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Jones, Humphries, Smith, & McNair Schools
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Below:
Hapeville College Street School, circa 1919
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1. Clinton Wells, 2. Otis Brewer, 3. Alton Smith, 4,
Harvey Lowe, 5. Unknown, 6. ____ Fowler, 7. ____
Nesbit, 8. Durand Thrailkill, 9. Clifford, 10.
Albert Mason, 11. Marine King, 12. Unknown, 13.
Dorothy Reddick, 14. Florence Fonville, 15. Ruth
Aikin, 16. Mildred Fowler, 17. Ethel Lee, 18.
Frances Fonville, 19. Emma Neal Neri, 20. Unknown,
21. Unknown, 22. Nell Henry, 23. Isabel Dodson, 24.
Unknown, 25. Mary Lou, 26. Elizabeth Pace, 26.
Josephine Grace Humphries, 27. Allie Smith, 28.
Elizabeth Pace, 29. Mildred Alexander, 30 Unknown,
31. Ellen Smith, 32. Kathryn Lee, 33. _____ Davis,
34. Ruth Lewis, 35. Alice Bryant, 36. Ferndale
Hogan, 37. Unknown, Teacher, Mrs. Joe Wells.
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Below:
Hapeville School, 5th Grade, 1921 |
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The little guy between
the 4th and 5th rows who is wearing a suit, is John
D. Humphries, Jr.
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Below:
Howard Academy, circa 1890. Enhanced from
a seriously damaged, post-card sized original.
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1st Row: 1. Jesse McNair; 2.
John Chapman; 3. Horace Ballard; 4. Whit Burke;
5. Joseph McNair; 6. Unknown; 7. Unknown.
2nd Row: 1. Martha McKown; 2. Creserious McKown;
3. Elma Wootan; 4. Lula Terrell; 5. Cora Wells;
6. Emma Jones; 7. Lena Jones.
3rd Row: 1. Morton Butler; 2. Tom Dodson; 3.
Chester Jones; 4. Hamp Harrison; 5. Kimsey
Ballard; 6. Fannie Dodson; 7. Lilla McKown;
8.Edna Thames; 9. Lillie Jones; 10. May
Watts.
4th Row: 1. Berry Wooton; 2. Will Thames; 3.
Dora Dodson; 4. Vada Jones; 5. Kate Dodson; 6.
Leona Burke.
5th Row: 1. Unknown; 2. Albert Terrell; 3.
Lon Moore; 4. Will Burks; 5. Marlin
Terrell; 6.. ?? Butler; 8. Mr. W. R. Jones,
teacher.
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Below:
Howard Academy, circa 1892, Prof. Davis,
teacher. |
1st row: 1. Charley
Wells; 2. Unknown; 3. Hamp Harrison; 4. Lee
Ballard; 5. Unknown; 6. Unknown; 7. Unknown.
2nd row: 1. Horace Ballard; 2. Sidney
Wootan; 3. Ed Jones; 4. Laura Jones; 5. Nonie
Jones; 6. Annie Ballard; 7. Unknown; 8. Joe
Wells; 9. Irene Wallace; 10. Unknown; 11.
Unknown; 12. Unknown; 13. Unknown; 14. Frank
Wells; 15. Maggie Dodson.
3rd row: 1. Tom Dodson; 2. Arthur
Wallace; 3. Kate Dodson; 4. Unknown; 5. Minnie
Dodson; 6. Willie wallace; 7. Lena Jones; 8
Prof. Davis; 9. Eland Dodson; 10. Cora Wells;
11. Mag Watts; 12. Zora Wootan; 13. Emma Dodson;
14. Emma Jones.
4th Row: 1. Unknown; 2. Ham Harrison;
3. ___Wells; 4. Unknown; 5. Unknown; 6. Berry
Wootan; 7. Morgan Dodson; 8. ___Wells.
See some history of The Oak
School, below.
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Below: The Oak
School, Mrs. Lizzie Todd's Class, circa 1896 |
1st
row: Irby Terrell, Sallie Lee, Ruth
Terrell, Carl Terrell
2nd row: Henry
Todd, Ruby Lee, Mrs. W. J. Lee and Tom, Miss
Lizzie Todd, Mable Kidd, Powell Lee, Olin Todd,
Wilson Bell.
3rd. row: Unknown
girl, Nannie Todd, 2 Unknown girls, Luke
Terrell, Bertha Todd, Edna Huie (Amos Daniel
Humphries' step daughter), Mattie Lee (who
married Chester Jones).
4th row: Unknown
boy, Lennie Wayne, Dannie Wesley, 2 Unknown
girls, Lily Mitchell, Unknown girl, Exa Huie
(another ADH stepdaughter), Annie Terrell.
5th row: Beulah
Jones, Unknown girl, Lorrell Terrell, Lewis
Kidd, Raymond Terrell, Griffin Dunn, Quigg
Terrell, John Wayne, Rove Green, George Todd,
Jim Lee, Henry Wesley, Will Kidd
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Below: Howard
Academy, Miss Addie McNair, teacher, 1897 (another
old copy of an older original) |
Howard
Academy, Miss Addie McNair, teacher, 1897
(another old copy of an older original)
1st row:
1. Unknown; 2. Bob Harrison; 3. Whit Burke; 4.
Unknown; 5. Powell Lee; 6. Unknown; 7. Sidney
Wootan; 8. Unknown; 9. Knox Huie; 10. Unknown;
11. ?? Wallace; 12. Jerry Wells.
2nd row:
1. Unknown; 2. Unknown; 3. Mary Jones; 4.
Susie Wells; 5. ___ Jones; 6. Lois Ballard; 7.
Jesse Hudson; 8. ___Wyatt; 9. Unknown; 10.
Lucy Huie; 11. Irene Wallace.
3rd row:
1. Unknown; 2. Joe Wells; 3. Myrtis Smith; 4.
Annie Ballard; Nellie Huie; 6. Unknown; 7.
Unknown; 8 Nellie Wootan; 9. Minnie Smith; 10.
Tommy Jones; 11. Laura Jones; 12. Nonie Jones.
4th row:
1. Lee Ballard; 2. Jesse Harrison; 3. Unknown;
4. Ruby Huie; 5. ___ Wyatt; 6. Unknown; 7.
Emma Jones; 8. Fannie Dodson; 9. Will Smith;
10. Ernest Smith.
5th row:
1. Unknown; 2. Ed Jones; 3. Benjamin Lee; 4.
Unknown; 5. Tarver McNair; 6. Willie Wallace;
7. Miss Addie McNair (teacher); 8. Mattie Lee;
9. Usher Kitchens.
Up in the door: 1. Arthur Wallace; 2. Unknown;
3. Kimsey Ballard; 4. Horace Ballard.
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Below: The Oak School, Minnie Coogler,
teacher, circa 1898
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1st
row: 1. Sam Jones, 2. Frank Terrell, 3.
David (Buddy) Pope, 4. Jim B. Beasley, 5. Eugene
Reeves, 6. Unknown, 7. George Moody, 8. B. D.
Stephens, 9. Duard Terrell.
2nd row: 1. Vera
Stephens, 2. Ruben Baker, 3. Clifford Kidd, 4.
Dan Ed Humphries, 5. Tela Holland, 6. Sallie Ree
Humphries, 7. Essie Reeves, 8. Maud Kidd, 9.
Carl Terrell, 10. Glenn McNair, 11. Allen
McNair.
3rd row:
1. Miss Minnie Coogler (teacher); 2. Florence
Stephens; 3. Della Reeves; 4. Ethel McNair; 5.
Blanch Stephens; 6. Mollie Kidd; 7. Buela
Holland.
4th row:
1. Clyde McNair; 2. Mary Jones; 3. Mattie
McNair; 4. Annie Terrell; 5. Eunice Reeves; 6.
William McNair; 7. Raymnd Terrell; 8. Lorrell
Terrell; 9. Irby Terrell; 10. Amos Baker; 11.
Howard Pope.
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Oak School, Miss Edna Huie,
teacher, circa 1905-6 |
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Oak School, Miss
Edna Huie, teacher, circa 1905-6
1st row: 1. Vera Stephens; 2.
Unknown; 3. Dan Ed Humphries; 4. Duard Terrell;
5. Carl Terrell.
2nd row: Eunice Thames; 2. Maud Kidd;
Carnie Kidd; 4. Unknown; 5. Vernie Mitchell; 6.
Unknown; 7. Bettie Pope; 8. Unknown; 9. Nettie
Pope; 10. Unknown; 11. Howard Pope.
3rd row: Raymond Terrell; 2. Lorrell
Terrell; 3. Will Kidd; 4. Earl Wesley; 5.
Florence Stephens; 6. Ruby Terrell; 7. Unknown;
8. Blanche Stephens; Kate Brown; 10: Lila Pope;
11. Lewis Kidd; 12. Irby Terrell; 13. Henry
Wesley.
4th row: 1. Luke Pope; 2. Tom Carter;
3. Lester Brown; 4. Unknown; 5. Unknown; 6. Olin
Mitchel; 7. John Pope.
5th row: 1. Oscar Carter; 2. Lila
Mitchell; 3. Dannie Wesley; 4. Miss Edna Huie
(teacher); 5. Annie Terrell; 6. Mable Kidd; 7.
Exa Huie.
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College
Street School, 7th Grade, 1924, Jere Wells,
Teacher
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1st row: 1.
Girl; 2. boy; 3. Gladys Jones; 4. Frank
Peebles; 5. Asberry Bryant; 6. Merle Perdue;
7. Wayne Smith; 8. Marie Meertier; 9. Lawrence
Campbell; 10. Ethel Lassiter.
2nd row: Claud Hines; 2. Elmer Dailey; 3.
Unknown; 4. Eleanor Pace; 5. Unknown; 6. Ethel
Harrison; 7. Unknown; 8. Helen Holland; 9.
Unknown; 10. William Akin.
3rd. row: 1. Unknown; 2. Unknown; 3. Dan
Wells; 4. Esther Volan; 5. Katheryn Dunn; 6.
Aeive Gilbert; 7. Neill Leach; 8. Unknown.
4th row: Jere Wells, teacher; 2. Unknown; 3.
E. G. Webb; 4. Unknown; 5. Unknown.
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The
Oak School was a one-room, one-teacher school.
The building was constructed on Terrell's Mill Road by
Clayton County in 1895 and first served as court held
by Justice of the Peace, Mr. F. M. Terrell. It
opened as the Oak School in the fall of 1896 with Miss
Lizzie Todd as the teacher of about 25 students.
The children had been going to Howard Academy near
Mountain View (Rough and Ready) but that building
burned, so the courthouse was used for a school until
about 1912. During that time, other teachers
were Miss Minnie Coogler, Miss Lizzie B. Lasseter,
Miss Ida Mae Huie, Mr Robert Todd, Miss Mary Archer,
and Mr. Frank Wells. Parents contributed to the
teacher's salary. Lunch was one hour, and
some children went home for lunch. The school
term was about 6 months and as all children were in
one room, older children helped younger ones.
After receiving a certificate from the Oak School,
children could go to nearby Hapeville High School
(paying tuition, as it was in Fulton County) or to
Jonesboro High School, which was free for county
children, but was 10 miles away.
The Oak school/court house building continued to be
used by the community for various purposes for more
than 50 years.
This information is from History of Clayton County
Georgia 1821 - 1883.
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