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Description: The Van Skye School, Hilda is fourth from the left on the second row. This is taken from page 6 of the Cunningham family scrapbook "Hilda."

Description: Imaged from around Gainesville, Texas, including the Cooke County Courthouse (upper left), Gainesville High School (upper right) and train station. Hilda's mother and father are in the lower left. This is taken from page 7 of the Cunningham family…

Description: Scenes of Gainesville, Texas, including a postcard of the First Presbyterian Church, downtown Gainesville, and the Majestic Theater. This is taken from page 8 of the Cunningham family scrapbook "Hilda."

Description: Photographs and text, taken from page 9 of the Cunningham family scrapbook "Hilda."

After her father died, Hilda and her mother lived at Rose Hill, just outside of Gainesville, Texas. The image in the bottom left shows Hilda, her mother, Aunt…

Description: Photographs of Hilda's family at Rose Hill, near Gainesville, Texas.

Taken from page 10 of the Cunningham family scrapbook "Hilda."

Description: Hilda (far left) with friends during her high school years in Gainesville, Texas in 1915. Also pictured is the First Presbyterian Church.

Taken from page 11 of the Cunningham family scrapbook "Hilda."

Description: A page from the 1918 "Yucca", the yearbook of North Texas State Normal College in Denton, Texas where Hilda portrayed a "queen" in the senior circus. Hilda was also on the staff of the Avesta, the student literary magazine. In the upper right…

Description: When Hilda's father died while she was in college, she received a teaching certificate and postponed her education in order to take a job teaching near her home in Gainesville, Texas.

Description: Hilda attended the University of Texas from 1919-1921. Taken from page 14 of the Cunningham family scrapbook "Hilda."

Description: Newsclipping, photographs, and a letter, taken from page 15 of the Cunningham family scrapbook "Hilda."

Thomas McHutchin Cunningham (Tom-Pastor) and Hilda were friends and courted for two years prior to their marriage on February 14, 1923. Tom…