On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 07:03 PM, Helen Hudson wrote: > check. PLEASE IDA WATSON other WATSONS PUGH Thank you very much. Lora

The listing for 1854 does not include any of your surname. Listed are the members of the Senior, Junior, Sophomore, Freshmen, Preparatory, Primary (?) and Music class students. There was a total of 85 students (parent or guardian is listed also) with 28 at music. Students boarding with local residents are also mentioned so you might want to check the census if you are looking for a time frame that it would have been taken in and see if there are any young ladies in the Perry area listed as part of a H/H but as a boarder. In reading, there was an Act approved Feb. 18, 1854 to change the name of the Perry Baptist Female Seminary located in Perry, Houston County, Georgia to Houston Female College. There was a Board of Directors named. Since the Baptist is mentioned, it might well be worth you while to check with the Jack Tarver Library Special Collections at Mercer University in Macon to see if there may be other records deposited there for the earliest years. It is also stated that the building stood where the present Board of Education office is located in Perry and that the main building was moved (across the street) and that it was converted to a residence. It was uncertain when it ceased to function as a school. I think that this building was located where the present fellowship hall for the First Baptist Church is now. When I was growing up it was there and I remember that the Misses Ryals (teachers, Miss Willie taught music and her sister taught regular elementary classes) lived in a portion of it so it must have been converted into either apartments or as a boarding type facility by that time, 1960s, 1970s. When the Baptist Church built their current buildings, it disappeared, torn down or moved, I do not remember. Another old building lost to progress.