Education
University of Texas at Austin. Columbia University.
curator historian Librarian teacher
University of Texas at Austin. Columbia University.
A teacher, historian, librarian, and museum curator, she held a Bachelor of Arts from University of Texas at Austin and an Master of Arts from Columbia University. She joined the faculty at Stephen F. Austin State University in 1923, the year the college opened, teaching Social Sciences and History. After her husband"s death in 1937, Mistress
Blount returned to SFA and until 1966 served as Director of the Rare Book Room or East Texas Collection (later called Special Collections and then East Texas Research Center).
During this same time period she was also sometimes Curator of the Stone Fort Museum and on the History faculty. She died in Nacogdoches, Texas on September 2, 1980.
She was a life member of the Texas State Historical Association, a director of the East Texas Historical Association, and a member of the American Association for State and Local History as well as other historical and genealogical societies.