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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