Does anyone remember the Brickley school?

There is a entry in the Red River Recollections (book) about Brickley School. It covers the school, students listed, and the education career of Mr Brickley. I don't remember hearing of the school until a few years ago when I was fishing for old stories from my dad an my aunt about the old days. Brickley was basically south of Hopewell school(maybe southeast) about 2 to 4 miles. I have never been to the exact spot, but according to my folks, it must be about on the Pecan Bayou. He was principal at Clarksville before starting Brickley, mainly for his kids education. As his children he saw the need for higher education for his kids so he sold his farm and moved to Detroit, Tx and became principal there. After Detroit, he went to Burkburnett, Tx. There he started the Gray System. (what is that?). My mothers family lived never near the Brickley, but grandpa sent his kids to Dimple school after Hopewell closed down. I will check but I think it was Mr Brickley that he and my Grandpa Watson carried guns in there wagons when the crossed or was near the others property. Grandpa say Brickley would cut Grandpas fences so Brickley's cows could graze in his corn fields. My grandpa was preacher, but understand he was ready to fight "at the drop of a hat". This had to be between 1910 and 1920s. The book says the Brickley is within sight of the Pecan Bayou. There is no public road in this area today but my dad use to talk about crossing the Bayou there to go to Concord. I think the main road must have continued southeast to the area where North Lake is located on the way to Clarksville. Ami, sorry if it over killed on this reply, but I find it hard to stop sometimes when I get to rolling with memories of the past. Jim Giddens Paris, Tx p.s. If anyone is looking for any particular name of the students I will look for them. There are several names that are know by me including Forest Gamble and siblings. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ami" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:23 PM Subject: [TXREDRIV] Brickley School > Does anyone remember the Brickley school? > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > Visit Red River County GenWeb site http://www.rootsweb.com/~txredriv > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

I remember back years ago, going in the vacinity of the "old Brickley" school, I was a youngun" and went with some of my relatives, your right Jim, there was no road, we went thru the woods, for quiet a while.. My former grandmother in law was a teacher there at one time, she taught my aunt Sallie I know, she has very sweet memories of Grace Roberts, she was very good to the kids, who were often VERY poor and Grace told me that SHE ws the one who actually started the first school breakfast and lunch program : ).. She said the kids , most of them came to school, hungry and she would teach and be cooking beans and cornbread and biscuits and what ever SHE could afford and teach at the same time..I don't think they make many teachers like that anymore...My aunt Sally is 83 and so she was a student a long time ago... Jim Giddens <[email protected]> wrote:There is a entry in the Red River Recollections (book) about Brickley School. It covers the school, students listed, and the education career of Mr Brickley. I don't remember hearing of the school until a few years ago when I was fishing for old stories from my dad an my aunt about the old days. Brickley was basically south of Hopewell school(maybe southeast) about 2 to 4 miles. I have never been to the exact spot, but according to my folks, it must be about on the Pecan Bayou. He was principal at Clarksville before starting Brickley, mainly for his kids education. As his children he saw the need for higher education for his kids so he sold his farm and moved to Detroit, Tx and became principal there. After Detroit, he went to Burkburnett, Tx. There he started the Gray System. (what is that?). My mothers family lived never near the Brickley, but grandpa sent his kids to Dimple school after Hopewell closed down. I will check but I think it was Mr Brickley that he and my Grandpa Watson carried guns in there wagons when the crossed or was near the others property. Grandpa say Brickley would cut Grandpas fences so Brickley's cows could graze in his corn fields. My grandpa was preacher, but understand he was ready to fight "at the drop of a hat". This had to be between 1910 and 1920s. The book says the Brickley is within sight of the Pecan Bayou. There is no public road in this area today but my dad use to talk about crossing the Bayou there to go to Concord. I think the main road must have continued southeast to the area where North Lake is located on the way to Clarksville. Ami, sorry if it over killed on this reply, but I find it hard to stop sometimes when I get to rolling with memories of the past. Jim Giddens Paris, Tx p.s. If anyone is looking for any particular name of the students I will look for them. There are several names that are know by me including Forest Gamble and siblings. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ami" To: Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:23 PM Subject: [TXREDRIV] Brickley School > Does anyone remember the Brickley school? > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > Visit Red River County GenWeb site http://www.rootsweb.com/~txredriv > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com