Mary Pauline Davis photographic album

File — Container: BCA 0342 folder one

Identifier: BCA 0342

Scope and Contents

Records include one envelope with four photographs -- two full body shots of Mary Pauline David (Polly), one headshot, and one full body shot with her first husband, Duncan. The photo album is bound in a black leather cover with the first page dedicating the volume to the Stuart Robinson School Graduating class of 1930 with notes from Polly's students. The photography pages begin in 1927 with each photograph labelled with a name or place.

Dates

Creation: 1927-1930

Biographical / Historical

Mary Pauline David (Polly) was bon on March 8, 1906 in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Polly attended the University of Kentucky. August 19, 1948, she married Fairfield, Virginia's Duncan Henry Goodman (1909-1955). She remarried after Goodman's death to a Mr. Poindexter, of whom she also outlived. Polly had no children between both marriages. She taught the youngest students at the Stuart Robinson Presbyterian Mission School (1913-1957). On July 31, 1996, she died at the Sunnyside Retirement Community.

Full Extent

1 Volumes

Language of Materials

Latin

Subjects

Geographic

Letcher County (Ky.)

Topical

Settlement schools -- Kentucky.

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: A finding aid
Status: Completed
Author: Lauren Lieske, student archivist.
Date: April 2026
Description rules: International Standard for Archival Description - General
Language of description: English
Script of description: Latin