5/19/2023 0 Comments Fearless Mary by Tami Charles![]() ![]() In 1884, Mother Amadeus was sent to Montana Territory to establish a school for Native American girls at St. After Dunne's wife died, he sent Fields and his late wife's five children to live with his sister Mother Mary Amadeus in Toledo, Ohio where she was Mother Superior of an Ursuline convent. There, she encountered Judge Edmund Dunne and ultimately worked in his household as a servant. ![]() After the American Civil War ended in 1865, she was emancipated and found work as a chambermaid on board the Robert E. Biography Early life and career įields was born into slavery in Hickman County, Tennessee c. This enabled the USPS to establish Mary Fields' contribution as the first African-American female star route mail carrier in the United States. Author Miantae Metcalf McConnell provided documentation discovered during her research about Mary Fields to the United States Postal Service Archives Historian in 2006. ![]() She drove the route for two four-year contracts, from 1895 to 1899 and from 1899 to 1903. mail from Cascade, Montana, to Saint Peter's Mission. įields had the star route contract for the delivery of U.S. 1832 – December 5, 1914), also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary, was an American mail carrier who was the first Black woman to be employed as a star route postwoman in the United States. Freighter, cook, domestic worker, star route mail carrierįirst African American woman star route mail carrier in the U.S. ![]()
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