Ann Pamela Cunningham

Ann Pamela Cunningham (15 ga Agusta, 1816 - 1 ga Mayu, 1875) 'yar asalin Amurka ce wacce ta kafa Ƙungiyar Mata ta Mount Vernon a 1853 kuma ta yi aiki na shekaru a matsayin mai mulki na farko. Ta sami halartar mata shugabannin daga dukkan jihohi 30 na Tarayyar a wannan lokacin. Kungiyar ta tara duk babban birnin da ake buƙata don kammala sayen Dutsen Vernon a shekara ta 1859 kuma ta mallaki ranar 22 ga Fabrairu, ranar haihuwar Washington. Kungiyar ta ci gaba da mallakar da kuma gudanar da Dutsen Vernon, gidan George Washington da gonar.

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An haifi Cunningham a shekara ta 1816, a Rosemont Plantation, South Carolina, ga Louisa da Robert Cunningham kuma ta rayu duk rayuwarta a Rosemond Plantation na iyayenta a Laurens County, South Carolina. An sadaukar da shi ga noman auduga. Ta yi karatu a gida kuma ta koyi hawa dawakai. Mata sai suka hau gefen, kuma ta sami nakasa tun tana matashiya daga hatsarin hawa, wanda ya sa iyayenta su nemi taimakon likita a Philadelphia. Cunningham ya halarci Cibiyar Barhamville a Columbia, South Carolina . Ba ta taɓa yin aure ba. 

Yayinda take wucewa Dutsen Vernon ta jirgin ruwa a kan Kogin Potomac, mahaifiyarta ta ga yanayin da ya lalace kuma ta rubuta game da shi ga Cunningham. Ta yanke shawarar ɗaukar aikin tara kuɗi don sayen dukiyar don adanawa. Mai shi a lokacin, John Augustine Washington Jr. ya bayyana cewa masu hasashe sun ba shi $ 300,000 don dukiyar, kuma ya kusanci duka Majalisa da majalisar dokokin Virginia don sayar da shi da kadada 200 da ke kewaye da shi don $ 200,000, don kiyaye damar jama'a. Koyaya, ko Commonwealth na Virginia ko Majalisa ta tarayya ba su yarda da irin waɗannan sayayya ba (duka suna damuwa da yakin da ke gabatowa). 

Cunningham tana cikin shekaru 30 (kuma ta kasance nakasassu shekaru 21) lokacin da ta fara kamfen dinta. A ranar 2 ga watan Disamba, shekara ta 1853, ta rubuta wasika mai budewa ga "Mata na Kudu," wanda Charleston Mercury ya buga. don tara kuɗi don gidan shugaban farko. Ita, tsohon Gwamnan Massachusetts Edward Everett da Sarah C. Tracy na Troy, New York tare da taimakon lauyan Charleston James Louis Petigru sun kafa The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, suna neman wakilan mata shugabannin daga kowace jiha 30 a cikin ƙungiyar.Gerald W. Johnson, Mount Vernon:The Story of a Shrine (Random House1953) pp.14-16 Cunningham ya yi aiki a matsayin mai mulki na farko.

Ƙungiyar Mata ta Mount Vernon ta sayi Mount Vernon, gine-ginensa da kadada 200 don $ 200,000.[1] Sun yi nasara wajen tara duk kudaden da ake buƙata don kammala sayan daga John A. Washington a 1859. Wannan Kungiyar ita ce mafi tsufa a cikin kungiyar adanawa mai zaman kanta a Amurka. Har yanzu kungiyar ta mallaki kuma tana kula da dukiyar Washington kuma tana buɗewa ga baƙi kwanaki 365 a shekara.￼

An binne ta a Ikilisiyar Presbyterian ta farko a Columbia, South Carolina .

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