Birdie Orena Stringer was born August 7, 1892 in Van Zandt County Texas. Her parents were Nancy Ann Cox (1861-1905) and Isaiah Franklin Stringer (1857-1930). She was a Texas school teacher who was trained at the North Texas State Normal in 1918 and at the Tyler Normal School. She taught at the Hobbs School and Wilsons Chapel in Ben Wheeler; Tundra, Texas; Martin’s Mill; Rocky; Athens; and Black Jack, Texas. She was the assistant principal at the Lone Star School in Tundra, Texas. She married Guy Maurice Williamson (1883-1954), a traveling Baptist Texas Preacher. They had two children, Jesse Isaiah Williamson and Nancy Williamson. Birdie died November 8, 1975 in Grapevine Texas.
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Acquisition Note: Source: Donation.
Preferred Citation:Birdie Stringer Collection, University of North Texas Special Collections
Scope and Contents: Papers, 1915-1965, of Birdie Orena Stringer (married surname is Williamson), a Texas school teacher. The collection consists of certificates documenting her teacher training, personal papers, and photographs of the places she lived and worked. Locations included in collection are: Denton, Tundra, and Tyler, Texas.