Livingston County High School Graduation 1924

 High school graduation was not a one-night celebration in 1924. It lasted more than a week, ending with the commencement address by the Hon. Alben W. Barkley, who was then serving as U.S. Representative and would become the 35^th Vice President of the United States  (1949-1953) in the administration of President Harry Truman.

Twenty students were in the graduating class of Livingston County High School in 1924. This was the largest class in the eight years’ history of the school. Graduating were John Haynes Adams, Anna Dean Boughter, Millicent Downen, Raymond Bishop Dycus, Viva Grace Foster, Thomas V. Frazier, Dorothy Adams Hibbs, James Lacy Hibbs, L. Leroy May, James Mantz Nelson, Camille Parsons, Mary Elizabeth Peal, Ann Louise Presnell, J. Glenn Radcliffe, James Abell Rutter, Eldon Thompson, Verna Frances Threlkeld, Mary Musa Webb, Emma Aylee Wilson and J. Ned Worten.[1]

The commencement exercises began Thursday evening, May 15^th with a varied program. The graduating class presented the senior play, “Much Ado About Betty,” on two evenings, Thursday, May 15 and Friday, May 16.

The baccalaureate sermon was delivered Sunday, May 18, at the Baptist church by Rev. W.L. Baker, pastor of the Smithland Methodist church. The class night exercises were on May 22 in the high school auditorium.

Barkley delivered the commencement address on Friday evening, May 23, at the school building.

 

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[1] “Barkley Will Be Smithland Orator at Commencement,” The Paducah Sun-Democrat, Thu., 8 May 1924, p. 4.

Published 15 July 2021, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog,  http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Livingston County School Census 1910

One Kentucky research resource often neglected is the school census which was required per an act of the state senate approved in 1883.[1] According to the Journal of the Senate, the district trustee  was to visit every school in April each year to take a census of all children who would be between the ages of six and 21 on or before the first day of May and report the names along with their age, sex plus the names of parent or guardian of each child. Failure on the part of the district trustee resulted in a fine of $20.00.

The following African American children were attending school in District B, Education Division No. 5, Livingston County,  Kentucky in 1910. African American and white school census records are in separate volumes, but all volumes are located in the Livingston County clerk's office. In other counties, the records are sometimes found in the school board office.

Parent/Guardian             Children between ages of 6 and 20 and birth dates

Wm. Pringle                         Ollie Pringle - born 14 Jan 1894

                                                Lute Pringle - born 31 Jan 1896

                                                Willie Pringle - born 8 Mar 1898

                                                Bertha Pringle - born 28 May 1900

                                                Cleta Pringle - born 13 Nov 1903

Signe Pringle                      Iliff Pringle - born 29 Jun 1896

                                                Sid Pringle - born 7 Nov 1897

                                                Diana Pringle - born 9 Aug 1899

                                                Enua[2] Pringle - born 31 Aug 1902

                                                Edith Pryor - born 18 Jan 1891

Thos. Pippin                       Norval Pippin - born 1 Mar 1896

                                                Ruth Pippin - born 20 Feb 1899

                                                Charlie Pippin - born 1 Dec 1902

                                                Alice Pritchett - born 3 Jul 1899

                                                Calvin Pritchett[3] - born 27 Sep 1902

Wm. Champion                 Alburta Champion - born 5 Oct 1902

                                               Gladous Champion - born 9 Feb 1904

                                               Grotie Champion - born 12 Mar 1898

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[1] Journal of the Regular Session of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Article VIII, Sec. 13, p. 813, District Trustee (Frankfort, KY: S.L.M. Major, public printer, 1884) 816.

[2] 1910 Livingston County, Kentucky census, Roll T624_491, p. 7B, E.D. 105, Ancestry.com. This child is listed as Emma Pringle on the census.

[3] 1910 Livingston County, Kentucky census, Roll T624_491, E.D. 105, Sheet 8B. Alice and Calvin Pritchett are listed as step children of Thos. Pippin.

Published 13 Feb 2020, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog,  http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

From Our Photo Album

Century Normal College

Kuttawa, Lyon County, Kentucky

1900 - ca 1910

Published 28 August  2018, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

High School Graduates 1896-1897

By the turn of the 19th century, more students were receiving diplomas of graduation from high schools. The following Crittenden County, Kentucky students graduated between 1 January 1896 and 30 June 1897, as recorded in Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kentucky, 1897.

