Vaughn
School
by
Eugenia Pauley Pittard and Elizabeth Savage Wiginton
from
A
History of Coleman County and Its People, 1985
edited
by Judia and Ralph Terry, and Vena Bob Gates - used by permission
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The neighbors got together and built a log cabin schoolhouse about 1½
miles north of the John C. Pauley homeplace; on the second bank of Hords
Creek, almost directly north of the old “Vaughn Rock House” and straight
south of the Savage place, around 1882. The building had plank windows,
a fireplace and log seats. John C. Pauley built the fireplace.
This was a subscription school, that is, each family paid so much per student
per month. There were about 30 pupils. A Mrs. Whittenburg was
the first teacher. Her husband was a sheepherder for O. N. Vaughn.
Three or four years later, the people of the community built a 16’ x 20’
plank building with plank seats. A Mr. Reader was teacher that year.
Parents of some of the children attending the school were: Pauley, Vaughn,
Pinkston, Savage, Aston, McCall, Arnold, Bishop, Spaulding, Smith, Taylor,
Elkin. It is not known when this school disbanded.
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