EP. 112: A Texas mother- Mary Christian Burleson

Wise About Texas

Ken Wise

Texan, Places & Travel, Education, Texas, Cowboy, History, Society & Culture, Culture, Jacinto, Texans, San

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

What is it about Texas mothers? They are tough, smart, and resourceful. Nothing phases a Texas mom, they can do it all! That was certainly true of Mary Christian Burleson. Mary was a mom to 7 and stepmom to 12. She was a pioneer, a farmer and a stock raiser. She faced hostile Indians and the tragedy of widowhood. She lost a child but raised, educated and inspired even more. She was a businesswoman and education advocate. In short, she saw it all. Oh, and she founded a town. Learn about a remarkable Texas mom in the latest episode of Wise About Texas.

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0:00.0	Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas. I'm your host Ken Wise. Thank you very much for tuning in today and thank you for loving Texas and Texas history.
0:18.0	This episode is being released in 2022 right around Mother's Day. That's going to play into today's story.
0:25.0	But before I get there, I want to tell you a couple of things, a couple of fun things I've been able to do recently in connection with Texas history.
0:32.0	First, I got to attend Texas. recently in connection with Texas history.
0:33.0	First, I got to attend Texas History Day
0:36.0	put on by the Texas State Historical Association.
0:39.0	This is the official Texas competition
0:42.0	in connection with the National History Day and hundreds of kids
0:45.9	from 9 to 18 got to come to Austin to compete for a chance to go to the National History Day's
0:51.7	finals. They made displays, different projects, they did
0:56.1	websites, they did different kinds of performances. It was really amazing how hard they worked
1:01.9	and how wonderful all those projects were. It was a real privilege
1:05.8	to be able to see it all and as always the staff of the Texas State Historical Association
1:11.6	did a phenomenal job of putting it all on.
1:15.0	Also in that same week, I got to testify on behalf of the Texas State Historical Association
1:21.6	before the 1836 Committee.
1:24.7	1836 Committee was created by the Texas legislature in the 2021 session
1:29.4	to produce some written material on the state's history that's going to be distributed around
1:35.1	the state.
1:36.1	And they asked various history-related organizations to come and provide some information about
1:41.6	what those organizations are doing in an overview of their work and I'm
1:46.2	currently second vice president of the TSA and so I was in I was asked to go represent the TSA
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