Anna DeCosta Hunter -- Article, Undated
Collection Overview
The DeCosta family papers are arranged in two series according to chronological family history.
1. DeCosta Family Papers, 1870-2010, documents the educational pursuits and the personal and professional lives of numerous members of the DeCosta family through photographs, diplomas, correspondence, newspaper clippings, funeral service programs and obituaries, published writings, and ephemera. Family members represented in the collection include: Martha Adams DeCosta, Benjamin Rhodes DeCosta, Anna Harrinburg DeCosta, Elizabeth DeCosta Sartor, Augustus G. Sartor, Wilbur M. Sartor, Barbara DeCosta Walden, Georgianna H. Price, Anna DeCosta Hunter, Daisy DeCosta Caffey, Robert S. DeCosta Higgins, Eugenia DeCosta Higgins, St. Julian L. DeCosta, Raymond T. DeCosta, Harold Chase DeCosta, Miriam DeCosta-Willis, Monique Ariel Sugarmon, the Hubert family (grandparents of Miriam DeCosta-Willis), Geraldine Stevenson DeCosta, and Benjamin R. DeCosta.
2. Oversize DeCosta Family Papers, 1904-1905, and Undated contains the oversize material within the collection and includes a portrait photograph of Martha Adams DeCosta and Daisy Madeline and Elizabeth Marion DeCosta's diplomas from the Avery Normal Institute.
Dates
- Creation: Undated
Creator
- From the Collection: DeCosta family (Family)
- From the Collection: Price, Georgianna H., 1934-2006 (Person)
- From the Collection: Hunter, Anna E., 1915-2012 (Person)
- From the Collection: Caffey, Daisy A., 1892-1977 (Person)
- From the Collection: DeCosta Higgins, Robert S., 1932-1964 (Person)
- From the Collection: DeCosta Higgins, Eugenia N., 1898-1993 (Person)
- From the Collection: DeCosta, St. Julian L., 1900-1964 (Person)
- From the Collection: DeCosta, Raymond T., 1904-1941 (Person)
- From the Collection: DeCosta, Harold C., 1907-1968 (Person)
- From the Collection: DeCosta-Willis, Miriam (Person)
- From the Collection: Sugarmon, Monique A. (Person)
Language of Materials
Material is in English and Spanish
Access Restrictions
No Restrictions.
Biographical / Historical
Anna DeCosta Hunter (1915-2012) was the second child of Benjamin Robert and Gertrude Cook DeCosta. She was born on September 27, 1915, in Charleston, South Carolina. She married Dr. George W. Hunter, a professor of chemistry, in 1933, and the couple had two children together: Georgianna H. and George W. Jr. She earned a bachelor's degree in home economics at Hampton University and worked as a home demonstration agent for the Department of Agriculture while her family lived in Orangeburg, South Carolina. She was also a member of the Links, Girlfriends, and the Alpha Tau Sigma Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She served as president of her chapter from 1953-1954. She was also president of the Sunlight Club, which provided medicine, paid utility bills, and assisted those in need.
Full Extent
From the Collection: 0.83 linear feet (2 full Hollinger boxes and 3 oversize folders; 64 photographs, 53 negatives; 1 CD-R disc, and 1 floppy disk)
Repository Details
Part of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture Repository
125 Bull Street
Charleston South Carolina 29424 United States
843-953-7608
averyresearchcenter@cofc.edu