Sarah E Olds

Olds as born in Iowa, the youngest daughter in a family of ten. Her father, Alexander Thompson, had migrated from Scotland to Canada where he met and married Mary Anne Harper, a recent migrant from Irland. They settled on a farm near Ottumwa, Iowa. Sarah moved to California in 1897, settling in the town of Stent, some eight miles southwest of Sonora. There she met and married Albert J. Olds, a miner and a member of a distinguished California family. In 1908, after living in Reno for two years,...See more

Olds as born in Iowa, the youngest daughter in a family of ten. Her father, Alexander Thompson, had migrated from Scotland to Canada where he met and married Mary Anne Harper, a recent migrant from Irland. They settled on a farm near Ottumwa, Iowa. Sarah moved to California in 1897, settling in the town of Stent, some eight miles southwest of Sonora. There she met and married Albert J. Olds, a miner and a member of a distinguished California family. In 1908, after living in Reno for two years, the family moved to a desert homestead about thirty miles north of town. In 1931, the family moved back to Reno, where Albert soon died. Sarah, her later years devoted to traveling and revising this account of her Nevada homestead, died at the age of 88. See less