Mary
Jett
Franklin
Born in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, USA
Ancestors 
Daughter of Leonidas Franklin
and Corinna Myrtis (Thomas) Franklin
Sister of
Bernard Franklin
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 86
in Athens, Clarke, Georgia, United States
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| Created 2 Mar 2016
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Biography
Mary Jett Franklin (1842-1929) [1] was born on 25 Feb 1842 in Athens, Georgia.to Col. Leonidas Franklin (1809-1867) -[2] and his wife Corinna Myrtis Thomas Franklin (1812-1882) [ref https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76874626/myrtis-franklin]
She attended a girls' school in Athens before finishing at Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens. She taught art at Lucy Cobb for several years, then went to Philadelphia to attend the Philadelphia School of Fine Arts.
She went to Europe in 1889, traveling around Spain and France before settling in Paris, where she would spend most of her adult life. She exhibited her paintings in prominent exhibitions such as the Champs de Mars over the years, and U.S. newspapers often carried stories about her success.
In 1916 she is described as being 74 years of age, 5 feet 6 1/2 inches tall with hazel eyes and gray hair.[1] Mary never married. She was an artist and traveled extensively during her lifetime. [2]
Sources
- ↑ "United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJP-38RD : accessed 2 March 2016), Mary Jett Franklin, 1916; citing Passport Application, Georgia, United States, source certificate #35770, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925, Roll 325, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,531,626.
- ↑ "United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV5Y-6B91 : accessed 2 March 2016), Mary Franklin, 1924; citing Passport Application, Georgia, United States, source certificate #372735, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925, 2430, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,738,497.
- "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZMJ-W1C : accessed 2 March 2016), Leonidas Franklin, 1860.
- Event Type: Census
- Event Date: 1860
- Event Place: Athens 216th District, Clarke, Georgia, United States
- Page: 123
- Household ID: 866
- Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
- Affiliate Publication Number: M653
- Affiliate Film Number: 116
- GS Film Number: 803116
- Digital Folder Number: 005165687
- Image Number: 00523
- Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
- Leonidas Franklin M 58 Georgia
- Corinna M Franklin F 48 Georgia
- Mary J Franklin F 18 Georgia
- Bernard Franklin M 15 Georgia
- "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCS5-XM4 : accessed 2 March 2016), Mary Franklin in household of C M Franklin, Georgia, United States; citing p. 102, family 614, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,642.
- Event Type: Census
- Event Year: 1870
- Event Place: Georgia, United States
- Page Number: 102
- Household ID: 614
- Line Number: 33
- Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
- Affiliate Publication Number: M593
- GS Film number: 000545642
- Digital Folder Number: 004263439
- Image Number: 00448
- Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
- C M Franklin F 58 Georgia
- Mary Franklin F 27 Georgia
- Emma Franklin F 8 Georgia
- Larkee Johnson M 44 Georgia
- John Jackson M 28 Georgia
- Mary Jackson F 20 Georgia
- Tom Jackson M 10 Georgia
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Eve (Warren) Mayes
An extensive biographical sketch was written by Mary Bondurant Warren and published in the Athens Historian (annual volume of papers of the Athens, GA, Historical Society), in 2017. Mrs. Warren presented a program about Miss Mary Jett Franklin at the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016, when five of her paintings were put in a special exhibit. Miss Franklin had painted these works in Tunis before World War I (she traveled to Tunis from Paris every summer to paint). When she returned to Athens from her last trip in 1922, she brought these five paintings, framed in wooden frames with passages from the Koran carved into them, back home with her. She donated them to the University of Georgia's College of Agriculture's Women's Dorm, where they hung until the 1960s when Soule Hall was remodeled. They had been stored in the Museum's archives unknown and unloved until they were found in 2014 by staff.
posted 18 Sep 2022 by Eve (Warren) Mayes
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