There was a beautiful grove of Live Oak trees, so the name of “Shady Grove” was given to the one room school house.  The school was on Felix May’s place.  It was located about three and a half miles south and a little east of Glen Cove.  The beautiful trees made a wonderful place for students to tie their horses and mules that they rode to school, also a good place to play at recess and noon.  Agnes Hartsfield, an early teacher, named the school when it started about 1890.  Teachers that followed were her sister, Lee Hartsfield, Prof. Rickard, Thurman, Hutto, Kelley, Wright, Charlie Brown, Will Paul, Putman, Mary Warnock, Mrs. Ella Lowe, Eula Gibson, Louvenia Estes, Alice Cuney, Mrs. Genis Cameron, Bessie Nuckalls and Bowers May.  In 1903, Miss Lee Hartsfield had 68 pupils, five sets of twins.  They decided another room and teacher was needed, so the second room was added.  Albert May taught a class of penmanship.  When Rickard taught there in 1904, it was known as District 5, School 3; but after 1911, it was District #39.  Trustees from 1912 through 1915 were: F. A. May, W. S. Close, F. W. Casey, and D. L. May.

Some of the families that attended Shady Grove from 1890 to 1919 were Albright, Allen, Brown, Bradley, Borders, Boyers, Burke, Chapman, Conner, Coiner, Coyle, Close, Cox, Cates, Casey, Campbell, Croft, Coursey, Davis, Duncan, Dunaway, Douglas, Dansby,
Downing, Dupree, Estes, Fowlers, Fox, Futrell, Gaines, Guthrie, Gray, Hanks, Holts, Holley, Henderson, Haney, Huey, Hutchison, James, Jones, Jackson, Kings, Kenney, Knowles, Kinard, Lowe, Love, Loflins, Lewis, Lawrence, Lankford, Mays, Mulanax, Marcus, Miller, Morrisson, Meek, McQueen, Needhams, Newkirks, Medcalf, Mitchell, McMahon, Martin, Pyron, Pauley, Parker, Phariss, Perkins, Paynes, Ray, Rich, Roberts, Smith (3 different families), Simmons, Sims, Somerford, Summers, Sparks, Titsworth, Teeter, Templeton, Thompson, Vincent (several families), Wilson, Williams, Wolfrum, Wrays, Witchers, West, White, Warnock, Webb.

Shady Grove consolidated with Central, making a new school called New Central.  The spring of 1919 was the last of dear old Shady Grove.  Now, the trees are all gone, as well as many who attended there, but those that remain have a lot of happy memories.