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were: Mrs. Howard Edwards, Helen Manns, Florance Vaughn, Myrtle
Hurst, Helen Kurth, Irene Wrenn, Nadine Wrenn, Frank Crawley, Estha
Barnett, Bertha Childress, Mrs. W. H. Edmondson, and C. P. Mitchell,
possibly others.
Some of the families served by Kaffir school were: J.C. Mann, RH.
Bradford, Adam Julch, Frank Jennings, John Everling, Paul Goettsch,
J. H. Bates, Fred Kinslow, Fred Patching, Fred Slover, Joe Simmons,
Edwin Parsons, Bruce Parsons, Elma Smith, John Finck, Charles Lee
White, Whitley, Lockridge, and John Grundy.
Kaffir School was rated by the State Board of Education as a standard
rural school.
ALEXANDER
31 May 1912, A. J. Askey and others petitioned the Commissioner's
Court to form a new school
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district
in the southeast part of the county, to be known as Alexander School.
District number 23. This district was carved out of the Price school
district, number seven. The school was named in honor of Gordon
Alexander who donated the land upon which the school house was located.
It was later moved to the George Reid section.
Mr. Hegg was the first teacher, followed by Mr. Stanley
Sigler. Some of the early trustees were W. C. Young, D. W. Mayfield,
and L. D. Stark. Teachers in 1937 were Mr. and Mrs. Mose Damron
of Motley county. Trustees at that time were H. A. Hodges, L. D.
Young, and R. A. Stark.
Some of the people of the Alexander community in the 1960's were:
R. A. Stark, Mose Damron, Alvin Stark, Mrs. Ollie Stark, W. C. George,
Rose Dalton, G. H. Dalton, Aaron Clark, J. H. Warrick, Mrs. W. C.
George, and L. D. Young.
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