Chas. O. Simpson, Maggie Phipps, J.A. Stephens, J.A. Davidson, Anna L. Blackburn, Sallie Woods, Kate C. Browning, Hiram A. Davis, Adelia G. Clemont, Anna L. Finley, J.H. Reed, Ida May Drenan, Francis M. Gray, L.P. Sunderland, J.H. Stephens, Anna Frasier, C.C. Taylor, Dennie Hubbard, J.C. Chipps, Jesse Farris, F.A. Casner, Lillie M. Wilson, C.W. Haynes, Rosa Schwab, Leaffa Wilborn, Bettye D. Bingham, Mamie N. Franks, Mary I. Maxwell, Flavel E. Davis, Maggie Jordan, G.W. Thomas, Lucy B. Walker, Dean Woods, Melville J. Glenn, F.J. Follis, Addie Boyd, R.L. Threlkeld, Harry Ford, Edward Davenport, Daniel J. Travis and B.F. Jacobs.

Published 12 June 2015, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog,  http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Often Overlooked Records Part IV - School Census Records

The School Trustee, who was in charge of each school district, played a big role in Kentucky communities. Among other duties, he was responsible for employing a qualified teacher, "who in no case shall be related to the trustee by blood or marriage ..."[1] If there was a complaint against or by the teacher, he had to deal with it. In addition, he was required to visit each school at the beginning of the year and make monthly visits throughout the year.[2]

The job of the trustee that interests us, as genealogists, relates to  the census that was taken each April in each school in the district. It was the trustee's duty "during the month of April, to take an exact census of all the children then residing in such district, who will be, on the first day of July following, between the ages of six and twenty years ... specifying the name, age, sex and names of the parents or guardian of each child"[3] Failure to take this census could result in the trustee being fined.  While it is great to have a date for the school children, be aware that some years only the age of the child was listed, some times the birth year was omitted and some birth dates vary from year to year.

School census records are found either in the county clerk's office of the courthouse or in the school board office. They may be in bound volumes, as in Livingston County, or as folded, loose papers, as in Lyon County. No matter what form they are, they may provide valuable information.

Part of 1900 Census of Lola School (District 7)
Livingston County, Kentucky

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[1] Article VIII, "District Trustee," Journal of the Regular Session of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Begun and Held in the City of Frankfort on Monday, the Thirty-First of December, in the Year of Our Lord, 1883, and of the Commonwealth the Ninety-Second (Frankfort, KY: S.L.Major, Printer,  1884), 814; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com; accessed 5 December 2014.

[2] Article VIII, "District Trustee, 815."

[3] Article VIII, "District Trustee, 816."

Published 29 January 2015, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Shelton High School - Smithland, Kentucky

I had never heard of Shelton High School in Smithland, Kentucky before I read of its incorporation in Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Chapter 255, in 1869.  This high school predates Livingston Central High School, which opened in 1916, according to Livingston County, Kentucky History and Families 1796-1990.  The following deed is found in Livingston County Deed Book 7, page 488, dated 10 February 1870:

"Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly approved March 1st 1869, all right & title of the state of Kentucky in and to the property in Smithland known as Cumberland Hospital was released to the corporate authorities of the town of Smithland to be held and used for the sole and exclusive purpose of carrying on a High School in sd. Town. And whereas by another act approved Feb. 3rd 1870 incorporating Shelton High School it is enacted that upon the presentation to the corporate authorities of the Town of Smithland of a petition signed by a majority of the voters of sd. Town it shall be their duty to convey to the Trustees of Shelton High School the building in Smithland known as Cumberland Hospital together with all the lands, assets and other property belonging thereto. And whereas a petition praying the conveyance be made ... Now in consideration of the premises and $1 we W. Beverly, Police Judge, and T.C. Leech, W.M. Gray and J.S. Leffler, Trustees of the Town of Smithland, do convey unto R.A. Clopton, James M. Cade, A.A. Grayott, W.M. Gray, S.H. Piles, T.C. Leech and I.T. Handlin, Trustees of Shelton High School and their successors, a piece of ground in Smithland containing 1 acre and is part of out lot #3."

