Schools in Jasper County, Illinois
Schools in Jasper County, Illinois
Advance School
- Location:
Known teachers: Orell Brooks (1928-29)
Bird School
- Located: east of Falmouth
Known teachers: C.D. Pickens (1905)
Blair School
- Located about 10 miles south of Newton.
Known teachers: Albert Kittle (c. 1893-1895), John Hamilton of Bogota (1894)
Bogota School
- Location:
Known teachers: Nola Keever (1910), Minnie Graves (1910)
Buckeye School
- Location: two miles south of Kedron
Known teachers: Jasper Worthey (1898), Ira Burnside (1910), Floyd D.K. Price (1914-15)
Buck Grove School
- Location:
Known teachers:
Brockville School
- Location:
Known teachers: W.E. Isley
Brown School
- Location:
Known teachers: Nellie Redman (1910)
Calvin School
- Location: 2 miles south of Bogota
Known teachers: Luther Wooden (1899) O.P. Chesnut (1916)
Center School
- Location:
Known teachers: Shirley R. Hall (1930)
Cherry Grove School
- Location: Half a mile south of Lis
Known teachers: A.B. Johnson, (1891)
Coad School
- Location: Northwest of Rose Hill
Known teachers: Paul Harker (1920)
College Hill School
- Location: two miles west of Bogota
Known Teachers: Nelle Clark (1898)
Cummins School
- Location: Crooked Creek Township
Known Teachers: Frank P. Hunt (1894)
Dallmier School
- Location: 7 miles southeast of Newton
Known Teachers: Mary Mattingly (1923)
Fairview School
- Location: one mile north of Hunt.
Known Teachers:
Foltz School
- Location: first located a half mile west of Ray Foltz Garage - later
Reba's Store, then it got moved to just north of Reba's Store
Known Teachers: Dorothy Clark (1947)
Frazier School
- Location:
Known Teachers: Vivian James (1904) -- Belle Clark (1911)
Greenwood School
Location:
Known Teachers: Wilmer J. Maginn (1909)
Hickory School
- Location: The school was located 4½ miles north of Newton.
Known Teachers: Lena Raef (1910)
Hidalgo School
- Location:
Known Teachers: Bill Houser (1893), Lillie Roberts (1923)
Holm School
- Location: 2 miles south and 1 mile west of Wheeler
Known Teachers: Tom Phillips (1891)
Hunt School
- Location: Hunt City
Known Teachers: Emery Gifford (1916)
Hutson School
- Location: two miles west of Hidalgo
Known Teachers: Mrs. Mollie McComas Reynolds (1894); Samuel Strader (1913)
Johnson School
- Location: South Muddy township
Known Teachers: Samuel Galloway (1903)
Jones School
- Located three miles northeast of Falmouth (northeast of Newton also)
Known Teachers: Minnie Bliss Mitchell (1900), Wiley Lewis (1903), Betty Williams (1910)
Kedron School
Location: 7 miles west of Newton
Known Teachers:
Kepley school
- Located in the southwest corner of Jasper county
Known Teachers: John Breedlove (1910); William Fuson (1912)
Kerns School
Location: Grove Twp, one mile south and two miles east of Gila
Known Teachers: Inez Feezel (1899),
W.I. Ross (1912), Ocie Moomaw (1915)
Kessler School
Location:
Known Teachers: Julia Kaufmann (1907)
Kibler School
Location:
Known Teachers: Jim Raper
Latona School
Location:
Known Teachers: Dan Kirkham (1896)
Little Range School
Location: Northwest of Willow Hill
Known Teachers: Vera Mae Madden (1926)
Long Branch School
Location: 5 miles southwest of Newton
Known Teachers: Lizzie Hamilton Black (1896)
Mound School
Location: Northeast of Willow Hill and west of Mound cemetery
Known Teachers: Naomi (Stretcher) Isley (1905)
