Mrs. Willie Day deeded approximately four acres of land to the Voss community for a school building and grounds.  In June 1899, School District #25 was created and established.  There were three trustees elected for the original school; two of these being R. M. Loggins and J. W. Cox.  The original Voss school was a two-room wooded structure, built not later than 1902 and classes were first held there in 1903, called Common School District #25.  A cupola built above the east entrance housed a large iron bell cast at a foundry in Hillsboro, Ohio, with the date 1886 inscribed on it.  Isaac Pate of Voss is the proud possessor of this bell at present (1983) and has it mounted on a post in his front yard.  Soon a third room was added due to an increase in enrollment. Elm Creek School consolidated with Voss in 1914, and their school was sold with monies credited to the Voss School District in 1914.

In 1917 a four-room building was built of native stone.  Will McClain of Valera was the stone mason and Milton Moore was the contractor.  Several local people worked on the building, some of whom were L. C. Green and Will Pate.  In 1919, a portion of Water Valley school consolidated with Voss.

Early school days at Voss are well described in the following reminiscence written by Curtis H. Van Dalsem, a former student and teacher: “When I was asked to write a history about the old Voss School, a flood of nostalgia overwhelmed me.  I spent nine of the happiest, carefree years of my life as student, 1917 - 1927, and two years as teacher, 1931 - 1933.  That’s a lot of years under one roof.  There were six teachers during this time, Miss Grace Gaines, Miss Fannie Anderson, Miss Ruth Van Dalsem, Miss Beatrice Reasoner, Byron England and Miss Daisy Adams.  After two years of college I returned to teach.  Trustees were Ben A. Dodgen, L. R. Byrom, W. J. Guthrie and Will Skelton.  My salary was $90.00 per month for 7½ months.  The children in those early days, were a sturdy bunch, who inherited all the qualities of pioneer life and were nurtured by the experience of their parents.  Life as a whole had to be hard, slow and simple.  The necessities of life, food, clothing and shelter were primary.  Anything additional was seldom thought of.  Kids got to school the best way they could; some came in buggies drawn by the old family buggy horse, some came horseback and some walked.  The roads were dirt and mud.  They brought in their lunches that Mama fixed, usually a hard boiled egg or two, some salt and pepper mixed and wrapped in a little piece of paper; a homemade sausage in a biscuit was standard and maybe some kind of sweet or fruit.  All this was wrapped neatly in a piece of newspaper or a brown sack tucked down safely in the bottom of the old book satchel that Mama had made from a piece of old ducking cotton sack.  The only playground facilities were a basketball court outdoors, a baseball diamond with ample room for a home run, a set of seesaws for the little ones and later a volleyball court.  The out houses were at opposite corners of the school yard.”

In 1935, when Voss became a part of the Mozelle system, only an elementary school, grades 1 - 8 was held here.  Extensive remodeling of the interior was done at this time.  One classroom was converted into a combination kitchen - dining room as the result of the federal government’s establishment of the hot lunch program for schools.

In 1947, several students from the disbanded Hill School enrolled at Voss.  Others went to Gouldbusk.  During the latter years at Voss, some of the activities students participated in were basketball, softball, choral club (one year under Mrs. Jewell McMinn at the urging of Supt. O. C. Cook); Miss Essie McGregor’s (1927 - 1945, transferred to Mozelle in 1945) spring walks with her young students; and various other games such as “Drop the Hankerchief, Hide and Seek, Wolf over the River, Flying Dutchman.”  In the late 1940’s there were some intra-mural softball games with other schools in the Mozelle system.  The school term 1952 - 1953, the Voss School was terminated and all the students went to Mozelle.

Some of the teachers not already named were John A. Throgmorton, principal, 1920 - 1924; Miss Annie Lauder (later Mrs. Hiram Martin) early 1920’s and before; Principal and Mrs. Rae (1933-34) Lois (Stewart) Standridge (1933-39); Juanita Line (1925-26); Mrs. England (1925-26); Monetah Kennedy (1926-27); Estelle Alexander; Miss Mary Ellen Owen (1926-27); later taught as Mrs. Isaac Pate (1947-48);
Jewel McMinn (1929-31 and 1939-45); Principal Riherd (1929-31); Miss Sallie Morris (1929-31); Lynn McAden (1931-33); Jess Throgmorton (1947-49); Principal Charles Wright (1950-51); Mrs. M. C. (Dorothy) Vickers (1949-50); Sherwood Downey (1949-50); Mrs. Bloodworth, late 1940’s; Mrs. Jack (1951).

The first school bus Voss had was in 1935 and Nathan Thacker was the driver for the first several years.  Ira Loggins drove a bus when Voss became a part of Mozelle.

The termination of the school did not end the use of the sturdy old building.  Voting for all elections is done there; club, community, family and church gatherings and dinners are frequently held there.  About 15 years ago, the building was remodeled with County Precinct #3 using the extreme north and west parts of the building for headquarters; restrooms were installed and other interior improvements have been made.  To those who attended school here this historic old building holds many fond memories and it is very satisfying to see it preserved and useful even now.