I do not know if Shelton High School ever opened and if it did, how long it was open. Sometime previous to 1836, out lot #3 was divided into three portions, with one portion being where Cumberland Hospital was located. This was the portion upon which Shelton High School was to be situated. Today Smith Funeral Home is located on part of out lot #3.

Published 10 October 2013, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog,  http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

 

 

Shady Grove High School Graduates 1935

The following article appeared in the Evansville (Indiana) Courier on Thursday, 18 April 1935.

Shady Grove, Ky., April 17 - The seniors of Shady Grove high school will present their play at the school auditorium Saturday night. The play has been coached by Hollis Rogers, school principal, and Miss McConnell, senior sponsor. The case includes Vera Gladys Martin, Dorothy Travis, Lera Travis, Lillian Sigler, Bonnie Sigler, Bettie Lee Sigler, Opal McChesney, Anna Belle Cole, J.D. Hubbard, Roy Cobb, Ernest Dorris and Guy McChesney.

The baccalaureate sermon will be preached by the Rev. C.A. Weisner, pastor of the First Christian church of Princeton, Sunday night, April 28, at the Baptist church.

The commencement address will be delivered Friday night, May 3, by Dean Austin of Murray State Teachers' college.

Members of the class are Dorothy Travis, Lera Travis, Vera Gladys Martin, Lillian Sigler, Bonnie Sigler, Bettie Lee Sigler, J.D. Hubbard and Roy Cobb. Dorothy Travis is valedictorian and Lillian Sigler is salutatorian.

Published 25 May 2013, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

St. Vincent's Academy

St. Vincent's Academy was founded in 1820 and was in operation until 1967. Many young ladies of western Kentucky and elsewhere attended this fine boarding school.

The above advertisement appeared in the Henderson Daily Journal, Monday, 3 August 1914.

Published 2 May 2013, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog,  http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Princeton Masonic Female College

In order to educate young ladies to become teachers, the Princeton Masonic Female College was incorporated in 1870 in Caldwell County, Kentucky. What set it apart from other female colleges is that it was open to all females, whether they could afford tuition or not.

It was designed to be "not only for the education of those who may be able to defray the expenses incident to obtaining an education, but to reduce the price of board and tuition, so as to bring the same nearer within the reach of all and to establish a normal department in which destitute young ladies can be furnished board and tuition free, in obtaining necessary qualifications to fit them for teachers ..."

According to Acts of Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Chapter 734, it was approved 15 March 1870.

Trustees of the college were Dr. P.B. McGoodwin, Milton Bird, D.D., Rev. Wm. Childers, Jas. C. Barnes, J.J. McLin, J.P. Rascoe, J.W. Blue, Jas. M. Dawson, R.H. Baker, Jas. H. Leech, F.W. Darby and J.B. Baker. The officers of the board of trustees consisted of a regent, president, secretary and treasurer and the executive committee (3 persons).

No record has been found that tells how long the college existed or where it was located.

 

Common School Report - Caldwell County, Kentucky 1907

The following report of the common schools in Caldwell County, Kentucky is abstracted from the Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kentucky, 1907.

The schools in Caldwell county are doing as well as can be expected under existing circumstances, but they are not yet what we would like to see them. We have built three new houses during the past year and furnished and repaired several others. There are not more than a half-dozen district libraries in the county, but we are going to make a special effort to create an interest in this direction. In District. No. 54, there is a nice library of 100 volumes of good literature. This is the best in the county outside Princeton and Fredonia. Of the 67 white and colored schools there are 11 first-class, 17 second and 39 third-class schools. In these second and third-class districts, with the exception of very few instances, not one cent is raised toward supplementing the salary and extending the school term, consequently these schools are taught by young, inexperienced boys and girls. These teachers are doing their best, and are anxious to become better qualified and often speak of wanting to attend school if the salary were sufficient to do so.

A number of teachers attended the Western State Normal last spring. We believe that half of the teaching force in Caldwell County will enter school at the close of the term. In a few years Normal trained teachers will be in demand, and all who wish to remain in the profession are waking up to a realization of the fact that they much be better qualified in order that they may be able to hold good paying positions. We need more pay and greater requirements. Better salaries mean better qualifications and better teachers. The minimum price should be $40 per month and the educational standard raised in proportion to the increase in salary.

We are sorry to state there is not a graded school in the county. We trust that the next Legislature will bring about some important changes in the school system. It is almost impossible to get trustees to serve. Most of the "Boards" are appointed as the elected trustees rarely ever qualify.

Nannie R. Catlett, Co. Supt.

Historic St. Vincent's Academy

The following information has been abstracted from an article, "St. Vincent Academy is Historic Kentucky School," published in the Evansville (Indiana) Press, Sunday, 9 February 1936.

Five miles north of Morganfield in Union County, hidden from the highway by towering trees and shrubs, stands the oldest secondary educational institution in western Kentucky. It is St. Vincent Academy, founded in 1820 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth.

Prior to 1881, Sisters of the Academy sponsored a small school for boys across the road from the academy. In 1881, the boys' school was closed because of small attendance. It was reopened in 1914 and is September 1923, for the first time in the history of St. Vincent's, 22 boys were enrolled in the academy proper. Francis Murphy was the first graduate of this group.

In 1820, Sisters Angela Spinks, Frances Gardiner and Cecily O'Brien were sent by their superiors to organize a school in Union County on a farm set aside for use of the Sacred Heart Church. They made the journey of some 150 miles on horseback through what was then a wilderness. Their equipment consisted only of what they could tied in three aprons and carry in their arms.

Hardships of that journey were many and the three pioneers met discouragement when they arrived at the log cabin farm house only to find it occupied by a family that refused to move. The three educators spent their first night on what was later to become the academy farm in a poultry house.

Once established in the primitive log cabin, it fell to the lot of Cecily O'Brien and Frances Gardiner to teach the "large" class of five students. The following year the sisters were joined by three more instructors. A log cabin lean-to was added to the cabin. The school started to grow.

By 1842, there were 35 students. To keep pace with the growing enrollment, cabin after cabin was built. In 1852 or 1853, the academy's land totaled some 400 acres, including the property on which the old Sacred Heart Church stood. Construction was started in that year on a new brick academy building. For years the old Sacred Heart Church was used as a recreational hall. A second floor was added to the building and it was to this portion of the school that students were "sentenced" for misdemeanors. Punishment usually consisted of mending clothes or memorizing columns of words from a dictionary.

Perhaps one the best word pictures of the school in the 1850s was left by the wife of General John A. Logan of Civil War fame, in her book, "Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife." She tells how students were coached in manners, or how to enter a parlor and meet guests without being awkward; of sewing all her own clothes, and of the Sister Superior's journeys to Louisville by boat to buy material for graduation costumes and of graduation exercises under the trees on the lawn.

The school was now housed completely in brick buildings. It had its own light plant, its own power plant, orchard, truck garden, dairy and bakery. The enrollment in 1936 was around 135 pupils.

St. Vincent's Academy was in operation until 1967.

Condition of Livingston County Public Schools 1907

The following information has been abstracted from the common school report found in Biennial Report of the Superintendant of Public Instruction of Kentucky, 1907. Teachers leaving their profession for more lucrative occupations was a problem just as it is today.
Smithland, Ky., October 24, 1907
The schools of Livingston county have been progressing nicely the last two years and results have been very satisfactory. The most impending danger confronting the schools now is the threatening desertion on the part of teachers from the teaching profession. Some of our best teachers are beginning to look elsewhere for better pecuniary rewards. The demands for young men and ladies of ability in other vocations are too great for teachers of rural schools to be contented with their present salaries.

The school population of Livingston county is on the decline, there being several hundred fewer pupils in the county now than a few years ago. The decline has greatly affected many of our rural schools, reducing them to the "pauper" classification. We have too many school districts, more than the number of pupils justify, and how to remedy the situation is a problem. Educational enthusiasm, however, is not on the decline. We had had a new graded school established this year, making a total of five in the county; we have had 53 common school graduates and four high school graduates; we have had our full quota at the State Norman and expect a good representation there again in the spring. We have by two students at the State College now.

The first and most important proposition confronting the schools today is how to secure more funds - better wages for teachers. We need to keep the teachers of experience in the profession.

In conclusion I must say that I believe there are better days ahead for our schools ...

Yours truly,

Charles Ferguson

Co. Supt. Livingston County.

