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About Maria Louisa Robeson
Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson 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.
Sometimes called Louisa as a child, she was born in 1853 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of African, Igbo, Lenni-Lenape Native American, and Anglo-American descent. Her parents were Charles Hicks Bustill and Emily Robinson, prominent black Quakers.
Louisa taught school and work as a tutor while her husband was the Presbyterian minister of the Witherspoon Church in Princeton, New Jersey.
By 1904 Louisa was nearly blind from cataracts. She was severely burned in a kitchen accident when an ember from the stove ignited her clothes. She died several days later with burns over 80% of her body. She was buried in Princeton Cemetery.
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Maria Louisa Robeson's Timeline
| 1853 |
November 8, 1853
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1880 |
1880
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Princeton, Mercer County, NJ, United States
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| 1881 |
1881
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| 1886 |
March 10, 1886
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NJ, United States
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| 1894 |
September 1894
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1895
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| 1898 |
April 9, 1898
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Princeton, NJ, United States
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| 1904 |
January 20, 1904
Age 50
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Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States
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Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States
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