W. O. K. Anderson settled on his new homestead near 1900 and saw that his older children would soon need a school closer by.  On August 14, 1902, he received $1.00 from trustees of school district #1 for 1.2 acres of land from the most northern corner of the Anderson tract, a part of the T. B. Frazelle Survey 711.  This school site lay on the west line of the Coleman and Robertson Peak road and south of the W. P. Wilson farm; road later known as the Abilene Highway.  A one room building was constructed approximately 28’ x 40’ with one door in the north and three windows to each side.  Mr. Charlston, the father of Mrs. Anderson, was the builder with helpers.  For eighteen years many children attended school here, some finishing to go no more while others went on to Coleman to further their education; many riding their horses or by buggy or hack.

This Anderson School No. 1, District #38, was a delight to this farming area, a kind of community center for church, elections, plays, dinners, etc.  In 1925 or 1926 the building was purchased by the Cap Smith family and built into their home.  Now this is a part of the Ralph Stubblefield rock home.

Anderson No. 1 had several families with a large number of pupils attending, but one family holds the record, the W. O. K. Anderson family. Others were Hall, Craig, Buck, Coleman, Boyd, Hubbard (several families), Jones, Lindsay, McDonald, McClure, McDaniel, Moss, Miller, Perkins, Rutherford (several families) and Hurst. Some of the trustees were I. T. Sanders, G. B. Beaumont, J. R. Chadwell, John Hubbard, John Craig, Wesley Rutherford, Mark Buck and S. E. McDonald. Some of the teachers were Miss Alma McClure (said to have taught eleven of the eighteen terms of this school including the first and the last.  She also taught at Anderson II.); Robert Lee Conway; Miss Gladys Townsen, Miss Virginia Armstrong, Miss Johnnie Lawrence from Mt. View area, married Sam Craig, a local boy, and lost her life in the flu epidemic of 1918; Lee Gains, and Atha Buck.  In 1919 Mr. Anderson bought a house in town and for five years an older daughter lived there sending the younger ones to Coleman schools.

In 1919 or earlier, the word consolidate came into our school world.  Three schools were to consolidate, Anderson No. 1, Mt. View and Cotton.  Plans were made for a larger school, to be more centrally located for pupils from each of these districts.  In 1919 or 1920, Press Morris deeded three acres of land to District #38 for the purpose of Anderson School No. II.  Sam Snedegar and son, Horace, got out the Model T truck and started hauling gravel from Echo for the foundation of this new building.  Some other families in the community hauled sand and gravel for the mortar by wagons from a gravel pit in Hords Creek north of Coleman.  J. W. Dial was one who helped with the hauling.  His son, J. Edmond, also helped him load and unload the wagon and rode with him to and from the pit.  One neighbor, Frank Weaver, mixed all the mortar for the building and was the hod bearer for the brick masons.  It was all mixed by hand.  This new two room brick school with wooden floors was built in 1920.  My last year at Anderson was in 1924 with Hugh Devaney as teacher.  The six Dial children attended this school and four of us taught there.

New Anderson brought many strangers together and of course some problems.  It was a little like the north and south after the Civil War, but untiring workers and unselfish people like Mr. Weaver soon brought the north and the south and the east and the west together in one big happy community.

In 1925, the school began to suffer growing pains and another large room was built on the north for the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades.  Lee Farmer taught the first classes in this room in 1926.  Anderson functioned as a three teacher school through 1931 term then reverted back to a two teacher school.  After 24 years and many pupils, World War II brought a change.  Families were shifting from this farming area to high paying jobs in the cities and the teachers were going to other jobs, so again necessity demanded change and in May of 1943 the doors of Anderson No. II closed on its last term.  The pupils rode a bus to West Ward and high school in Coleman after that.

In 1950, Glenn Corky Chapman bought the building and the three acres of land for $750.00.  The four Chapman sons attended Anderson school for a period of 20 years.  Mr. Chapman served many years as a trustee.  The family lived in this school house while their home was being built.

Two or three Anderson teachers lived in the unused room in the last years of the school.  One pupil remembered a twelve pound baby being born to the Henry Lee Driskells while they were living in the extra room and he served as principal in the late thirties.