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Fannie Smith Washington (1858 – May 4, 1884) was an American educator, and the first wife of Booker T. Washington. Before her premature death in 1884, Fannie Washington aided her husband in the early development of the Tuskegee Institute.
Learn about Fannie Washington, a Black educator and activist who married Booker T. Washington and taught at Tuskegee Institute. She expanded the curriculum for Tuskegee girls and developed a home economics program.
- BIRTH AND EARLY CHILDHOOD. Many requests have been made of me to write something of the story of my life. Until recently I have never given much consideration to these requests, for the reason that I have never thought that I had done enough in the world to warrant anything in the way of an autobiography; and I hope that my life work, by reason of my present age, lies more in the future than in the past.
- BOYHOOD IN WEST VIRGINIA. We began life in West Virginia in a little shanty, and lived in it for several years. My step-father soon obtained work for my brother John and myself in the salt furnaces and coal mines, and we worked alternately in them until about the year 1871.
- LIFE AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE. After my mother and brother John had secured me a few extra garments, with what I could provide for myself, I started for Hampton about the first of October, 1872.
- HOW THE FIRST SIX YEARS AFTER GRADUATION FROM HAMPTON WERE SPENT. In the fall of 1875 I returned to Malden and was elected as the teacher in the school at Malden, the first school that I ever attended.
Sep 11, 2022 · Explore genealogy for Fannie (Smith) Washington born 1858 Malden, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States died 1884 Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, USA including research + descendants + more in the free family tree community.
- Female
- May 4, 1884
- Booker Taliaferro Washington
Washington married three times. A private and complex man, he had the trauma of losing two wives. He married one of his Malden school pupils, Fanny Norton Smith in 1882. Their daughter Portia was born in 1883. Fanny died in 1884.
In 1882, he married his Malden sweetheart, Fannie Norton Smith. She died two years later, leaving an infant daughter, Portia (who married William Sidney Pittman, an architect, in 1907). In 1885, Washington married Hampton graduate Olivia Davidson, the assistant principal of Tuskegee, who died in 1889.
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Portia is Washington ’s oldest daughter by his first wife Fannie Smith. She does not figure strongly into the narrative, but Washington mentions that she excelled at dressmaking and music performance.
