Looking Backwards
Scope and Contents
Hempton's memoirs reveal her life as a child on a family farm in southwest Missouri; the family's move to Columbia, near Goldfield, Nevada, in 1904; childhood on the Nevada frontier; education, early teaching career in rural Nevada schools, and married life.
Dates
- 1975
Creator
- Hempton, Lela Halsell (Person)
Restrictions
Collection is open for research. Materials must be used on-site; advance notice suggested. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Biographical Note
Lela Halsell Hempton was born in Missouri in 1896 and moved to Nevada in 1904. She was educated in Nevada and taught at several one-room schools in Nevada, as well as schools in San Francisco. She married Gordon Hempton in about 1927 and moved to Sacramento, California, where she lived at the time her memoirs were written.
Extent
0.4 Linear Feet (1 item (17 pages))
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Lela Halsell Hempton's memoirs reveal her life as a child on a family farm in southwest Missouri; the family's move to Columbia, near Goldfield, Nevada, in 1904; childhood on the Nevada frontier; education, early teaching career in rural Nevada schools, and married life. Material from 1975.
Arrangement
Arranged without hierarchy.
Ownership and Custodial History
Nevada women's archives.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
E.V. Pat Riley; Prescott, Arizona
Creator
- Hempton, Lela Halsell (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Looking Backwards
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department Repository
Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
1664 N. Virginia St.
Reno Nevada 89557-0322 USA
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