![]() HlGH SCHOOL, 1935. The building to
the right of the old high school, built in 1875, is the new high
school.
The school and gym were built in 1924 and razed in 1960. Rising Sun High School, 1923. The gathering of local citizens on the Rising Sun High School playground was for an unknown purpose. The high school itself (unseen in the picture) was built in 1875. In 1924. the building was razed to be replaced by a new larger high school and gym on the same site. The picture shows the basketball goals. The basketball team played Outdoors because the previous school bad no gym. The current Life Squad building is situated on the former high school land. |
![]() Rising Sun High School Alumni 1875-1923 Ohio County, Indiana ![]() |
![]() New High School, 1923. In the background is (he old high school, soon to be replaced with a new building. The new school superintendent J.C.. Turner oversaw the construction and restructuring of the high school. The new high school sat on land that held the outdoor basketball court. Only four classrooms, a study hall, a shop, and home economics rooms were in the new school, therefore forcing the high school to continue using the third floor of the old school tor classes. |
| 1875 | |
| Fannie Rabb (Green) | Rising Sun. Ind. |
| Lillic Smith (Rabb) | Denver. Colo. |
| Jones J. Seward | Deceased |
| Lou Espey (Marble) | Jeffersonville. Ind |
| Maggie Matson (Ryle) | Covington, Ky. |
| 1876 | |
| Hattie Gary (Jackson) | Coronada, Cal. |
| H. Steward Espey | Rising Sun. Ind. |
| Mary Parker (Cox) | Sherman, Texas |
| Ella Latham (Grandy) | Sterling. Kans. |
| Geo. E. Downey | Washington, DC. |
| Julia Latham (Talbott) | Osiris, Okla. |
| 1877 | |
| Mattie Waldo (Rockafcllar) | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Julia Rabb (Ferger) | Deceased |
| Cassic Sebree (Sherman) | Deceased |
| 1878 | |
| Haynes Espey | Colorado |
| Robert Ruler | Alabama |
| James C. Bryant | Irvinglon, Ind. |
| Nettie Van Ness (McConnell) | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Emma Buchanan | Deceased |
| 1879 | |
| Harry Fisher | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Mills Seward | Deceased |
| Charles Jones | Deceased |
| Katie Piatt (Battorff) | Charleston, Ind. |
| Fannie Todd (Abbott) | Englewood, Kan. |
| Carrie James (Nace) | Deceased |
| 1881 | |
| Maggie McClure (Turner) | Hammond. Ind. |
| John R. Espey | Trinidad, Col. |
| Frances Cope (Gibson) | Deceased |
| M.S. Gibson | Deceased |
| FA. Withers | Deceased |
| 1882 | |
| Rachel Hall (Grober) | Covington, Ky. |
| Etta Williams (Wykoff) | Deceased |
| Eugene B. Gore | Deceased |
| Nettie Calvert (Sallee) | Deceased |
| Jo Waldo (Eggleston) | Deceased |
| Etta Miller (Spenser) | Deceased |
| 1883 | |
| Jessie Stephens (Wilson) | Grant. Ky. |
| Susie Cope (Miller) | S. Harem. Kan. |
| Lillie Gary (Miller) | Holdcn. Mo. |
| W.E. Bennett | Detroit, Mich. |
| 1884 | |
| Maiy Crouch (Fisk) | Deceased |
| Lizzie Gillespie | Deceased |
| Hugh Gary | Lafayette. Ind. |
| Kathleen Whitlock (Porter) | Portsmouth, O. |
| Stella Marble (Welch) | Mavis Hill, Ind. |
| Grant Dei verse | Deceased |
| Stella Williams | Deceased |
| John Much | Newton. Kan. |
| Bruce Lemmon | Indiana Harbor. Ind. |
| Albert Cooper | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| 1885 | |
| Libbie Fish (Lynn) | Memphis, Term. |
| G.A. Stevenson | Harvey, III. |
| Edith Lindsey (Cope) | Indianapolis. Ind. |
| Jessie Rutter | Birmingham, Ala. |
| Hugh B. Gibson | Deceased |
| 1886 | |
| Nettie Barbour (Stevenson) | Harvey, Ill. |
| M.L. Barbour | Cincinnati, O. |
| Emma Easton (Clarke) | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Frank M. Downey | Deceased |
