Metamora Schools
Woodford County, Illinois Genealogy Trails

Public School Building 1873-1952

Graduating Class - 1897 Standing: Blanche Conrad Mason, the teacher and May Zoller Hicks Seated: Ferdinand Nauman, Bertha Isch Synder, Rosaline Sommer Slane and William Goldsmith

86 children were enrolled in the Metamora High School. Professor Whetzel taught 23 in the high room; 11 in the grammar room taught by Miss Aarabella Nixon; 31 in the intermediate room taught by Miss Rose Monahan and 21 in the primary room taught by Miss Zelma Yambert

Class of 1912, 1913 and 1915 (no graduates in 1914): 1st row - Willard Ranney, Mable Malone Kastien Greiner, Alvina Knoblauch Retzski, William Engel, Clara Ahrens Kamm, Madeline Isch Sullivan & Josephine Eichhorn Dubois. 2nd row - Clifford Stivers, Delia Murray Janssen, Mary Irving, Esther Heininger Pallin, Ida Stivers DeWilde, & Clarence Griggs. 3rd row - William Heinzmann, Joel Ranney, Ethel Murray, Carl Heinzman, Faye Gove Combs, & Lloyd Hockenbury. 4th row - William Stauter, Principal

Oakenwald School is located in District 36, northwest of Metamora in Partridge Township. Standing (L>R): Marie Broers Obert, Herman Elbert, Frank Broers, Charles (Tip) Broers, Clara Baggs Robertson, Lillian Elbert Waldschmidt, Kate Heininger Kerker, Lillian Ahrens Crawford, Elsie Baggs Ely Rohman (Mary Ray, teacher), and Florence Elbert Seckler Ahrens. Seated (L>R): Ed Heininger, Reynold Butte, Julius Gardner, Helen Butte, Ernest Gardner, Elmer Baggs, Marie Ahrens Griffeths, Susan Ahrens Kammerer and Bena Heininger Dubois

Metamora Basketball Team - 1919 Left>Right: Rudy Waldschmidt, Hugh Malone, Lloyd Capron, Tilton Murray, Morris Knoblauch, Ralph Ranney and Vivian Heinger Friday, January 25, 1918: "The MTHS basketball team played the Washburn high school team at Washburn last Friday night, the local boys losing 9 to 41. The evening passenger train, on which the boys expected to return home, did not reach Washburn until 3 a.m. and was from that hour until 6 o'clock coming from Washburn to Metamora on account of the locomotive being unable to keep steam (because of heavy snow blocking the tracks)". The class of 1919 was the first four year class to graduate from Metamora high school.

Metamora Grade School - 1921 Primary Class row 1: Edith Grob Hartman, Edw. Summer, Alden Ranney, Wesley Attig, Florence Koch, Pearl Attig Hazenfield, Rex Hill row 2: Keith Graves, Carina Bachman, Wilbur Hartman, Jerald Sommer, ? Koch row 3: Erma Hockenbury Stevenson, Merlin Runyon, Elmo Gundy, Lester Koch, Melba Minger Stieglitz and Miss Ahrens, teacher

Metamora Grade School - 1924 row 1: Kennetih Sommer, Glenwood Bohlander, Lorene Glob, Vera Attig, Mardell Stieder, Robert Martin, Dan Wagner, Richard Ranney row 2: Marrietta Moulton, Robb Grob, Alden Ranney, Wesley Attig, Mable Summer, ? Mooberry, Elizabeth Calhoun, Norma Greenages, Mary Hartman, Melvin Greenagle, Keith Graves, Harold Garber, Charlott Vogelsang row 3: Dorothy Stieder, Bernice Hartman, ? Schmitt, Eldon Mason, Emmerson Bolles, Wilbur Hartman, Edw. Summer, Charles Todden, Harriet Calhoun, ? Schmitt row 4: Miss Smith Able, Bernard Graves, Floyd Nuhn, Gerald Sommer, Eloise Ranney, Pearl Attig Hazenfield, Erma Hockenbury Stevenson, Carina Bachman, Edith Grob Hartman, Hilton Parker, Merlin Runyon, ? Schmitt, Isla Wakefield Trapp row 5: Madeline Zimmerman Legel, Lois Snyder Keys, Lyle Hockenbury, Charles Mason, Bill Scherff, Elton Bachman, ? Schmitt, Elmo Gundy, Elsie Wagner, Fern Bohlander

Happy Hour School The Happy Hour School district was located four miles southeast of Metamora. At the end of the school year, a picnic was held with parents joining the children. This picnic was held several years before the schools consolidated.

