Zeta Brown Nichols

Zeta Brown Nichols grew up in Keswick, just east of Charlottesville. She shared memories of life in the area in the 1940s and 50s. Like many others in the Hern family, she became a teacher, initially in a one-room schoolhouse in western Albemarle County and later at Albemarle Training School. She learned of her connection to Monticello from her aunt Martha Hearns Boston, also a teacher.  

Ancestry

• David Hern

  1755–post 1827

• Moses Hern

  1779–post 1832

• David Hern

  1803–post 1829

• Zeta Brown Nichols

  1933-2019

Related People

• Martha Hearns Boston - Aunt
• Cynthia Jones Stratton - Niece

Zeta Brown Nichols (right) with her niece, Cynthia Stratton, with whom she was interviewed, July 2000

Interview Information

12 July 2000, Charlottesville, VA
Interviewees: Zeta Brown Nichols, Cynthia Stratton
Also present: Ella Hoffman