Mary Morris (Burnett) Talbert (1866 - 1923)

Born 17 Sep 1866 in Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, United States

Wife of William Herbert Hilton Talbert — married 8 Sep 1891 in Lorain, Ohio, United States

Descendants

Died 15 Oct 1923 at age 57 in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States

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Biography

Mary (Burnett) Talbert is Notable.

Mary (Burnett) Talbert was awarded the Spingarn Medal for outstanding achievement by an African American.

Mary Burnett Talbert was a famous activist, most notably for women's suffrage.

In 1922, she became the first woman to be awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal. In 2005, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.^[1]

Mary was born 17 Sep 1866 in Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio, United States of America.^[2] She was the daughter of Cornelius J. Burnett (abt.1814-1896) and Caroline (Nichols) Burnett (abt.1827-abt.1905). She grew up in Oberlin, where her parents ran a boarding house on Main Street as well as a barber shop, with the family residing in the back of the building.^[3]

Mary graduated from Oberlin College when she was just 19 years old, and then moved to Little Rock, Arkansas. There, she started as a high school teacher and in 1887 was named Vice Principal of Little Rock’s Union High School.^[1][4]

Mary married William H. Talbert on 8 Sep 1891.^[5] (Her sister Henrietta married her husband's brother Robert.) Mary and William had one daughter: Sarah May (Talbert) Keelan (1892-1987).

After their marriage, William and Mary moved to Buffalo, New York. There, Mary rose to international prominence for her activism. In 1905, the founders of the Niagara Movement met secretly in Mary's Buffalo home to adopt the resolutions that led to the Niagara Movement.^{[1] [6]}

Some of her most notable accomplishments and leadership positions include:

• President of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC) from 1916-1920
• Delegate to the 1920 International Council of Women, held in Norway
• Leader of NACWC's successful efforts to restore Frederick Douglass's home in Anacostia, Maryland
• Served as a Red Cross nurse in France during World War I

One of the last causes she championed was Dyer's anti-lynching bill.

Mary died at her home in Buffalo, Erie County, New York on 15 Oct 1923.^[4][7] She is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo.^[8]

Research Notes

As of August 2020 there is a lot of wrong information on the FamilySearch tree, be cautious. --Murtaugh-30

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} "Mary Burnett Talbert," National Women's Hall of Fame (https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/mary-burnett-talbert/ : accessed 8 Oct 2021).
2. ↑ "United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV5B-KMQV : 16 March 2018), Mary Burnett Talbert, 1919; citing Passport Application, New York, United States, source certificate #74294, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925, 743, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ Richard Payerchin, "Oberlin historians share favorites of forgotten lore," section 'The Burnetts,' The [Lorain, Ohio] Morning Journal, 24 Apr 2019 (archived at The Wayback Machine : accessed 8 Oct 2021).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Mary B. Talbert obituary, The Buffalo [New York] Enquirer, 16 Oct 1923, p. 8, col. 4-5; image copy, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56094588/obituary-for-mary-b-talbert/ : accessed 8 Oct 2021), subscription required.
5. ↑ Lorain County, Ohio, marriage records, 1884-1889 Vol. 5, p. 234 or 806, Wm H H Talbert and Mary M Burnett, 8 Sep 1891; database with images, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Z8MS-M52M : 12 May 2020).
6. ↑ The Circle Association's African American History of western New York state, 1900 to 1935, accessed online on 15 Feb 2022.
7. ↑ "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGP5-68CS : 19 October 2019), Mary B Talbert, 1923.
8. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7405287/mary-morris-talbert : accessed 8 October 2021), memorial page for Mary Morris Burnett Talbert (17 Sep 1866–15 Oct 1923), Find A Grave: Memorial #7405287, citing Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M621-1YJ : 19 March 2020), Mary Burnett in entry for Cornelius Burnett, 1870.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M892-8L6 : 13 August 2017), Mary Burnett in household of Cornelius Burnett, Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district ED 181, sheet 621D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,042.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSXW-RLV : accessed 6 August 2020), Mary B Talbert in household of William H Talbert, Election District 1 Buffalo city Ward 7, Erie, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 53, sheet 3A, family 78, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,026.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M57B-DQN : accessed 6 August 2020), Mary B Talbert in household of William H Talbert, Buffalo Ward 5, Erie, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 42, sheet 2B, family 54, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 941; FHL microfilm 1,374,954.
• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJ2J-VY8 : accessed 6 August 2020), Mary B Talbert in household of William H Talbert, Buffalo Ward 6, Erie, New York, United States; citing ED 58, sheet 15B, line 63, family 391, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1101; FHL microfilm 1,821,101.

See also:

• Wikipedia: Mary Burnett Talbert
• Wikidata: Item Q6779134, en:Wikipedia