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Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson (November 8, 1853 – January 20, 1904) was a Quaker schoolteacher; the wife of the Reverend William Drew Robeson of Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey and the mother of Paul Robeson and his siblings. [1]
Paul Robeson was born in Princeton, N.J. to William D. Robeson, a Presbyterian, and schoolteacher Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson, a Quaker. In 1858, his father had escaped from enslavement in North Carolina via the Underground Railroad.
29 de abr. de 2022 · Death: January 20, 1904 (50) Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States (burns sustained in kitchen fire) Place of Burial: Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. Immediate Family: Daughter of Charles Hicks Bustill and Emily Bustill. Wife of Rev. William Drew Robeson.
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Rev. William Drew Robeson
- Pennsylvania
- November 8, 1853
Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson. Paul Robeson’s mother, Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson (1853–1904), a descendant of free Blacks. Maria married William Robeson in 1878. They had seven children, the youngest of whom was Paul Leroy Robeson, born in 1898. Maria was a former teacher of black children.
Paul Robeson's mother, Maria Louisa Bustill, died when he was six years old. The Bustill family is one of the oldest black families in America. During the Revolutionary war, her great grandfather, Cyrus Bustill, baked bread for the Continental troops in Philadelphia, and was a co-founder of the Free African Society for free blacks in 1787.
Paul’s mother, Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson, was from a family of prominent, free, Black Quakers from Philadelphia. Her family worked for the abolition of slavery and promoted trade and business among other freed Blacks.
Paul Robeson’s mother, Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson (1853–1904), a descendant of free Blacks. Maria married William Robeson in 1878. They had seven children, the youngest of whom was Paul Leroy Robeson, born in 1898. Maria was a former teacher of black children. Nearly blind from cataracts, she died from burns received in a kitchen fire in ...
