| Valley Grove School in 1904. Winnie
Thompson, Ethel Wilson, Marie Wilson, Perry Wilson, Andrew
Wilson, Nellie Thompson, Magie Smith (teacher?), Etna Thompson, Frank Hodson. |
| The
Valley Grove School was located in Sand Creek
Township in the NE/4 of NE/4 of Sec. 25-T34-R27, on
land owned by R.M. Painter. The school was organized
May 15, 1886, and disorganized January 5, 1946...
however there was no school at this location after
1932. The district became part of #77, then
disorganized and became part of #79, and later
consolidated with 226 Unified, and students were
sent to Meade, Englewood and #26 (Sunny Dale.)
The map at right
from the 1909 Meade County Plat Book shows how large
the school district was (grey dotted line) and the
location of the school. This was a sparsely
populated area of Meade County in 1886.
The more modern map
below shows the school in relation to roads and
other schools in the area. To put it in perspective,
Englewood is about 10 miles east of the county line
on EE road. |
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Teachers:
|
LAST |
FIRST |
YEARS |
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LAST |
FIRST |
YEARS |
|
Campbell |
Bertha |
1890-91 |
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|
Schaefer |
Emma |
1918-19 |
|
Campbell |
Nettie O. |
1891-92 |
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|
Basinger |
Rhoda |
1919-20 |
|
Schmoker |
Ella |
1892 |
|
|
Chambers |
Faith |
1920-21 |
|
Painter |
Carrie |
1893 |
|
|
Bodle |
Abbie |
1921-22 |
|
Campbell |
Carrie |
1893 |
|
|
Ross |
Hazel |
1922-23 |
|
Bayless |
Maude |
1901 |
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|
Basinger |
Rhoda |
1923-24 |
|
Painter |
Emily |
1904-05 |
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|
Staley |
May |
1924-25 |
|
Butler |
Gertrude |
1905-06 |
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Pinnick |
Emily |
1925-26 |
|
Glass |
Jay |
1913-14 |
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Ratzlaff |
Bertha |
1926-28 |
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Snul |
Dorothy |
1914-15 |
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Ratzlaff |
Norvella |
1928-30 |
|
Hammond |
Vora S |
1915-16 |
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Bohling |
Josie |
1930-32 |
|
Markley |
Hetty Fay |
1916-18 |
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We are missing the years of 1905-1915, so this
list will be incomplete, but students (that we know
of) who went to Valley Grove surnames are: Bohling,
Booman, Dick, Gifford, Grover, Hall, Harrison,
Hemphill, Hodson, Hulbert, Johannesn, Johnson,
Kitchin, Klotz, Littig, McDermott, Miller, Oram,
Painter, Pemberton, Pillsbury, Ratzlaff, Richardson,
Sell, Taylor, Thompson, Tumar, VanDuesen,
West, Wilson, and Windsor. |
