Schools

	Ruins of Wallingford School.
	Kirkendall School class photo in 1906.
	Undated Kirkendall School.
	Martin School class photo in 1906.
	Undated & unidentified class photo. Back of photo has notation "Alva West, Fearis, KY".
	Undated & unidentified class photo.
	Garrison School taken some time between 1910 and 1913. This building preceded the brick building which was dismantled several years ago. Robert "Bob" Brewer, who loaned this picture, says he does not know the names of the students but his uncle, John Brady Lewis, was the teacher (with bow tie) and that he taught only from 1909 to 1913, when he went to work for the railroad (1914 to 1955).
	The Blankenship School sat in the bottom near the foot of Stone Hill. The building in this picture was removed many, many years ago. Mrs. Betty Ruggles informs us that the picture was taken around 1945 and that the only people she can identify are Allen Walters, John Henry Blankenship, Karen Sue Stone, and Alton Waters in the front row and in the second row is Irene Carver and Betty Carver. Perhaps readers can identify others. The teacher, standing at the right, was Elaine Stone.
	54 years ago in October, 1949 (St. Paul, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grades): first row, Carolyn Riffe, Tommy Hannah, Janice Smith, Robert Blaine, Dale Greene, and Robert Powers; second row, Ralph Lee Wells, Edna Carol Bivens, Elmo Veach, Mrs. Virginia Hannah (the teacher), unknown, Hildreth Blaine, and Noah Sammons; Third row, Dolly Thayer, Nancy Sparks, -------- Musser, and Jane Wilburn; Fourth row, Texine Greene, Kenneth Knight, Pauline Dowdy, Charles (Bud) Smith, Betty Cooper, Sammy Joe Bennett, and Emma Wilburn; Fifth row, unknown, Richard Powers, Lois Greene, Freda Greene, Fred Sammons and Robena Lee Powers.
	St. Paul 52 years ago in September 1951: fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grades at St. Paul School. Top row, Elmo Veach, Janice Smith, Carrie Bradley, Emma Wilburn, Frieda Ruth Greene, Sammy Joe Bennett, Paul Walters, Lloyd Pack, Phyllis Aldridge, Virginia Hannah (teacher); middle row, Louise Pack, Edna Carol Bivens, Hildreth Blaine, Betty Walters, Dale Greene, James Robert Lute, Ronald Greene, Donald Walters, Elijah Greene, and Ronald Veach; Bottom row, Patty Ratliff, Carol Walters, Francis Wells, Carl Morton Bradley, Tommy Hannah (with sister, Ernestine Hannah), Noah Sammons, Ralph Sammons, Gary S. Blaine, Carolyn Riffe and Bobby Boggs.
	Sand Hill School, 1891: first row, John D. Herbert, Thomas M. Wilson, Fred V. Martin, James Wills, Henry J. Vance, Charley Heerbert, Mary D. Herbert, James Downing (trustee), Carrie F. Freeman Irwin, Mary Helton, Annie Himes and Fanny Helton; second row, Robert Wills, Elzie Downing, Tom Soister, Willie Gerike, John Soister, Tom Bryant, Bruce Wilson, Emma Downing Hendrickson, Ruth Gilkison, Carrie Downing, Lucy Copens Williams, Charley Bonhajo, Tela Herbert Norris, Anna Laura F. Irwin, Nellie Wilson Grover, Henry Holton, Ona Herbert Hoop, Grace Wilson Garrett Pfeffer, Jennie Wilson Garrett, Lizzie Holton, Eula Scott Virgin, Mary Wilson Lang, Kate Holton, Bertie Wilson Stamper, Walls, Lela Herbert Webster, Jennie Downing, Cora Wilson Moore, Julia Shamblin and Stella Himes Irwin; third row, John Downing, Tony Gerike, Jackie Werline, Allie Pollard, Grover Herbert, Willie Herbert, (the name "Stone" inserted here), Edward Gilkison, Robert Werline, Nellie Downing, Joe Wills, George Scott, Lola Bonhajo, Bertie Gerike, Lillie Soister Martin, Aggie Manuel Taylor Stone, Eva Stone, Nellie Wills Carr, Daisy Soister, Laura Gilkison Darnell, Mary Downing and Mason Wilson Gilkison.
