Ina and Alta Hutchinson Virginia City, Nevada Circa 1900 Shared by Mimi Swaney on Ancestry.com
Ina and Alta Hutchinson were the daughters of Hattie Hurd Powers and Avery Rhodes Powers. They were both born in Virginia City, Nevada. Ina was born in 1895 and Alta was born in 1899. In 1900 the family lived on the east side of "C" Street with Robert Meacham and Altana Powers Meacham. Robert Meacham was the step father to Avery, and owned the local lumber yard in town. Avery also worked at the lumberyard as an accountant.
Ina Powers circa 1897-8 shared by Mimi Swaney on Ancestry.com
Ina attended the Fourth Ward School and graduated in 1912 in a class with 6 students. She went on to graduate from the University of Nevada, Reno, and then taught at Southside School before continuing her education at the University of California, Berkeley in 1932. She worked as a speech therapist, and as a teacher of the deaf. She was affiliated with the John Tracy Clinic for the Hard of Hearing. She also taught at Pasadena Junior College. She passed away in 1948 at the age of 53.
Ina Powers before 1920 shared by Mimi Swaney on Ancestry.com
Alta Powers worked as a telegraph operator, a stenographer and a bookkeeper in Reno, Nevada. She lived with her parents in Virginia City and then later with her aunts Annie and Edith in Reno. She lived with her mother in Reno when her parent's marriage ended and Avery remarried. Later in life, she moved to California, living in Oakland and Pasadena. She led a very busy social life, and was a member of several social and business groups. She and her friend Lois Cloud were mentioned in many newspaper snippets during the 30's and 40's. She loved to travel and was an amateur photographer. She was even on a basketball team in 1932...
13 February 1932 Nevada State Journal
Alta was also a keeper of the family stories. I was fortunate to find her typed memoirs on Ancestry.com. These are priceless, as they really give a feel for living on the Comstock at the turn of the century. Pay attention to the story of the piano, as it comes up later in the story of the Hurd girls. This is the second set of Memoirs; I cannot find the first set. This was shared by an Ancestry member named azbombero in 2014.
Alta Powers as a young lady shared by Mimi Swaney on Ancestry.com
Alta passed away in 1999 at the age of 99, and is buried in Inglewood, California. It looks like she and her friend Lois Cloud were residents of a residential care facility in Jackson, California towards the end of their lives. Alta was buried in the same mausoleum section as Lois at the Inglewood Park Cemetery.
Relationship Reference: Me->Margaret Hansen Boothby->Harold Hansen->Vere Burrows Hansen->Elizabeth Jane Hurd Burrows. Hattie Hurd Powers was the second to youngest sister of Elizabeth Jane.
What's next? .....Alta was also a keeper of "the stuff". What happened to the Hurd belongings? And where was Harriet Hurd buried?
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