Lone Elm School – not sure when it started, but
know that W.A. Satterwhite, Sr. began teaching there in 1896 and taught there
until 1905-1906. He received his
certificate from there dated 1898.
Jellico didn’t have a school. Two
stores and gin just across the road from Lone Elm School house.
Sam’s School House – Calvin Sams,
grandfather of Mrs. Bert Owens, gave an acre of land in one corner of his farm
for this school sometime in the fifties or sixties, for his and the neighboring
children. It was north east of Mt. Gilead. Mrs. Owens does not know when it was torn
down.
Big Bear Creek – This must be Mt. Gilead. Records show Noble Hamilton filed his
teaching certificate from there in 1896 and F. P. Kennedy filed his in 1898;
one teacher.
Keller 14 – Teacher certificate
registered from there in October 26, 1895 for T.E. Scruggs. (feel it is the Keller on Samsill lot)
Shady Grove – Located between
Keller and Smithfield,
at present time there is a church there, no information as to teachers or when
the school closed.
Lone Star – Located on Henrietta Creek, on the road from Keller to
Haslet, one of the oldest schools in the county, thought to be about 1875. Consolidated in 1905; Miss Hattie Prewett
taught the last year, she came into the Keller school the next year.
Highball School
- Located on site of McGillery Dairy.
Miss Hattie Prewett taught there a number of years. She was teaching there in 1896 when W.Y.
Flemister went to school there, after that year the school closed and the
pupils came to Keller.
Salem – Located on George Beggs Farm. One of the oldest and did not consolidate
with Keller until 1910-1911. Have names
of a number of the teachers.
Mr. Blunt Crawford tells us that in
1905 or 1906, he and his father, William Crawford Jr., built a one room school
on what was then the Tuck Place,
property now owned by Mr. Ray White. It
was for negro children. A family of
colored people with several children lived on the Tuck Place, another family lived on the
Tom White place about ten or twelve children attended the school.
Mrs. Bates taught at Mt. Gilead
in 1905-1907.
Boone’s Point – Located on the
western part of Mrs. A.T. Armstrong’s place.
It was built there in the 1880’s.
Do not know when it was torn down.
Keller, Texas
Common School District No. 14
1899-1900 – Mr. Hunter was the
Principal of Keller School.
1904-1905 School year, Teachers –
three
W.J. Mays – Superintendent, Nora Howe – Ocie Elms
1905-1906 - No records – M.G.
Bryant – Superintendent
1906-1907 and 1907-1908 - Jack
Medlin
1908-1909 – A.S. Kennamer,
Superintendent, Laura Price and Jennie Wright
1909-1910 – B. Carroll,
Superintendent, Laura Price and Jennie Wright
Jennie Wright resigned just before
Christmas 1909, when Dora Bates took her classes. Mrs. Bates continued to teach each school
year until 1930, then left the Keller School to teach at Florence.
She returned to Keller
School during the time
that R.L. Bray was superintendent and continued to teach there.
1910-1911 – B. Carroll,
Superintendent, Dora Bates, Pearl Scott,
Teachers.
1910-1911 – Trustees, J.H. West,
C.T. Whitely, G.B. Maddox.
This is the last year that records
of the Keller Common School were recorded in the School Records of the County
Superintendent’s Office at the County Courthouse, it is believed that in the
year 1911-1912, the Keller School became an Independent School District, also
that year the Salem School located on the George Beggs Farm, consolidated with
the Keller School, as that is the last year too any records were found on the
Salem School.