	Valley School about 1912-13. In this picture, we are unable to list the identities of all the students, but we have been told that William Willim, Harry Willim, Helen Willim, Bernice Willim, Maurice Willim, and Bill Redden are in it but their location cannot be identified. This picture will be put on display at the Vanceburg Depot Museum soon.
	Opal Lewis Carver has provided this photo of Scotts Branch School circa 1930-31. Mrs. Carver taught at the school for two years (1930-32). She had also attended the school for all eight grades.
	Ribolt School, taken about 1916 or 1917. Seated, left to right, Charles Thoroughman, Charley Collins, George Wilson, Orville Hamlin, Cecil Hyrne, Bruce Hamlin, Roy May, Buell Young, Adrian Dugan and Neivell Rudder; second row, Arzella Thoroughman, Fannie Collins, unknown, Lula Hyrne, Lorena May, Ella Marde May and Dora Lou Young; back row, Omar Hamlin (teacher), Rachel Caudicegley, ? Hyrne, Bernice Carr, Lena May, Stella Thoma, ? Hyrne, Glenn May, ? Shaw, Luann Wilson, Lovell Harrison, ? Nash, Wilbur Thoroughman, Otha Thoroughman and Emry Shaw. (Photo submitted by Dora Lou Young-Polley)
	Ramona Sorrell recently provided this photo of Valley School taken sometime around 1910. The photo belonged to her mother, Clara Evans. Pictured are, front row, Bertha Burch, Walter Evans, Fred Evans, Elvira Hobbs, Vena Hobbs, Martin Dickson, Rachel Kegley, Bessie Kegley, Bertie ?, Philip Evans and Orrie Carrington; second row, Oscar Harris, Oat Kegley, Clarence Kegley, Gertrude Evans, Inamae Dickson, Ethel Evans, Chet Alverone, Robert Evans, Arthur Dickson and Ernest Kegley; third row, Jane Harris, Norma Hobbs, Thelma Hobbs, Austie Kegley and Edna Kegley; fourth row, Clara Evans, Vicie Kegley and Lana Dickson; last row, Rebecca Evans, Sarah Carrington and Lizzie Kegley.
	The first picture is that of the first school fair parade which took place in 1913 (10 years after the County Fair was organized). This picture was originally published in the Herald in the 1970s and gave the date as 1914. A few days after the paper came out, Mr. John Q. Adams, former Lewis County School Superintendent, wrote from his retirement home in Florida that the first school parade was during his administration and that it happened in 1913, not 1914.
	The date, location, and identity of the school and its students are not known. We believe that it was in the general area of Petersville and probably in the early 1900s.
	On Saturday, June 26, 1965, the 1933 class of Lewis County High School held a reunion of their class, with several of their spouses and eight of their teachers attending at the new high school, which opened its doors on September 10, 1965, to its first students. Two of the major accomplishments of the class of 1933 were the publishing of the first editions of the school newspaper, the School Spun, and the school yearbook, Days of Daze. Charles Staggs, president of the class and master of ceremonies, called on the principal, Prof. Glasgow to say a few words to the class. Standing on the front row (not in order) are Robert Fabe and Marian Timmer Fabe, of Cincinnati; Charles Staggs, Leroy Dorsey, of Flemingsburg; Mrs. James Collier (Frances Baskett), of Cynthiana; Pat O'Neil, of Lawrenceburg, Indiana; Arthur Williams, of Stanton, Ky.; Miss Carrie Goldenburg, Thomas W. Rowland, and Lena Wells Voiers, of Vanceburg. In the second row are Anna Plummer Davis, Stella Webster Carver, Joe Carver, Winnie Staggs; in the third row, Ned Lemaster, Hazel Lowder Lemaster, and Ralph Davis; on the 4th row, Harlan "Rub" Voiers and Ann Staggs.
