Jo, Thank you so much for sending this. I cant believe you folks. You are setting on all this info! I'll add it to the files of things I need to post for now but will add it to the site soon. I promise. Jackie jo harris wrote: >This is a story about Gatewood, hope you enjoy. JO > GATEWOOD AS I REMEMBER IT, > BACK FROM 88 YEARS AGO > BY: BEA WEBB > > I can't remember my first day of school, which was at Gatewood. There is a dwelling house on the hillside (I think it's still there where our two room school house stood) It was a good size building with a roll up petition, you could roll it up and make one big room out of the two which was often done for the old fashion pie suppers, and plays we used to have. Most of the time when I attended school there we had two teachers, one for each room. Our play ground was on the East side of the building, where the bigger kids played. The smaller ones played on the West side under the trees. We built play houses all over that big hill. We tried to hide them from the boys. They tore them up sometimes out of meanness. I graduated from 8th grade, and at the time 9th grade was taught there. But I didn't attend high school there I went my four years to Brandsville High School and stayed with my sister and her family. Imon Bartley was my nephew and we graduated together. Later ! h! > e taught school at Gatewood, which with Ivan Fagan or Rufe Dalton, I don't remember which. > Someone set out and orchard in later years on the hillside north of the school house. We had to carry water for years up that old hill from two wells out in the middle of Gatewood. One day Martha Tyson and I were going after a bucket of water and we saw the Hudson house on fire. It set where where the old Cronin house was built. I don't know who lives there now. Martha and I ran over to help carry stuff out of the Hudson's house. Gatewood was sure stirring then. Mabel Dodd(O'Neal, Harder) was also helping. She and I were carrying one of those big old fashioned trunks over towards the Tyson's home and we had to cross a big ditch and after we crossed we were going down the path to the Tyson's house. I thought we had gone far enough. I turned real quick and Mabel hadn't turned and that old trunk knocked her for a loop, I didn't have time to help her up and see if she was hurt, there was more to get out of the house. Lewis O'Neal and family lived where Chloe Rawlings liv! e! > d at that time. > > The Tyson's lived in a big white house on the corner West of where Bill Rawlings store is now. They had a big barn across the road and on down towards where Nicks place is now. > The old traveling circus came through the country ever so often and they would camp down in Mr. Tyson's field across the road and creek from the church building. One time they were there. And Mr. Tyson got up before daylight to go to the barn, and there was a big old elephant in his barnyard. He didn't feed the stock then. Later the circus people moved the elephant. The night the circus was on they asked some kid wanted to ride the elephant. I told my parents I would I wasn't afraid, but Ed Martin was faster then I and he yelled I will. So Ed rode the elephant and I just looked on. > Mr. and Mrs. Holland lived on the West side of the creek, close to the school house. His garden joined the front yard and he always had a pretty garden. The croquet ground was across the creek from Mr. Holland's house. Especially on Sunday p.m., it was a busy place. > The old store building Lewis O'Neal owned it the first I remember. He bought eggs at 12 cents per dozen. They had a little building at the back of the store, where they kept chickens, and other fowls they'd buy at the store until they got a load, and then they would take them to Doniphan and sell at the poultry house. They would sell everything snd then buy anything from peanuts to soup. Later Mart and Byrde Cronin bought the place. I missed school, and my second year I stayed with Byrde. I was staying there when Dwaine was born. I did Dwaine's laundry, did housework, helped with the cooking, and helped in the store some. All for $2.50 a week. I took the money and bought my schoolbook and then went back to school. > There was a big scale under a building in a pen. I guess about where the firehouse is now. People would drive the stock or a wagon load of anything and weigh it. On the north side of the store building was a big old fashion blacksmith shop. Years ago Barnes ran the shop, after he left Mr. Lane came in and he tended to it. After they left Mr. Frances Shipman took charge of it. > Back then people didn't have a funeral homes to use. The blacksmith made the caskets most of the time. Mr. Shipman made my Dad's (Jim Garner) casket. Byrde Cronin went out of the store and helped Mr. Shipment cover it, especially the lid. She said it needed stuffing on the lid. 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