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April 24, 1934
Fay Hempstead, an attorney, poet, and dedicated worker in the service of the Grand Lodge of Freemasonry, died in Little Rock (Pulaski County). Hempstead wrote the first school textbook on Arkansas history, as well as other historical works, and was named poet laureate of Freemasonry—an honor previously bestowed on only two other people. He is buried at Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock.