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Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois (1831 – 1885) was an American domestic worker. She was born a free woman as the granddaughter of a freedman landowner who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
8 sty 2022 · She was the daughter of Sally Lampman/Lamphouse and Othello Burghardt, the mother of famous intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois, and the great-granddaughter of manumitted slave Tom Burghardt who briefly served in the American Revolutionary War.
Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois (1831-1885), is buried in Mahaiwe Cemetery, her grave unmarked. The family of W.E.B.ʼs generation are in a plot on the north side of the cemetery; his grandparents and others are on the south side, where itʼs likely Mary was interred.
Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, to Alfred and Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois. [3] Mary Silvina Burghardt's family was part of the very small free black population of Great Barrington and had long owned land in the state.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, to Alfred and Mary Silvina (née Burghardt) Du Bois.
27 paź 2009 · Two years after his birth his father, Alfred Du Bois, left his mother, Mary Silvina Burghardt. Du Bois became the first person in his extended family to attend high school, and did so at his...
When Mary Silvina Burghardt was born in 1831, in Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Othello Burghardt, was 42 and her mother, Sarah Sally Lampman, was 38. She married Alfred Alex Du Bois on 5 February 1867, in Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States.
