Cleora Helen {KING} ROBERTSON wrote the following about Burnt School Cemetery: Way back before my parents were married [1887], the log school building near cemetery - my parents went there (what they got to go) burned down.  Hence name. Rebuilt a very nice one-room, built of good lumber, painted white outside, homemade seats and desks.  Teacher's desk.  When I was past -- what age I do not remember -- I got up pupils enough nearby.  Our School District, No. 27, had been dissolved as there were too few pupils -- joined to Advance School District (formerly Helvy Springs).  I was teacher -- called subscription school. We were getting along fine.  One married man* who lived nearby was one of pupils.  He was learning to read and spell.  That was very difficult for him. One cold day the wind was blowing strong.  Roof was dry and getting old but didn't leak.  House roof near flue (metal flue) burned.  We rang the bell for help.  One boy** climbed up on top -- knocked boards off.  They caught others on fire.  We got few benches out and away went our school building. Even went there to Sunday School one spring and summer -- and many good Church of Christ revivals.  Still is named Burnt School Cemetery. Since then, community made up money -- built a small one-room building in north side edge of cemetery -- place to keep tools inside.  Wood heater stove.  The bell from the burned building.  We made up money before the building burned during sale of box supper.  Then got the bell.  The house lately has been sealed inside with wallboard and painted.  Hold funerals in this building.  The ground squirrels have gnawed holes in wallboard.  This year -- have been a community -- writing to people away from here and for funds to re-fence cemetery ground and to repair building. Eliza's grandparents, Buck and Peggy KING, Lewis KING's Alabama wife are buried there.  Someone put hewed sand rocks, two layers high, around three graves.  We took Eliza FARMER there one Sunday p.m. last year.  This Alabama wife was Webster KING's mother.  Webster is half-brother to Eliza. *According to Mary Gertrude {PERRY} (my mother), married man was Allen AVEY, whose wife was Maggie SANDERS, dau of Bill SANDERS, whose family lived in Leatherwood Mountains -- not Maggie who marriied Charles Oliver KING. **Boy who climbed onto roof was my father William Henderson KING. Peggy