Mary Augusta Cunningham

1902 - 1998  (95 years)

• Name	Mary Augusta Cunningham
  Born	27 May 1902	Platteville, Grant Co, Wisconsin, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	28 Mar 1998	Whitewater, , Wisconsin, USA
  Buried	Fort Atkinson, Jefferson Co, Wisconsin, USA (Evergreen Cemetery)
  Person ID	I41549	A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
  Last Modified	9 May 2012

  
  

  Father	Wilson Cunningham,   b. Cobb, , Wisconsin, USA
  Mother	Anna Isabel Billings,   b. Cobb, , Wisconsin, USA
  Family ID	F24594	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Hoard,   b. 9 Jun 1897, Fort Atkinson, Jefferson Co, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 14 Aug 1972  (Age 75 years)
  Married	24 Oct 1925
  Last Modified	9 May 2012
  Family ID	F14753	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Birth: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XRJ5-SFH [[ Obituary: MARY C. HOARD, FORMER PUBLISHER, DIES: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN) - April 1, 1998 Deceased Name: MARY C. HOARD, FORMER PUBLISHER, DIES Mary Cunningham Hoard, former board chairman of W.D. Hoard and Sons Co. publishing firm, died Saturday at the age of 95. Mrs. Hoard, an author and longtime backer of local art and history endeavors, was the widow of William D. Hoard Jr., the third generation of his family to serve as publisher of the Hoard's Dairyman magazine and Daily Jefferson County Union newspaper. A nephew, Mark Hoard Kerschensteiner of Fort Atkinson, noted that she was the last Hoard in Fort Atkinson, though the name lives on in the publishing company and the Hoard Historical Museum, among other things. ''She was kind, considerate, generous and always thoughtful of others,'' said William D. Knox, president of W.D. Hoard & Sons Co. ''Mary was a wonderful lady in every way.'' After her husband's death in 1972, Mrs. Hoard served until 1992 as chairman of the board of the Hoard firm. She was a charter member of the Fort Atkinson Historical Society and served on its board of directors. She founded the Hoard Historical Art Show, which in April marks its 38th year. ''I guess I was born to love art,'' she once said. ''I never was that serious about painting, but I always was interested in it as a hobby.'' She donated her former home to the State Historical Society, and the structure, known as the Benson House, was moved for display among other early dwellings at the Old World Wisconsin outdoor museum at Eagle. She teamed up with longtime museum curator Hannah Swart to write a history of the area dating back to the Black Hawk War of 1832, published in 1963 as ''Footsteps of Our Founding Fathers.'' The two later wrote ''Koshkonong Country,'' which detailed Jefferson County history. Other volumes followed. Kerschensteiner said his aunt established the Fort Atkinson Community Foundation in 1973 ''with a piece of paper and then a scramble to collect funds. ''Today it boasts $6.2 million, a great deal of which goes for scholarships,'' he said. He also recalled how his aunt was a friend of artist Andrew Wyeth and went to Arizona in the early 1970s to sit for a portrait. That painting now hangs in the Mary Hoard Gallery at the museum.