Eulalia (Sister) Bourne
Eulalia "Sister" Bourne (Dec 23, 1892 – May 1, 1984) was a pioneer Arizona schoolteacher, rancher and writer. She taught at rural Arizona schools from 1914 to 1957. Biography Eulalia Collins was born in West Texas, the oldest of five girls. She was dubbed "Sister" by a younger sibling who couldn't pronounce Eulalia. After a sketchy education, she got her first teaching job circa 1910 in Beaver Creek, Arizona, Beaver Creek in Arizona's Verde Valley. Bourne's next teaching job was at Helvetia, Arizona, Helvetia, a mining camp in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson, Arizona, Tucson. None of her students spoke English, nor did Bourne speak Spanish. At that time, Arizona had a law forbidding the use of Spanish in school. She sent away for Spanish grammar books, and set aside the last five minutes of each day for the students to teach her Spanish. When she was 17, she married William S. Bourne. She received an uncontested divorce in 1915, continuing to use the Bourne surname thr ...
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