Thanks for this wonderful tidbit on school life....I'll be compiling these and adding them to a permanent place on our page! >Reply-To: <@oconee.com> >From: "BETTIE J. HAMILTON" <wham@oconee.com> >To: "VIRGINIA CRILLEY" <crilley@eramp.net> >Subject: Howard School >Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:51:35 -0500 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > >HI VIRGINIA, >My Dad, W.T. Hamilton started to Howard school abt. 1910. His first teacher >was a Miss Sealy. After she married and left, Miss Mattie Julia Van >Landingham became his teacher, until he moved away in 1917. Miss Mattie >Julia married Hugh Perkins. >My Dad had a classmate named Brown Parker, son of Lige Parker. One day Dad >bet Brown he couldn't get his head in the shelf under the desk. Brown did >get his head in, but they had to get help to get his head out.My Dad will >be 93 on May 16, and enjoys going back to Howard , we sit out by the >cemetery and listen to the stories he tells, about the people buried there. >William F. Hamilton wham@oconee.com > > Virginia Crilley 4500 Kenny Lane Waco TX 76710 (254)772-5390 Subscribe to RUFFIN mailing list: Ruffin-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Subscribe to CRILLEY mailing list: Crilley-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Homepages: http://www.eramp.net/~crilley Ruffin homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6276 Taylor Co USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~gataylor/gataylor.htm