| J.C. Nelson | |
| Inez Matson (Harless) | Atlanta. Ga. |
| Carrie Clore (Shelby) | Camden. Miss. |
| 1887 | |
| Haydn Hall | Dayton. Ky. |
| May Espey (Warren) | Washington. D.C. |
| Fannie Records (Hunter) | Bucklin. Kan. |
| Nellie North | Rising Sun. Ind. |
| Wm. Gillespie | Cincinnati. O. |
| Newton McGuire | Indianapolis. Ind. |
| Julia Shaw (Cooper) | Rising Sun. Ind. |
| J.N. Cooper | Omaha. Neb. |
| H.S. Stevenson | Rising Sun. Ind. |
| Alice Nelson (Palmer) | Hamilton. O. |
| Henry M. Rabb | Deceased |
| Clifford W. Monroe | Deceased |
| Ahbie Harris (McGuire) | Deceased |
| 1888 | |
| Anna Marble (Baxter) | Delphos. O. |
| W.T. Hastings | Indianapolis. Ind. |
| Etta Matson (Stevens) | Rising Sun. Ind. |
| Fannie Newman (Spaulding) | Madison. Ind. |
| Lydia Linscott (Bodle) | Rising Sun. Ind. |
| A.F. Brown | Cincinnati. O. |
| Gertrude Harris (Espey) | Trinidad. Col. |
| Grant Collins | Rising Sun. Ind. |
| Sadie Scranton (Stevenson) | Rising Sun. Ind. |
| Henry R. Nelson | Deceased |
| Arthur M. Fish | Deceased |
| Samuel C. Baker | Deceased |
| Winifred Bassett | New York. N.Y. |
| 1889 | |
| W.H. Johnson | Rising Sun. Ind. |
| Amelia Heyn | Cincinnati. O. |
| Stella Murphy | Greensburg. Ind. |
| Hallie Loring (Wheeler) | Clinton. Minn. |
| Allie Marble (LeMaster) | Orange. N.J. |
| Maude Lemmon (Voorhees) | Hartford City. Ind. |
| Addic Williamson | Deceased |
| Jennie Pink | Cincinnati. O. |
| 1890 | |
| Lucian Harris | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Alice Perkins (Caldwell) | Rushville, Ind. |
| Nellie James | St. Louis, Mo. |
| Sara Waldo (Beal) | Delphos, O. |
| Blanche French (Dalrymple) | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Sallie Baker (Bull) | Colorado |
| Fanny Johnson (Davis) | Deceased |
| Mamie Brown | Deceased |
| Fannie Coles (Jarvis) | Deceased |
| Sam Mullen | Grangeville, Col. |
| 1891 | |
| B.H. Scranton | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Jennie Heyn (Kahn) | Cincinnati, O. |
| Harry Loring | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Eva Downey | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| E.S. Espey | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Nettie Marble | Cincinnati, O. |
| Emma Hirschaner (Kramer) | Belleview. Ky. |
| H.J. North | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| James G. Espey | Trinidad, Col. |
| Anna Toohy | Deceased |
| Kate Kelso (Steele) | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Jerome Wilson | Rabbit Hash, Ky. |
| Emma Gary | Allansville, Ind. |
| W.B. Harris | Tulsa, Okla. |
| Beverly Nelson | Deceased |
| Hugh E. Perkins | Deceased |
| Alice Stewart (Whitlock) | Deceased |
| 1892 | |
| Ellen C. Stewart | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Bess Robins (Mygatt) | Cincinnati, O. |
| Felter Stewart (Larue | |
| Bertha Seward (Harris) | Tulsa, Okla. |
| Ida Miller (Aylor) | Huntington, W. Va |
| Bayard Stevenson | Harvey, III. |
| F.J. Cofield | Newcastle, Ind. |
| Burke Keeney | Cincinnati, O. |
| Sara Bradbury | Deceased |
| Henrietta Summers (Richwind) | Deceased |
| Edward Scott | Deceased |
| Maude Wooley (Eubanks) | Deceased |
| Blanche Porter | Deceased |
| E. Maude Matson | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| 1893 | |
| Viola Walker (Caldwell) | Hartsville, Ind. |
| Thomas Records | Evansville, Ind |
| Bellie Dolph (Hodges) | Rabbit Hash. Ky. |
| Lizzie Pate (Lewis) | Deceased |
| Selwyn P Brown | Deceased |
| G.B. Sweazey | Salt Lake. Utah |
| Grace Hastings | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Mary Cooper | Omaha, Neb. |
| Minnie Tholke | Cincinnati, O. |
| 1894 | |
| Alice Wilson (Clore) | Rabbit Hash, Ky. |
