The cover of a newsletter-type publication by the Good Templars. From the collection of the California State Archives in Sacramento. No date, but probably the home that Hazel's family lived in. According to Mrs. Epstein (Haswell Leask's daughter), Hazel's birth mother, Mrs. Shepherd, was widowed when Hazel was 8 years old. She kept her daughter, Grace, age 2, but Hazel, Dan (age 4), Russel (age 6), and Freida (age 10) were sent to the orphanage at Vallejo. Laura (age 14) was sent to work on her won. Freida left the orphanage in a few years and started working. Hazel took a tour of Good Templar branches in northern California, as Haswell's story goes, and while they met her on this trip, the Netherton's decided to adopt her. Mrs. Epstein describes the Nethertons as loving people, hungry for children.