Murchison Had 75 Students in 1903; Picture Preserved

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These are the Murchison School students and teachers for school term, 1903-04.
The picture was made at the rear of the building where the steps lead up to the
stairway on the second floor. The school principal was Frank Warren and the
assistant teacher, Miss Ida Clay. Reading from left to right, seated on front row:

Barny Gibbs, Britt (Bud) Bingham, Thurman Curry, Clyde Eads, Jack Partlow,
Lee Partlow, Lawrence Smittle, Maudie Harrison, Carl Sanders, Marvin Webb,
Genie Prather, Jewel Bingham, Carrie Loper, Ruth Gibbs, Eunice Webb, Monroe Webb.

Second row, left to right Lonnie Barfield, Lula Barfied, Anna Jenkins, Lottie Gibbs,
Laura Beebe, Pansy Eads, Carl Smittle, Georgia Prather, Joe Prather, Aubrey Eads,
Artie Cox, Sallie Scott, Fannie Ard, Ethel Ingram, Essie Martin, Nora Hodge, and Alma Bingham.

At steps-third row-standing left to right, Miss Ida Clay, Elementary teacher, Ethel Pickering,
May LoperPolk Partlow, Ora Whitman, Lela Moore, Burl Yancy, Fred Luker, Willie Curry,
Fannie Sanders, Rube Williams, Irving Cox, Emory Eads, Wylie Partlow, Vicie Loper, and Laura Webb.

Fourth row, reading from left to right, Grady Scott, Porter Luker, Minnie Ingram, Earl Faulk,
Clem Luker, May Cox. Allie Prather, Minnie Hodges, (?Lillie), Hebrew (Heber) Smittle,
Kelly Smittle and Bithie Gibbs.

On stairway first step, upward, Annie Perry, Adelia (Deal) Pickering, Lucile Cranford,
Agnes Ard, Ceceil Cranford, Callie Luker, Emory Cox. Kinnian Gibbs, Lester Ingram,

Second row on steps, reading upward, Frank Warren , principal of school,
Daisy Pickering, (?), Viola Lewis, and Nellie Prater.

The students and teachers in the photograph were identified by Clyde Eads,
who was nine years of age at the time the picture was made.

Athens Daily Review
April 1968

Athens Review does not have a copier for the old newspapers so,
I used my digital camera, sorry it isn't as good as I had wished for. bf

Records Show Murchison Had School House in 1875

Old Newspaper Articles of Henderson County

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