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."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. 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.The University of Texas at Austin: List of Great Texas Women Her poems were widely published in Texas newspapers.Letter to Mrs. Mary Hunt Affleck, University of Houston Libraries
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.Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Women, Culture, and Community : Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 174 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.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
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.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
Affleck died on November 28, 1932, in Galveston, Texas.
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