| Vernie Hanna (Misner) | Lawrenceburg, Ind. |
| Lizzie Marble (Scott) | Lawrenceburg, Ind. |
| .1895 | |
| Bayard Keeney | Shelbyville. Ind. |
| Emma Wilbur (Gibson) | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Jessie Nelson | San Francisco, Cal. |
| Daisy North (Wade) | Patriot. Ind. |
| Clara Riley (Drake) | Deceased |
| F.W. Niemeier | Deceased |
| Louis Heyn Cincinnati. O. | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| WM. Green, Jr. | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| H.L. Gibson | Deceased |
| 1896 | |
| Mary Burns (Perkins) | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Nellie Hewitt (Baker) | Hawford, Cal. |
| Susanna Jones (Baker) | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Mary Toohy | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Grace Clark (Tilton) | Aurora, Ind. |
| Earl Seward | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Laura Johnson (Nelson) | McAlester, Okla. |
| Gertrude Marble (Richmond) | Aurora, Ind. |
| Jessie Waldo (Kelly) | Deceased |
| Edward W. Davis | Deceased |
| Iva Hall | (Shigley) |
| Ida Dalrymple | (Wooley) |
| 1897 | |
| Jessie Bradford (Whitlock) | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Luella Van Dever | Sugar Branch, Ind. |
| Anna Ward (French) | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| B. Dale Keeney | Seattle, Wash. |
| Lucinda Records | |
| Hale Keeney | Middlesboro, Ky. |
| Leila M. Elleslon | Rising Sun. Ind. |
| Stella Mills | Deceased |
| Mary H. Coles | Deceased |
| Orvin L. Fish | Deceased |
| 1898 | |
| E. Burke Elfers | El Paso, Texas |
| John C. Elliott | Gilford, Ind. |
| Harold C. Perkins | Deceased |
| Walter L. Hahn | Deceased |
| 1899 | |
| Harry Nelson | Cincinnati, O. |
| Addye Neal (Dunning) | Rising Sun. Ind. |
| Lelah Lattow | Springfield. O. |
| John McConnell | Wyandotte. Mich |
| Carrie Thompson | Grangeville. Cal. |
| Susie Saunders | Indianapolis. Ind. |
| Clarence Evans | |
| 1900 | |
| Clarence Dugle | Rushville. Ind. |
| Guy Facemiere | Cincinnati, O. |
| Paul Espey | Xenia. O. |
| James Daley | Anderson, Ind. |
| Evereil McAllister | North Carolina |
| Julia Lynn (Hagan) | Deceased |
| 1901 | |
| Jessie Miller (Hanna) | Rising Sun. Ind. |
| Geneva Harris (Scott) | Rising Sun. Ind. |
| Wm. Ricketts | Rising Sun. Ind. |
| Mabel Hunter | Cleveland, O. |
| Mabel McKenney (Brodie) | Owensburg, Ky. |
| Edward Gore | Stick, Ark. |
| Roy E. Harris | Cincinnali, O. |
| Martin Green | Stockton, Cal. |
| Mary Daly (Scranton) | Cincinnati, O. |
| George Elholt | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Hugh Espey | Los Angeles, Cal. |
| Chas. W. Twineham | Fairview, Ind. |
| Varina Miller (Losey) | Fairmount. W. Va. |
| 1902 | |
| Allie Detmer (Siekman) | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Robert Tumy | Iowa |
| Lolla Ward (Rice) | Rabbit Hash, Ky. |
| Frankie Clore (Mullin) | Kokomo, Ind. |
| Clara B. Smith | |
| Pembroke Overly | (Marshall) |
| 1903 | |
| Lotta Scott (Daly) | Indianapolis, Ind. |
| Orville | North Patriot, Ind. |
| M. Clara Welsch | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Florence Clore (Brock) | Evansville, Ind. |
| Roy Newman | |
| Maude Welsch (Espey) | Rising Sun. Ind. |
| Phoebe Espey (Johnson) | Phelan, Cal. |
| Maude Sholey (Hickey) | Covington. Ky. |
| Yetta Gibson (Long) | Peoria. III. |
| Bertha Jarvis (Ricketts) | |
| Lawrence L. Thiebaud | |
| Roy Lemmon | |
| 1904 | |
| Annabel Buchanan (Merrill) | Indianapolis, Ind |
| Howard Torrence | Seymour, Ind. |
| Jane North | Rising Sun. Ind. |
| Addic Hayman (Dugle) | Rushville, Ind. |
| Guy Lanesdale | Highmore, N.D. |
| Crandal Green | Litte Rock. Ark. |
