade in Austin, Texas.
Personal life and death
She married Isaac Dunbar Affleck (1844–1919), the son of planter Thomas Affleck (1812–1868). They had three children. They lived in Washington County, Texas.
Affleck died on November 28, 1932, in Galveston, Texas.
References
- ^ "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.
- The University of Texas at Austin: List of Great Texas Women
- Letter to Mrs. Mary Hunt Affleck, University of Houston Libraries
- ^ Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Women, Culture, and Community : Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 174
- 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
- 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
- 1847 births
- 1932 deaths
- Writers from Danville, Kentucky
- People from Washington County, Texas
- Poets from Texas
- 19th-century American poets
- 20th-century American poets
- American women poets
- 20th-century American women writers
- 19th-century American women writers
- Poets from Kentucky
- People from Burleson County, Texas
- Members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy