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

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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