This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Yl.2ADE/241.1 Message Board Post: I wwould assume she went to a rural school. I myself attended a typical one room (or two or three) room rural school in the fourties. Most rural children attended a rural school and would not have gone so far as Davenport to have attended grade school. They may have gone to Davenport to attended high school or college though since most rural areas, even into the laste fifties, went sent to Davenport Central High school. Rural schools were usually within a few miles of where a child lived. Most children would have been able towalk to school even though it may have been two or three miles.