Schools in Jasper County, Illinois
Schools in Jasper County, Illinois
Advance School
- Location:
Known teachers: Orell Brooks (1928-29)
Bird School
- Located: east of Falmouth
Known teachers: C.D. Pickens (1905)
Blair School
- Located about 10 miles south of Newton.
Known teachers: Albert Kittle (c. 1893-1895), John Hamilton of Bogota (1894)
Bogota School
- Location:
Known teachers: Nola Keever (1910), Minnie Graves (1910)
Buckeye School
- Location: two miles south of Kedron
Known teachers: Jasper Worthey (1898), Ira Burnside (1910), Floyd D.K. Price (1914-15)
Buck Grove School
- Location:
Known teachers:
Brockville School
- Location:
Known teachers: W.E. Isley
Brown School
- Location:
Known teachers: Nellie Redman (1910)
Calvin School
- Location: 2 miles south of Bogota
Known teachers: Luther Wooden (1899) O.P. Chesnut (1916)
Center School
- Location:
Known teachers: Shirley R. Hall (1930)
Cherry Grove School
- Location: Half a mile south of Lis
Known teachers: A.B. Johnson, (1891)
Coad School
- Location: Northwest of Rose Hill
Known teachers: Paul Harker (1920)
College Hill School
- Location: two miles west of Bogota
Known Teachers: Nelle Clark (1898)
Cummins School
- Location: Crooked Creek Township
Known Teachers: Frank P. Hunt (1894)
Dallmier School
- Location: 7 miles southeast of Newton
Known Teachers: Mary Mattingly (1923)
Fairview School
- Location: one mile north of Hunt.
Known Teachers:
Foltz School
- Location: first located a half mile west of Ray Foltz Garage - later
Reba's Store, then it got moved to just north of Reba's Store
Known Teachers: Dorothy Clark (1947)
Frazier School
- Location:
Known Teachers: Vivian James (1904) -- Belle Clark (1911)
Greenwood School
Location:
Known Teachers: Wilmer J. Maginn (1909)
Hickory School
- Location: The school was located 4½ miles north of Newton.
Known Teachers: Lena Raef (1910)
Hidalgo School
- Location:
Known Teachers: Bill Houser (1893), Lillie Roberts (1923)
Holm School
- Location: 2 miles south and 1 mile west of Wheeler
Known Teachers: Tom Phillips (1891)
Hunt School
- Location: Hunt City
Known Teachers: Emery Gifford (1916)
Hutson School
- Location: two miles west of Hidalgo
Known Teachers: Mrs. Mollie McComas Reynolds (1894); Samuel Strader (1913)
Johnson School
- Location: South Muddy township
Known Teachers: Samuel Galloway (1903)
Jones School
- Located three miles northeast of Falmouth (northeast of Newton also)
Known Teachers: Minnie Bliss Mitchell (1900), Wiley Lewis (1903), Betty Williams (1910)
Kedron School
Location: 7 miles west of Newton
Known Teachers:
Kepley school
- Located in the southwest corner of Jasper county
Known Teachers: John Breedlove (1910); William Fuson (1912)
Kerns School
Location: Grove Twp, one mile south and two miles east of Gila
Known Teachers: Inez Feezel (1899),
W.I. Ross (1912), Ocie Moomaw (1915)
Kessler School
Location:
Known Teachers: Julia Kaufmann (1907)
Kibler School
Location:
Known Teachers: Jim Raper
Latona School
Location:
Known Teachers: Dan Kirkham (1896)
Little Range School
Location: Northwest of Willow Hill
Known Teachers: Vera Mae Madden (1926)
Long Branch School
Location: 5 miles southwest of Newton
Known Teachers: Lizzie Hamilton Black (1896)
Mound School
Location: Northeast of Willow Hill and west of Mound cemetery
Known Teachers: Naomi (Stretcher) Isley (1905)
Mt. Olive School
Location: northwest of Newton
Known Teachers: Rube Foot (1909)
Mt. Zion School
Location: northeast of Lis
Known Teachers: Charley Kennedy (1904)
Myers School
