Volume 3, Number 7 Spring 1969

The Bald Knob School

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considerable amount of labor to bring all this earth together.

They may have been used as burial mounds. One not far from the school seemed to have been used for this purpose but by an early settler or during the War. While playing with a couple of other boys on this mound which was covered with buck brush and young cedars I saw a pit in the top about three by six feet. I asked one of the boys why it had been dug and he replied, "I heard that money had been buried there."

Hoping some stray coins might have been overlooked, I hunted around in it. What I found was some pieces of rotted boards that had once been painted black and had lain there for years, a couple of old fashioned square wrought-iron nails still in them. This may have been part of a treasure chest, but more likely, a coffin.

Some of those who taught at the old Bald Knob were Elsie Russell, Mr. Will John son of Kissee Mills, Mrs. Leathers, Tolitha Whelchel, and Dell Whelchel. These all taught at the old school.

I will name some of the pupils as I remember them. Some of them may still be living in the hills. Others like myself have long left the country and some are no longer living. There were the Persingers, Mary, Sarah, Lizzie, Frank, Charlie and Marty, Neva, Archie and Jessie Coulter, Martha, Annie and John Merdith, Smith Hatfield, Owen Black- well, Ernie Beeler, Celia Dunn, Lemmie and Millie Collins, Mary, Mandy and Charlie May, Billie Jones, Etta and Floyd Barber, Cora and Dora Stewart, Clarence, Mamie and Johnny Muller, Earnie, Eddy and Millard Stallcup, Henry, Lilly Floyd and Flora Trammel, Jim, Alpha, Bertie, Della and Sam Awbery, Clint and Lonnie ONeil, Bessie, George and Clint Hensley, Marion Bohanon, May and Maude Snyder.

There were no doubt others that I have missed, but I am sure that those that are still living wherever they may be, somtimes think back to the old school days and the old school house in the woods where the three R's were taught.

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