Pleasant View or Merkle
School - Dist. #32-33 - Crooked Creek Township
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The
picture at left has to be a very early shot of Pleasant View
School in Dist. 33. On the back is written: "My first school
- Ifa Jones." It was probably taken in the 1890's.
Pleasant View was located in the northeast
corner of Section 16-T30-R28, just two miles south of the
northern boundary of Meade County. It is often called the
Merkle school as William Merkle owned much of the
surrounding land and had seven children of his own going to
this school.
District 32 and 33 were both formed in
September of 1886, but Dist. 32 was disorganized in 1899 and
made part of Dist. 33 which was active until it was
disorganized January 5, 1946... a time of school
consolidation. |
| A very early photo of Dist.
#33, Pleasant View School. Note the wagon behind the
building and the landscape around this school. |
| This cut from the 1909 Meade County Plat Book shows the
location of Pleasant View School. The dotted lines show
the boundaries of this rather large school district. |
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This modern day map shows the location of the school in
relation to other rural schools in the area. |
| Surnames of students that
attended Pleasant View were: Brown, Bruington, Cope,
Cunningham, Davis, Eacrett, Fisher, Forst, Hipp, Howell,
Jantz, Johnson, Lampe, Little, Massie, McBee, Merkle,
Miller, Nelson, Oden, Sefton, Shufelberger, Sinclair,
Stillwell, Stoltz, Thiessen, Tice, Weller, and Wetmore. |
TEACHERS:
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LAST |
FIRST |
YEARS |
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Burford |
Luella |
1886-91 |
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Jenkins |
Sadie |
1891 |
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Ellis |
Clara |
1892-93 |
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Jenkins |
Sadie |
1892 |
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Bonham |
Winnie |
1893-94 |
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Sourbeer |
Nellie |
1901-02 |
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Williams |
Florence |
1904-05 |
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Mahan |
Bessie |
1905-06 |
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Granger |
Ola |
1913-16 |
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Cather |
Beulah |
1916-17 |
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Holcomb |
Lydia Grace |
1917-19 |
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Baker |
Mrs. Fred |
1919-21 |
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Fletcher |
Blanch Miller |
1919-21 |
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Salmon |
Mary E. |
1921-22 |
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Horner |
Olive L. |
1922-24 |
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Shufelberger |
Lucille |
1924-25 |
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Salmon |
Anna |
1926-28 |
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McBee |
Hazel |
1925-26 |
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Veeder |
Mrs. H M |
1926-27 |
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Weaver |
John |
1927-28 |
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McBee |
Basil |
1928-29 |
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McBee |
Eldon |
1929-29 |
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Brown |
Eltha |
1929-30 |
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McBee |
Helen |
1930-32 |
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Copenhaver |
Virlen |
1932-33 |
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Barragree |
Murriel |
1933-34 |
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DeLong |
Ruth |
1934-36 |
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Helsel |
Lewis |
1936-38 |
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Ball |
Evelyn |
1938-39 |
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Crown |
Rachel |
1940-42 |
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Vogt |
Anna |
1942-43 |
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Pleasant View as it would have appeared in the 1930s & 40s. |
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Pleasant View, Spring of 1916 |
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1921 |
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written on the back: Girls of School District No. 33,
1926.
Rosemary Herrman, Teacher
(couldn't find a record of this teacher) |
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