About the Authors
GLENDA WALL DAYTON is currently president of the Bastrop County Historical Society Museum and Visitor Center Board of Trustees. She is a member and former president of the Bastrop Ladies Reading Circle. In 2016, she chaired the Reading Circle ’s Storytellers Committee and subsequently led the decade-long project to write and publish the Bastrop Literary Knights. Retired from the mutual fund industry, she now lives in Austin, Texas with Maine Coon cats, Loyd and Ruby.
BRENDA HERMAN UPTAIN is a member and former president of the Bastrop Ladies Reading Circle. She volunteers at the Bastrop County Historical Society Museum and is treasurer of the American Business Women’s Association Treaty Oak Chapter. Before retiring to Bastrop’s Lost Pines, where she delights in seeing wildlife daily, Brenda worked thirty-six years in data analysis for the US government.
Bastrop History Editor
ROBBIE MOORE SANDERS’ ancestors arrived in Bastrop in 1839. She was President of the Bastrop County Historical Society and served for fifteen years as a Society Trustee. She was Marker Chair for the Bastrop County Historical Commission and Chair of the City of Bastrop Historic Fairview Cemetery Board. Robbie, with Sandra Chipley, wrote Historic Homes of Bastrop, Texas, published by Texas A&M Press.
