| Mary Hunt Affleck | |
| Birth Name: | Mary Hunt |
| Birth Date: | January 20, 1847 |
| Birth Place: | Danville, Kentucky |
| Death Place: | Galveston, Texas |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Poet |
| Spouse: | Isaac Dunbar Affleck |
| Children: | 3 |
| Parents: | 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.
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]
Affleck 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 that portrayed the Confederacy positively in their content surrounding the American 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]
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]