Henderson Female College

An Act to Incorporate the Henderson Female College was approved 30 September 1861. Trustees were appointed and included John H. Lambert, John Rudy, Joe Adams, Col. Jackson McClain, Shelby Nunn, John H. Barrett, F.B. Cromwell, Thomas D. Telford and James Henderson. The location in Henderson of the College is unknown. No mention of the Henderson Female College was found in Starling's History of Henderson and I have not found this institution mentioned anywhere else except for a brief ad and article in the Henderson Reporter.

In the 2 July 1863 issue of the Reporter, an article appeared about the College. It stated that the "fourth session of the Henderson Female College will commence on Monday, 7th September next. The College, during the three years it has been conducted, has been established on a firm foundation, and has achieved a reputation that would be creditable to older institutions of learning. It is an institution of which our city may justly feel proud, and we doubt not the number of pupils in attendance will be satisfactory evidence of the estimation in which the College is held by parents and guardians."

The following advertisement appeared in the same issue of the newspaper. I do not find H.B. Parsons listed in the 1860 or 1870 census of Henderson County. Because of the scarcity of information on this college and perhaps because of the Civil War, I assume it did not exist very long.

William C.C. Jones - Early Teacher

Most Caldwell County researchers have heard of the Princeton Seminary, but many are unaware this school was formerly known as the Caledonia Academy. Information on this old academy comes from an article in the Evansville, Indiana Press of Sunday, 25 October 1936.

On South Seminary Street between West Main and Washington Streets now stands the Methodist Church. But not so many years ago this site was occupied by the Caledonia Academy, one of Western Kentucky's earliest attempts to foster institutions of higher education.

The school was established in 1821. Five years later its name was changed to Princeton Seminary.

One of the most colorful figures in the early history of the institution was William Charles Cavendish Jones, a teacher. Born in Cavendish Square, London, England, Jones was educated at Eton. He was a classmate of Gladstone.

Jones' father was a British cavalry captain. Following the death of Jones' mother, the captain married again. The story is told that when young Jones saw his stepmother wearing his mother's earrings, he pulled them from her ears. Then, knowing a flogging was in store for him, he fled England aboard an American sailing vessel.

It took him three years to reach the States.

Jones taught his first school at Sprout Springs, two miles south of Princeton. Later, he instructed a class in the basements of the Christian and Presbyterian Churches and another at the old Wood settlement near where Cobb, Ky., is now located before going to the Princeton Seminary.

At his death at the age of 81, he was one of Caldwell County's oldest teachers. He had been teaching school for 53 years.

Note: William C.C. Jones married Miss Elizabeth Martin 10 October 1843 in Caldwell County. He appeared on the 1880 Caldwell County census, age 70, but is not on the 1900 census.

Wordless Wednesday - Pleasant Grove School

1930s photograph of some students of Pleasant Grove School, Crittenden County, Kentucky.
Front row: Corene Croft, Helen Stalion
Middle row: Margaret Aldridge, LaVern Croft, Charlene Curnel, Ralph Stalion
Back row: Loma Madry, Macie Little, Maurice Stalion, James Guy Aldridge

Dixon School, Livingston County, Kentucky 1925

The following are identified:
Back: Alma Crass, teacher
Middle: Frank May, Denny Workman, Kitty Lee Workman, Roberta Clark, Lucille May, unknown, Florella Ramage.
Front: John Workman, James Workman, Alben Ramage.

Nichols School Census 1900 - Caldwell County, Kentucky

Of the western Kentucky counties in which I research, all have school census records dating back to the late 1890s. Lyon County is fortunate in that their school census records go back even earlier to 1885. These records are in the form of loose papers (Crittenden, Caldwell and Lyon counties) or bound volumes (Livingston County) and are located either in the county clerk’s office or in the school board office. The following record for Nichols School was located in the school board office, Princeton, Kentucky.

The following format is used: Name of parent or guardian, names of children between the ages of 6 and 20 (even married children), birthdates of children and address of the family.

J.W. Sell, parent/guardian of Porter M. Sell born 26 December 1890 and William E. Sell born 11 May 1892. Dulaney

R.H. Craig, parent/guardian of Mary E. Craig born 2 May 1861, John N. Craig born 1 August 1883, Ruth Craig born 28 April 1886, Annie E. Craig born 5 February 1891 and R. Frank Craig born 8 September 1893. Princeton.

J.S. Martin, parent/guardian of Fred Martin born 10 April 1886 and N. Nellie Martin born 5 February 1891. Princeton.

