Willie I know the school was there when I went to the Primer...Most people don't know what that is...but I guess it was before Kindergarten. That had to have been 1946ish Here are my directions on how to get there... As you go North on 127 -you make a wide right hand turn (don't know the name of the road) go across a small bridge--go past the roadway to Wolf Cemetery-turn left at the next road. Then almost to the end of the road turn left on the last turnoff and almost immediate on the right is the Long home that was a my school in Rotten Fork...I am assuming that it was a new school if your Mom went to the school in the 20's. It is across the road from Vic Cook's place. My Aunt Lexie and cousin Billy Delk still live on that road....I was there about 4 or 5 years ago. Milly WARD Piros My Mind is like Lightning.....One Brilliant flash and pooooooooofffffffff It's gone

Milly, Thanks very much for all your excellent help. Your memory is perfect! I did find out from M.C. Pile a little more about the lumber Camp. It was called the Rottens Fork Lumber Camp. It had a school, commissary and other things. The school was Rotten's Fork School, and it sat on the edge of the road and beside the creek at the lower end of the big long field where Alfred and Lucy Williams lived. They ran the lumber camp. A big spring nearby was called the Alfred Williams Spring. In 1942 (the lumber camp was closed by this time) the school was moved down the creek to the farm where you grew up. It was in use as a church and school for a few years and I couldn't get from M. C. exactly when, but a new school was built to replace the old one, and the old school became the church. The old school was a log structure, which was later covered with boards. He said the new school was used for 3-4 years and the students went down to Wolf River school. Gib Long bought the new school when it was closed. So, if you attended Primer there in 1946ish you would have gone to the new school. That is the best I could make of my notes from M. C. and the way he described it. I had to filter through a few info sidebars. According to M. C., the Incline was up Delk Creek, and Head-O'-Wolf Lumber Camp was up there. So....I started school at Frogge's Chapel in 1945 and passed primer and first grade in the same year, since I was 7-1/2 years old when I started. I had to wait a year so my brother and I could walk together from the head of Reed's Creek - almost four miles, I was told. Milly, why don't you plan to get down here for our History Week and Roundup this April 25-30, so I can meet you. We have too many things in common to settle them all via email, since my mother and lots of kin grew up around you and your folks. Again, it's been fun talking about the Rotten's Fork community. Willie ----- Original Message ----- From: <MPiros1120@aol.com> To: <tnfentre@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [TNFENTRE] Head O Wolf Lumber Camp > Willie > > I know the school was there when I went to the Primer...Most people don't > know what that is...but I guess it was before Kindergarten. That had to > have been 1946ish Here are my directions on how to get there... > > As you go North on 127 -you make a wide right hand turn (don't know the > name of the road) go across a small bridge--go past the roadway to Wolf > Cemetery-turn left at the next road. Then almost to the end of the road > turn > left on the last turnoff and almost immediate on the right is the Long > home > that was a my school in Rotten Fork...I am assuming that it was a new > school > if your Mom went to the school in the 20's. It is across the road from > Vic > Cook's place. My Aunt Lexie and cousin Billy Delk still live on that > road....I was there about 4 or 5 years ago. > > Milly WARD Piros > > My Mind is like Lightning.....One Brilliant flash and pooooooooofffffffff > It's gone > > > > > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNFENTRE > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message