Guide to the Gertrude Roe Bayless Papers
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Gertrude Bayless was born in Jonesboro, Tennessee. She studied piano and languages at Bethany College and Iowa State Teachers' College. In 1921, following several years of teaching piano in Iowa, she applied to the Women's Board of Home Missions and was accepted the post of music teacher at Menaul School in Albuquerque.
In 1923 Bayless received a letter from the Board of Foreign Missions, asking if she would consider going to China as a music teacher and church musician. She accepted the offer and sailed for Hunan in August, 1923. Apart from a one-year term spent teaching in Manila, she served the Hunan Mission until 1950.
This record group consists of Bayless' memoir of her years in China, 1923-1950.
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The memoir was donated to the Historical Society by Gertrude Bayless.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared: December 1993
Stephanie Muntone, Processing Archivist
| Box | Folder | Description | Alternative Formats |
| 1 | 1 | Finding Aid to Record Group 382 | |
| 1 | 2 | Memoir, 1950 | Digital |