| Jeannclle Miller (Randell) | Dillsboro, Ind. |
| David Green | Norwood, O. |
| W.B. Harris | Cincinnati. O. |
| L.C. Gibson | Rising Sun. Ind. |
| Ida Hastings | Indianapolis, Ind. |
| Alice Meade | Deceased |
| Vesle Helen Overly | Indianapolis, Ind. |
| Mary Frances Smith | |
| 1905 | |
| James Rieman | Aurora, Ind. |
| Harold Neal | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| John Perkins | Washington, D.C. |
| Charles Elfers | Indianapolis. Ind. |
| Florence Buchanan | Cleveland, O. |
| Lelah Walton | Cleveland, O. |
| Albert Detmer | Aurora, Ind. |
| Percival Tumy | Grand Rapids, Mich. |
| F.M. Loring | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Catherine Elfers (Abbott) | Louisville, Ky. |
| Mozella Flick | |
| Elbert Ryle | |
| 1906 | |
| Charles Hanna | Lebanon, Ky. |
| Ada Niemeier | Rising Sun. Ind |
| Bessie Turner (Rogers) | Piqua, O. |
| Ruth Newman | Cincinnati, O. |
| Marita Bennett (Hamilton) | |
| Anna McConnell (Huston) | Indianapolis, Ind |
| Delia Gary (Powell) | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Elmer Daly Russell, | Ky. |
| Fred Barricklow (Gibson) | Rising Sun. Ind. |
| Margaret Stegemiller | Chicago, III. |
| Daisy Sink (Alien) | Deceased |
| Mary Siewart Harris | Deceased |
| John B. Coles | Deceased |
| B.H. Ellislon | Deceased |
| Mary Frances Lynn | Greensburg, Ind. |
| Blanche Sedam | Montana |
| Robert Espey | Indianapolis, Ind. |
| Goldie McHenry (Schmidt) | Indianapolis, Ind. |
| Fred Harris | Cincinnati, O. |
| 1907 | |
| Emma Neal (Keith) | |
| Mary Hunter | Indianapolis, Ind. |
| Carl Turner | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Earl Driver | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Dorothy Humphrey (Hemphill) | Peoria. III. |
| Lelah Richmond (Dickey) | Knightstown, Ind. |
| Edna Neaman (Hoffmeier) | Bear Branch, Ind. |
| Albert Schroder | |
| Ross Daly | Pittsburg. Pa. |
| Harriette Tumy (Wright) | |
| Shelby Cowen | Cincinnati, O. |
| Loring Hartford | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| James Harris | El Paso, Tex. |
| Charles Voris | |
| Fred Egelston | Deceased |
| 1908 | |
| Gertrude Cope | Hartford, Conn. |
| Wm. North | Cincinnati, O. |
| Grace Schrumpf (Bunger) | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Jessie McHenry (Franklin) | Dayton, O. |
| Lucy Barricklow (Jones) | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Russell Sullivan | New York, N.Y. |
| Blanche Williams | Bend, Oregon |
| Bertha McHenry (Fisher) | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Pearl Wade (Bradley) | Warsaw, Ky. |
| Stanley Powell Rising | Sun, Ind. |
| Edna North (Torrence) | Seymour, Ind. |
| Clyde Newman | Liberty, Ind. |
| Flora Pate (Langsdale) | High More, N.D. |
| Charles Gary Rising | Sun, Ind. |
| Carl Dibble | Deceased |
| Mary Elliott | Deceased |
| Eva Gary | |
| 1909 | |
| Katie Sholey (rancher) | Cincinnati, O. |
| Thomas Cooper | Aurora. Ind. |
| Hallie Gary | Indianapolis, Ind. |
| Lowe Nelson | Terre Haute, Ind. |
| McAdams Cole | Indianapolis, Ind. |
| James Delmer | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Josephine Cochran | |
| Furman D. Newman | Deceased |
| Laura Schrumpf (Gary) | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| 1910 | |
| Louise Espey (Cooper) | Aurora, Ind. |
| Clara Vinup | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Hiram Turner | Panama |
| Eunice Gary (Pickett) | |
| John Durbin | Rising Sun, Ind. |
| Carroll Steuver | Rising Sun, |
| Esietla Steuver (Prichard) | Aurora, Ind. |
| Mary Schroeder Wessler | Deceased |
| Mae Cope (Gary) | Indianapolis, Ind. |
| Harry Schroeder | Cincinnati, O. |
| Sylvia Hillis (Clemens) | Latonia. Ky. |