Metamora High School Basketball Team 1933 row 1: Russell Shea, Vernon "Bud" Meismer, Eddie Schierer, Dan Wagner, Eldon Mason row 2: Coach - Bob Grob, Ernie Briggs, Elmer Ehringer, Harold Garber, Bob Martin, Bill Briggs

row 1: Kenneth Hayden, Bobby Deatherage, Ronnie Musselman, Bobby Full, Janice Sullivan, Ramona Wagner, Burton Schertz, Durward Guth, Harold Richmond, Rodney Bell row 2: Bobby Tippy, Robert Brodt, Mae Kern, Margaret Richmond, Dorothy Ehringer, Jack Malone, Joanne Musselman, Barbara Abel, Corinne Ranney, Richard Schrock, Geme Fehr row 3: Miss Ewing, Mary Wagner, Donna Lou Gamble, Martha Kern, Ross Wilder, Gerald Ehringer, Robert Schertz, Jack Engel, Edith Wagner, Annabelle Hayden, Gordon Wagner row 4: Loring Uftring, Glenn Meyer, Mildred Richmond, Geraldine Jackson, Phyllis Willman, Jean Sullivan, Harlan Sluga, Marshall Belcher, Miss McDermott row 5: Hugh Abel, Gary Gamble, Carrol Meyer, Raymond Sharick, Bobby Garber, Junior Kern row 6: Alverda Schertz Garber, Leontine Koch, Melba Wagner, Carol Belcher, Mrs. Wave Frericks, Mr. Rohman - Janitor

Class Roll Elsie Mae Aldridge, Ferne Lucille Bachman, Minerva Jane Bachman, Mayona Faye Brennen, Mary Catherine Ehringer, Rita Ann Elbert, Miriam Margot Gamble, Richard Garber, Francis Richard Giehl, Doris L. Goetz, Richard Hodel, Vida S. Kennel, Ardetta Kern, Loren Leman, Fred McCullough, Lillian L. Meister, Robert E. Moilter, Mary Patricia Murphy, Dorothy Elaine Opper, Russel Schumacher, Melvin G. Sharick, Agnes E. Stickelmaier

Front row: Bobby Garber and Francis Giehl Back row: John Schmidt, Bob Moiltor and Eugene Schertz

1953 Grade School Graduating Class Seated L>R: Marsha Barnes, Orla Clyde, Mary Ann Morris Spencer, Carol Wiedman, Judy Cook, Karla Kail, Rachel Minger, Connie Meeks, Helen Ahrens Standing L>R: Terry Jones, Richard McClary, Leon Self, John Kenagy, Malcolm Steider, Harold Steider, LarryDurst

Metamora, Illinois, Friday, September 13, 1957 Open House Sunday, Sept. 15 at Morsetown School in Observance of District's 100th Anniversary Morsetown School, District 42, located in Section 4, Metamora township, 3 1/2 miles northeast of Metamora, pictured, and still in use is the only remaining one-room school in Woodford county. The school also has the distinction of being the first free school in Woodford county and one of the first free schools in the state of Illinois. Next Sunday, Sept. 15 from 1 p.m. till 8 p.m. "Open House" will be held at the schook, marking its one hundreth year. There will be an informal program and an exhibit of interesting articles connected with the school's existence, also a history prepared by H. L. Dyar, former superintendent of schools in Woodford county and printed in a booklet will be available to visitors. The Centennial Committe, a group of the patrons and directors of the school are in charge of the "Open House". They cordially invite all to visit the school on this occasion. Mrs. Ralph (Bernice Hahn) Schertz is the teacher of the school. The brick building, the successor of the first frame building in the district, where school was started in 1836, was erected during the years 1854 to 1858.

Hickory Point School The building still stands just south of the present intersection of Route 116 and Hickory Point Road