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Mrs.
Mary Ellen Taylor, Miss Fern Jennings. Teachers in 1937 were Mr.
and Mrs. A W. Coltharp.
SALEM
According to the Tulia Herald, the Salem School was organized in
1890 with twenty pupils. Salem was originally located in the northeast
quadrant of the county, eleven miles north and eleven miles east
of Tulia. Grandmother Knight and her two sons, Charlie and Elmer,
and W. R. Jones were some of the early settlers.
Some of the teachers were: Prof. Gyer, Jess Pearson, Alice Beazley,
Emma Enuffer, Lula Conner, Mr. Patterson, Sarah Nalls, Prof. Norid,
Bell Parker, Prof. Gilliand, Faye Madison, Nina Burleson, Clara
Teague, Luther Sharp, Hazel Kurth, Ruth Sparks. In 1922, Mrs. Edgar
Davis taught and following her were Mary Harp, Zona Cox, Edna Pearson,
and Annie Greer. In 1925, the school employed two teachers. Some
of these have
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been Annie and Lenore Greer, Zona Cox and Eunice May,
Carrie Franks and Aline Segraves, Mr. and Mrs. Jameson, Mr. and
Mrs. Boone Lacewell, Mr. James Strange and Zona Cox, Arthur Jennings,
Aline McGehee, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Franklin were the teachers in
1937.
Trustees in 1937 were Amos Ratjen, Frank Cox, and Johnnie Davis.
Salem shared the fate of other rural schools, in a few years they
either. transferred or were consolidated with Tulia, and Happy.
UNION HILL
The Union Hill School District was created in 1892. Then in a few
years the Word school and New Hope school were consolidated with
Union Hill. According to one of the Evans Girls the New Hope School
house was on skids and when the school population shifted they would
move the school house to the center of population. A Miss Mulky
was the first teacher at New Hope.
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