From 1905 until 1940 there was a school at Starkweather which was one mile west of what is now the Mozelle school.  Mr. H. R. Starkweather was Agent and Attorney-in-Fact for Mr. William Gould Busk, who was owner of the Busk Ranch.  Mr. Starkweather saw the need of a school in the community and a one room building was erected by men of the community and school began in 1905, school District #34.  On December 9, 1905, S. H. Brooks and wife deeded two acres out of the Southwest corner of H. R. Starkweather Survey to M. M. Williams, County Judge, for school purposes.  J. N. Osborne, J. H. Allen and B. F. Driggers were the first trustees.  Miss Jimmie Hart was the first teacher, and taught from 1905 to 1907, Miss Zepher McKee from 1907 to 1908.  The 1908 - 1909 term, the building was curtained off, and Miss Hattie London was one of the teachers.  By the term of 1909 - 1910 another room was added; Miss Pebble Bean taught the higher grades and Miss Mamie Banister the lower grades.  Miss Sallie Warnock and Mrs. Warnock Simmons taught 1910 through 1912.

Among the pupils in the first grade of 1905 - 1906 were Fleda Osborne; Anna Louise Hayes, Emery Wiley and Arthur Allen.  The first few years of school, the term ran from December through April.  Among the early settlers and land owners whose children attended the Starkweather school were: J. H. Allen; J. W. Mask; J. N. Osborne; Charlie Taylor; Tom Taylor; Henry Taylor; John Taylor; T. E. Harris; D. M. McIntyre; Thomas Ayers; B. F. Driggers; Mack Richey; E. E. Pittard; Walter Wardlow; H. H. Hays; J. C. Bargsley; R. A. Stewart; E. I. Stewart; H. A. Byrom; and T. J. Wiley.

The frame building was torn down and a two room brick building erected for the school term of 1922 - 1923.  W. J. Leslie was principal and Miss Lottie McClellan taught the primary grades.  Trustees at this time were R. O. Throgmorton, A. P. Howard and C. E. Ward.  Grades one through eight were taught at Starkweather and when students had finished here they went either to Gouldbusk or Voss for the ninth and tenth grades.  The Mozelle Rural High School was begun in 1935.  The Starkweather grammar school became a part of the Mozelle School District and continued until 1940 when it was transferred to the Gouldbusk Grammar School.  The last teachers to teach at Starkweather were Misses Jewel and Sue Smith.  Eventually the building was torn down and the material used in the Mozelle school buildings.  The Starkweather community lost its identity when the school closed and the building was removed.  Many other teachers whom we have not been able to name taught over this period of 35 years.
 

Starkweather School - 1938

Starkweather School - Group of Entire School - 1938 Back row: third from right - Katherine Smith, second from right - Sealy Smith, right - Maydale Taylor

Starkweather School - 8th Grade Class Group - 1938 Left to right:  Loyd Smith, Maydale Taylor, Sealy Smith