	These 1924 high school students are standing beside the first high school then located in the old school building on the west end of Second Street. In the back row is Bess Forman, Helen (Huffman) Rayburn, Velma Keyser, and Audra Abbott; in the front row, Evelyn Hays, Edith (Lykins) Hamm, and Margaret (Lykins) Willim.
	This school and its students have not been identified. The teacher, standing at the far right, is Bruce Lykins (1891-1935). We can speculate that the date of the picture is 1901, because that was Bruce Lykins' first year of teaching, and a note on the picture says "Bruce's first school".
	These high school students (sometime between 1923 and 1925) are standing beside the old lower school on West Second Street. Those identified are: front row, Norene Henry, Alice Staley, unidentified, unidentified, Evelyn Hayes, ----- Ruggles, and Audry Abbott; second row, Bertram Stricklett, Marian Ackman, Helen Huffman, Leola Folmer, Margaret Willim, Edith Lykins, Velma Keyser, Bruce Pollitt, and Mike McKee; in the third row are: Donald Grote, Mark (Luther) Stone, unidentified, Elwood Dillow, Teddy Applegate, Marian Smith, Arthur Vance, and Forrest Neal.
	Orange Valley, School District 69, from the Helen L. Smith collection. Kenneth and Donna Carver of Vanceburg have informed us that the school was located on their farm, known by many as the late Jack Kibbey farm, at Petersville.
	Martin School, from the Helen L. Smith collection.
	Riverside Seminary from the Lewis County Herald collection.
	Stone's School, District 66, later known as Scotts Branch. Back row, left to right, Abigail Liles Cooper, Eva Stone (Bates), Minnie Roe, Eda Laura Stone (Edington), James I. Roe, Charles A. Roe, Sylvester W. Lewis; second row from top, William Ray Roe, Alexander Bloomfield, Sophie J. Bloomfield (Fannin), James Ralph Bloomfield, Cynthia J. Roe (Horsley), Etta J. Lewis (Rayburn), Lewis O. Hinton, and Willie Pitts (the teacher); third row from top, Clarinda Liles Kilgallen, with Frank Kilgallen on her lap, John Harlan Roe, George H. Roe, Calista Roe with Oma Roe (Cooper) on her lap, Cynthia Stone (Stafford) Rebecca R. Stone (Bates), Grace Cooper (Mathewson), John Kilgllen, Olney Cooper; bottom row includes John A. Bloomfield, "Cornett" Stone, James R. Lewis, Ezekiel Stone, James E. Stone, and Willie Stone. Picture taken November 3, 1898.
	The Poston School on the ridge between Petersville and Wallingford near Browning's Orchard. When the school was closed in the 1950s the pupils were sent to Wallingford. The writer's cousin, Marian M. Jolly, taught there in the very early 1950s. The building, now owned by the Browning family, is used for storage. (Photos by WIlliam Florence)
	Another view of Poston School.
	The early Carrs School complete with bell. We think this stood facing Route 8 near the Carrs-Fairmount Road. This picture was taken in 1923. (Photo provided by Bettie Call Lewis.)
	The front of the new Carrs School in 1935. Several schools in the county were built in the same style but most of them have been destroyed. Some of them were Valley (destroyed by a storm), Glen Springs (collapsed) and perhaps Kinniconick. The persons in this photo are too distant to identify. (Photo provided by Bettie Call Lewis.)
	Carrs eighth grade taken near one of the back doors of the school house some time in the 1930s. Back row, left to right, Ray Lee, Russell McCann and Billy Goldenburg; from row, Geneva Kates, Stuart Vergne and ? Gilkerson. (Photo provided by Bettie Call Lewis.)
	Students at Coles School below Vanceburg. The teacher was Miss Carrie Goldenberg, the woman sitting in the center. Date and names unknown. (Photo from Fannie [Scott] May collection.)
	Miss Carrie Goldenberg's Latin Club about 1933/34 at Lewis County High School. Miss Goldenberg is standing at the far right in the middle row. (Photo from Fannie [Scott] May collection.)