Mt. Olive School
Location: northwest of Newton
Known Teachers: Rube Foot (1909)
Mt. Zion School
Location: northeast of Lis
Known Teachers: Charley Kennedy (1904)
Myers School
Location: One mile north of Gila
Known Teachers: Dewey Raper (1918)
Newton Grade School
Location:
Known Teachers: Emma Trainor (1906); Emma Shup Wright (1906) Principal: Charles Bevis (1906) Elma Kibler (1906)
Oak Grove School
Location: 4 miles west of Newton
Known Teachers: John D. Davis (1912)
Oakland School
Location: four miles southwest of Bogota
Known Teachers: R.G. Chesnut (1896)
Onion Prairie School
Location:
Known Teachers: Lela Hamilton (1914)
Palmersburg School
Location:
Known Teachers: L.C. McCain (1909)
Pingtown School
Location: located east of Willow Hill
Known Teachers:
Marvin Harrison (1900-1901), Giles Francis (1900-1901), Maud Sibbett (1900-1901)
A.D. Bartley (1901-1902), Della Anderson (1901-1902)
A.D. Bartley (1902-1903) Maude Richardson (1902-1903)
Nancy Koons (1904/05), Daisy Norton (1904/05)
Fannie (Cahill) Ping (1906), Emily (Gustin) Flynn (1906)
Point Pleasant School
Location:
Known teachers: John Yelton (1911)
Pond Grove School
Location: 3½ miles south of Sainte Marie.
Known teachers: Bert Carpenter (1898)
Prairie School
Location:
Known teachers: Charles Shumard (1893/4)
Premium School
Location: Crooked Creek
Known teachers: Mat Martin (1892)
Reisner School
Location:
Known teachers: (Charles Price 1910-11)
Richards (aka Ganderneck) School
Location:
Known Teachers: Mrs. Nannie Trainor Tate (1898); Earl Heady (1909-10)
Rose Hill School
Location:
Known Teachers: Lloyd Flocken, principal (1930) Jessie Baker, teacher (1930)
Sand Ridge School
- Located in Grandville Twp
Known Teachers: Noah Arthur Cramer (1909)
Sarvis Hill School
- Located 9 miles northwest of Newton
Known Teachers: Lizzie Shumard (1909)
Shiloh School District No. 1
- Located in Grove Twp
Known Teachers:
Springs School
- Located:
Known Teachers: Luther Wooden (1909); Tressa Laws Swisher (1930)
St. Peter School
- Location: Northwest corner of the St. Peter Cemetery Grounds
Known Teachers: Frank Long (1896); Ed Arnold (1898)
Swick School (Fairview)
- Location: North Crooked Creek township
Known Teachers: Sam Strader (1911); Ursel McKinley (1917)
Trexler School
- Location:
Known Teachers: Wayne French (1899/1900); Harry Jones (1912)
Union School (aka Cornbread)
- Located two miles south of Latona
Known Teachers: Semore Knepper (1899)
Vanderhoof School
- Location:
Known Teachers: May (Lafayette) Maxwell (1900-01)
Wakefield School
- Location: It was seven miles south of Newton on Buck Grove Road, or one mile east of Shamrock, and not in the
village of Wakefield as one might suppose.
Known Teachers: Lillie Lambird Klier (1910)
Water Oak School
- Location:
Known Teachers:
West Liberty School
- Location: 2 miles east of Hidalgo
Known Teachers: Harve Gross (1901), Walter Laus (1910) Gladys Letsinger (1915), Shirley Hall (1921)
Willow Hill Schools
- Location:
Known Teachers: Flossie Cramer, Zenith Kibler, Clinton James
Willow Hill No. 6 School
- Location: 2 miles north and one mile east of Willow Hill
Known Teachers: Ira Madden
Winterrowd School
- Location:
Known Teachers: T.L. McCorkle (1916)
Yale School
- Location:
Known Teachers: Luella Carr Blankenbaker (1925)
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