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/nNABAIB/5294.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: No, I don't know anything about a school. But I wouldn't be a bit surprised. Do any of the censuses for him give teacher as occupation? Some of the information I got on Abraham III came from notes of his grandson Lyman T. Phillips (who later became a Dentist in Nashville)....that have been circulated among the researchers and came I think from the Parham Collection in McClung Library in TN. (I don't have any notes with me at the moment) In that it also tells that his home was used on the Underground Railroad...and these folks were religious so a school and adopting orphan kids wouldn't be too far off. Abraham also took two sons to CA in the 1850's to look for gold. One was killed, but Abraham and another son made it back home. I think the land Abraham had wasn't in Nashville per se but out in Beaucoup...which is just the next little town over...eastward...and first settled before Nashville. But I would have to check on that. I know that John Phillips and the Whitte! nbergs and John's sister Rachael who married a Logan all had land in Beaucoup. I am not sure where the Farmer guy (Polly's husband) had his. I can look this up as I plotted out the whole Beaucoup area from the land grants. If you find out more on the school and the orphan train kids, I would be interested. Ava