	Taken about 1919/1920, this is a photo of Miss Sarah Keyser's third grade class. Location unknown but may have been at the Riverside Seminary building. Back row: Sarah Keyser (teacher); Ruth Plummer, Helen Plummer, Opal Lewis, Edna Webster, Bernice Liles, Dell Mofford, Nanny Stapleton, Beulah Boyd, Virginia Cobb, Dolly Bowlin, Donald Murphy, and Earl Lewis; middle row: Dolly Faulkner, Fannie Johnson, Vilos Gilbert, Felicitis Keyser, Emma McKee, last two unknown; front row: Orville Webster, Eugene Browning, Maurice Carroll, Roy Chamblin, Charles Hammond, George Irwin, (unknown), Roland Johnson, (unknown), (unknown), and Maurice Hamm. (Photo from Fannie [Scott] May's collection.)
	Hoop's School on Massie's Fork of Crooked Creek. (September 18, 2001, Dennis Brown)
	Valley Schoolhouse succumbed to the elements last week during a rainstorm passing through the area. The schoolhouse at Charters was constructed in the 1930s as a WPA project and had been showing signs of deterioration for several years. (July 24, 2001, William Florence)
	The old Tannery School, which stood on the banks of Kinniconick until 1945. This photo is undated, but we believe it was taken some time in the 1930s. The back is signed by Lillie Lewis Sargent who taught there. She stated that Sylvester "Vess" Lewis went to the school. (Photo Submitted by Helen Liles Lewis)
	The 1929 Christmas program at Mosby School. (Program provided by David Bryant)
	This Pentecostal Church at Mosby stands on the site of the old Mosby School which was in existence as early as the 1870s. (Photo by Bill Florence)
	This recently remodeled building was once the Armstrong School, later the place of worship of the Church of Christ, and now administered by the Armstrong Independent Church. Bro. Killen is the minister. (Photo by Bill Florence)
	Lower Holly School and Church, built about 1877. (Photo by Bill Florence)
	Cedar Grove Church, constructed in 1899, known as Holly Hill School, and rebuilt in 1924. (Photo by Bill Florence)
	Dr. Talley came across this old photo of the Vanceburg Grade School. There was no information on the back to give a clue as to the event. Snow is on the ground so we can determine the time of year. Does anyone have any ideas? Email us at heraldadvertising@yahoo.com
	Front cover of Riverside Seminary program from 1888.
	Inside pages of Riverside Seminary program from 1888.
	Vernon Tolle of Mansfield, Ohio, shared several early Vanceburg photos with us, including this one of the Vanceburg Elementary School first grade class in 1937. Identified so far are, front row, left to right, Vernon Tolle, ?, Leroy Turner (?), ?, Beuford Cunningham, Gilbert Davis, David Butler, Frank Hobbs and ?; second row, Billy Cassidy, Audrey Joyce Stafford, Ruth White, Ruth Childrey, Harvey Parker, Wilma Burton, Lueda Applegate, Ester West, Gladys Gulley and Harry Parker; third row, Jean Hickle, Peggy Scott, Maxine King, David Skaggs, Eugene Chatman, Gary Ballard, Ray Petty, Donald Burriss and ?; fourth row, Harold Roe, Mary Jane Denham, Richard Caseman, ?, Frome Liles and ?; and fifth row, ?, Elizabeth Cassidy, Maxine Ginn, Marcella Ginn, Lillian Burriss, Doris Burriss and teacher Elizabeth Armstrong.
	This picture, taken about 1896 or 1897, shows the students in a "normal school", conducted by W.R. (Roch) Henderson and Prof. T.M. Grimes. This old building, still standing, was built in 1881 and did not include the front addition of 1913 nor the later side additions of the 1940s. The photo is from the W.C. Dugan collection.
	It is believed this picture was taken at the Sullivan Hall at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond in early 1900. Miss Anna Bertram is the tall lady in the back row. Mrs. Elsie Himes Hinton is the third person to the left of the third row. (Photo courtesy of Mrs. Alice Gardner)