Location: One mile north of Gila
Known Teachers: Dewey Raper (1918)
Newton Grade School
Location:
Known Teachers: Emma Trainor (1906); Emma Shup Wright (1906) Principal: Charles Bevis (1906) Elma Kibler (1906)
Oak Grove School
Location: 4 miles west of Newton
Known Teachers: John D. Davis (1912)
Oakland School
Location: four miles southwest of Bogota
Known Teachers: R.G. Chesnut (1896)
Onion Prairie School
Location:
Known Teachers: Lela Hamilton (1914)
Palmersburg School
Location:
Known Teachers: L.C. McCain (1909)
Pingtown School
Location: located east of Willow Hill
Known Teachers:
Marvin Harrison (1900-1901), Giles Francis (1900-1901), Maud Sibbett (1900-1901)
A.D. Bartley (1901-1902), Della Anderson (1901-1902)
A.D. Bartley (1902-1903) Maude Richardson (1902-1903)
Nancy Koons (1904/05), Daisy Norton (1904/05)
Fannie (Cahill) Ping (1906), Emily (Gustin) Flynn (1906)
Point Pleasant School
Location:
Known teachers: John Yelton (1911)
Pond Grove School
Location: 3½ miles south of Sainte Marie.
Known teachers: Bert Carpenter (1898)
Prairie School
Location:
Known teachers: Charles Shumard (1893/4)
Premium School
Location: Crooked Creek
Known teachers: Mat Martin (1892)
Reisner School
Location:
Known teachers: (Charles Price 1910-11)
Richards (aka Ganderneck) School
Location:
Known Teachers: Mrs. Nannie Trainor Tate (1898); Earl Heady (1909-10)
Rose Hill School
Location:
Known Teachers: Lloyd Flocken, principal (1930) Jessie Baker, teacher (1930)
Round Prairie School
Jasper County Public School # 119
It existed from about 1900 until 1944 or so.
Location: it was one mile, or close to it, directly east of Hickory School, in the North East Corner of Grandville
Township, and approximately one mile south of Clark County and one mile or so west of Crawford County.
Source of Data: Richard E. Myers, researcher
Sand Ridge School
- Located in Grandville Twp
Known Teachers: Noah Arthur Cramer (1909)
Sarvis Hill School
- Located 9 miles northwest of Newton
Known Teachers: Lizzie Shumard (1909)
Shiloh School District No. 1
- Located in Grove Twp
Known Teachers:
Springs School
- Located:
Known Teachers: Luther Wooden (1909); Tressa Laws Swisher (1930)
St. Peter School
- Location: Northwest corner of the St. Peter Cemetery Grounds
Known Teachers: Frank Long (1896); Ed Arnold (1898)
Swick School (Fairview)
- Location: North Crooked Creek township
Known Teachers: Sam Strader (1911); Ursel McKinley (1917)
Trexler School
- Location:
Known Teachers: Wayne French (1899/1900); Harry Jones (1912)
Union School (aka Cornbread)
- Located two miles south of Latona
Known Teachers: Semore Knepper (1899)
Vanderhoof School
- Location:
Known Teachers: May (Lafayette) Maxwell (1900-01)
Wakefield School
- Location: It was seven miles south of Newton on Buck Grove Road, or one mile east of Shamrock, and not in the
village of Wakefield as one might suppose.
Known Teachers: Lillie Lambird Klier (1910)
Water Oak School
- Location:
Known Teachers:
West Liberty School
- Location: 2 miles east of Hidalgo
Known Teachers: Harve Gross (1901), Walter Laus (1910) Gladys Letsinger (1915), Shirley Hall (1921)
Willow Hill Schools
- Location:
Known Teachers: Flossie Cramer, Zenith Kibler, Clinton James
Willow Hill No. 6 School
- Location: 2 miles north and one mile east of Willow Hill
Known Teachers: Ira Madden
Winterrowd School
- Location:
Known Teachers: T.L. McCorkle (1916)
Yale School
- Location:
Known Teachers: Luella Carr Blankenbaker (1925)
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