H.G. Cash, parent/guardian of Gladys Cash born 19 May 1893. Dulaney.

T.L. Cash, parent/guardian of Helon Cash born 17 April 1883, Tommie Cash born 3 July 1886, Sudie Cash born 23 July 1889 and Katie Cash born 6 May 1893. Dulaney.

N.M. Sell, parent/guardian of Robert B. Sell born 15 May 1886 and Roy C. Sell born 27 April 1893. Princeton.

J.T. Beck, parent/guardian of Laura Beck born 24 May 1881, Herbert S. Beck born 7 October 1882, J. Walton Beck born 29 Aug 1884, L. Clinton Beck born 15 December 1886, Bessie Beck born 18 April 1889, William R. Beck born 31 January 1892 and James T. Beck born 7 February 1894. Princeton.

S.J. Rucker, parent/guardian of Clyda J. Rucker born 5 December 1889 . Princeton.

Jas. C. Wheatly, parent/guardian of Cora L. Wheatly born 22 December 1883. Princeton.

Eli Nichols, parent/guardian of Gertrude Nichols born 3 November 1882, Nannie Nichols born 5 October 1884, Birdie Nichols born 19 October 1888, Myrtle Nichols born 15 September 1893 and Leonard Hubbard born 27 May 1884. Princeton.

Blooming Rose School

The above photograph is supposed to be of students at Blooming Rose School in Crittenden County and was given to my mother not long before her death. No date is given, but it is believed that my grandmother, Nettie C. Vaughn (1897 - 1958), was about 14 or 15 years old at the time. It struck me how much my mother looked like her mother and how much I resemble both of them. Note how it seems as if each person is lost in his own thoughts, including the two little faces looking out the window. A moment in time captured forever.

The persons are identified thusly:
Back Row: Claud Belt, Harry Johnson, Kenny Clark, unknown
Front Row: unknown, unknown, Nettie (Vaughn) Croft [my grandmother], Hollis Franklin, teacher who later became President of Farmers Bank, Florence (Clark) Suits, Eva (Croft) Belt.

Published 23 Nov 2008, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog,  http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Subscription School Pledges 1852

In order to obtain an education for their children, parents of students were obliged to pledge payment to either the school trustees or the teacher. The following list of subscribers was found in a county court case in which the trustees of School District 31 in Crittenden County, Kentucky sued John Yates for non-payment of his pledge.

We the undersigned promise to pay to the Trustees of School District No. 31 Crittenden Co Ky. the amount set to our names for the support of a common school in sd. District for the term of Five months (twenty weeks) the school to commence in September next. August 1852.

Subscribers
J.L. Maxwell $5.00
Andrew Love paid
Jordan Hoover $5.00
B.B. Terry 8.00
Jesse Lucus paid
J.M.[?] Smart 3.00
John R. Jones 4.00
John Yatz 10.00
James Davis 2.00 [marked out]
S.A. Farmer paid 5.00
Richard Elson 5.00 [marked out]
Alexr. Coleman 5.00
S.G. Stevens 5.00
R.A. Love 6.00
O.B. Migget 2.00
Arthur Love 5.00
Berry Ellison 6.00
A. Franklin 5.00
William Love paid 5.00
George Clarke 3.00
Jordan Doubty 1.00
Jesse Champion paid 2.00
P. Kidd paid 4.00

Caldwell County School Districts 1822

The following can be found following the 1822 Caldwell County, Kentucky Tax List (microfilm) and provides information on the number of school age children at that time.

As Clerk of the Caldwell County Court I certify that by an Order of said court passed at their April term 1822, the sd. County was laid off into Eleven School Districts. I further certify that the following are the number of children between the ages of four and fourteen in each school district as returned by each Commissioner so far as they have returned their Commissioners books, to wit: in School District No. 1 - 128 children, in School District No. 2 Fifty Children, in School District No. 3 no return made, in District No. 4 One hundred and fifty eight children, in District No. 5 One hundred and Eighty One children, in District No. 6 One hundred and fifty nine children, District 7 - 272 children, in district No. 8 - 213 Childred, in district No. 9 - 242 Children, in district No. 10 - 113 children - in district No. 11 Eighty four Children. [signed] Jno. H. Phelps Clk.