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Date: Monday, August 23, 1999 5:48 PM
Subject: [SE-TN] RE: 1909 General news Students of Oak Grove School
1861
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Sassy
Mr. & Mrs. Delaney
Mrs. E. H. Delaney, who, with her husband, Lieut. Delaney has just
completed a two years tour around the world, has returned home and
is
the guest of her aunt, Mrs. D. P. Henderson. Lieut. Delaney is now in
Philadelphia and will join his wife here later. Mrs. Delaney was
before
she married Miss Geraldine Anderson. Chattanooga Times
(Journal & Herald Cleveland, TN July 2,1909)
Citizenship Brown Brothers
David Brown and William A. Brown, natives of Lanarke county,
Scotland,
but now residing in the second district of Bradley county, have made
application for citizenship. They have been in this country since
August
15, 1891. They are two of the best known and successful farmers of
Bradley county.
(Journal & Banner Cleveland TN July 2, 1909)
OAK GROVE ACADEMY REUNION
JUNE 3, 1909
The Journal and Banner on Tuesday announced that the students of Oak
Grove Academy would hold their annual reunion in this city on
Homecomming Day during the fair, but this was incorrect. The
publication
was based on misinformation, due to a misunderstanding, and no one
regrets it more than the gentleman who gave us the information.
But the reunion will be held in this city on next Thursday , June 3
and
dinner will be served at the hotel Artz. A feature of the meeting
will
be the reading of the report of the school , students, classes, ect.
Prepared by Col. T.M. Burkett, the principal , before his death .
There
will be a memorial session for Col. Burkett and other deceased
members.
Col. Burkett report, for a copy of which are indebted to Editor B.L.
Heartsill of Dalton Argus, is as follows:
To the surviving members of school who attended old Oak Grove
Academy
at Cleveland, TN in the first half of the year 1861:
I beg you to say that since our very pleasant meeting on the fourth
of
June last , I have found a school record that I kept of said school
and
for your information, and pleasure, I hope , I make you the following
report from said record.
The school was organized on Tuesday , January 1, 1861: we had school
on
the first , second and third days of January. Those days were
probably
devoted to organization and classification, as no grades were kept
during those days, and no record made as to attendance . On Friday,
the
fourth day of January there was no school session; it was a day of
fasting and prayer, appointed by the State Churches, and probably had
reference to the political conditions, which were grave and
threatening.
This daily record of grades in deportment and efficiency in classes
began on Monday , January 7 On that day there was in the school
pupils
and students, numbering fifty- eight as follows:
1. Marcelino Guerra
2. Wm. O. White
3. Wm. L. Pickens
4. Wm. McMillin
5. John H. Reynolds
6. V. M. Campbell
7. Wm. B. Campbell
8. David S. Cooper
9. Lou A. Marsh
10. John Marsh
11. Frank T. Hardwick
12. Joseph H. Hardwick
13. Chas. A. Middlecoff
14. H. W. L. Middlecoff
15. John C. Legg
16. Thos. P. McMillin
17. Wm. E. Russell
18. Alfred A. Russell
19. Wm. Shields
20. John E. Shields
21. Wm. S. Edwards
22. Jas. F. Campbell
23. Jas. T. Turnble
24. Sam S. Edwards
25. John Ross
26. Gus A. Craigmiles
27. John T. Henderson
28. Alvin Beegles
29. J.D. Kenner
30. E.S. Kenner
31. Gus A. Cate
32. Geo. M. Beeler
33. John L. Tibbs
34. Joel F. Johnson
35. Julius Knabe
36. Gus R. Knabe
37. Wm. S. Bowers
38. Mar. Calloway
39. Jas. S. Beegles
40. E. B. F. Beegles
41. Thos. A. Cowan
42. John P. Davis
43. Wm. D. Traynor
44. Arthur Traynor
45. Jas. P. Traynor
46. Sam C. Parks
47. John T. Edwards
48. John T. Simmons
49. Geo. W. Dethridge
50. Dave Dethridge
51. M.S. Beegles
52. Jas. S. Montgomery
53. Rush Montgomery
54. Bois Montgomery
55. Joseph P. Lea
56. Jas. Lea
57. Geo. Lea
58. A.J. Goodner
To be accuratley correct, there were only fifty-six students and
pupils
in the school on Monday morning, the 7th of January. The record shows
that J.D. Kenner and E.S. Kenner , who had evidently been present
the
week before on the seventh , were both at home sick.
On Monday the 14th of January, a week later we had three new pupils
Viz:
59. J.R. Cooper
60. Joseph Osment
61. Thos. Pasley
And on the 9th, being a week later , we had four new students , viz:
62. Sam Keebler
63. Perry Keebler
64. Will L. Cate
65. James Hague
It appears from the record that L. A. Camp was only in school one
day,
and his name is hardley right on our roll.
>From time to time other entries were made as follows:
66. Ringgold McNeely
67. John Hauge
68. Frank Osment
69. C. C. Davis
70. Sam Brown
71. W. L. McSpadden
72. John Brown
73. Joseph Worley
74. W. S. Beckner
75. Henry Trim
76. J. F. Leeper
77. Wm. Tibbs
78. L. A. Camp
79. Richard Cate
80. P.C. Coffman
81. Wm. Payne
82. John Payne
83. Lawrence Payne
84. Dave Strawley
85. Wm. Parker
86. Cal Parker
87. Brad Parker
88. J. K. P. Clingan
Our school was organized on the first day of January, We had good
attendance , the first number increasing through January , February
and
March. Later the war excitement grew high, troops were passing
Cleveland
going to Virginia; war speeches and anti-war speeches were being made
at
the court house ; everybody was excited, and the students were
quitting
school, till on Friday the 31st of May we had about twenty-five
students
in school . On Monday, the third of June school was organized and in
session, and think we kept up a show of keeping school through out
the
following week. And that Monday the 10th . There was no school after
that there may have been none after the third of June, the teacher
like
his school, had gone to pieces , and his school reports were not kept
in
the month of June. The school may have been dismissed on the evening
of
the third of June, but I think it was on the evening of the 10th when
we
adjorned without delay.
Respectfully Submitted
T.M. Burkett
Teacher.
(Journal & Herald Cleveland, TN May 28, 1909)
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