| LC control no. | n 93120077 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Fields, Mary, approximately 1832-1914 |
| Variant(s) | Fields, Mary, b. ca. 1832 Fields, Stagecoach Mary, approximately 1832-1914 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1832~ |
| Death date | 1914 |
| Place of birth | Hickman County (Tenn.) |
| Place of death | Cascade County (Mont.) |
| Affiliation | Robert E. Lee (Steamboat) Ursuline Convent of the Sacred Heart (Toledo, Ohio) Wells, Fargo & Company |
| Profession or occupation | Storytellers Letter carriers |
| Found in | Miller, R.H. The story of "Stagecoach" Mary Fields, c1995: CIP galley (Mary Fields; b. Hickman Co., Tenn. around 1832; 2nd woman ever to carry the U.S. mail) African American National Biography, accessed December 27, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Fields, Mary; Black Mary; stagecoach Mary; frontiersman, pioneer, postal official; born in 1832 in Hickman County, Tennessee, United States; slave of the Dunne family, owners of a Hickman County plantation until the end of the Civil War; storyteller aboard the steamboat the Robert E. Lee; housekeeper at the Ursuline Convent of the Sacred Heart in Toledo, Ohio, in Mother Amadeus' convent (1878); mission's resident housekeeper, building foreman, and jack-of-all-trades at St. Peter's Mission, outside of Great Falls, Montana (1885); moves to town of Cascade, begins working for Wells Fargo Company a mail coach driver (1895-1901); becomes major figure in town until her death; died in 1914 in Cascade County, Montana, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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