By Evelyn Haynes
Transcribed by Gwen Brewer McDaniel, January 19, 2000

There were three different locations of the Salem School. The first was about one miles west of present day Bloomburg and one half mile east of the present location of Salem church.

The second location was about one-fourth mile east of the site of the city dumping ground and one mile northwest of Bloomburg on a small plot of land belonging to W. B. Simmons, a pioneer Baptist minister.

The third location was where the Salem Church parsonage now stands.

These are the known teachers and students of the first Salem School: Teachers Frank Endsley, Jerome Bonoparte Haynes, John Alexander Haynes, J. S. Ambercrombie. Students Sarah Ellen and Annie Jones, Emma and Elizabeth Endsley, R. S. Hurt, Will and Sarah Easters, Tom and Dessa Richards, Dessa Clements, Mildred and Bud Vaughan, Ensy and Mattie McWilliams, Ada and Fannie Brown, Joe and Henry Jones, Luella Clements. There were others, but these were given us by their descendants or those who knew they were there.

On record, December 24, 1883, Deed Record – Cass County: Zedric C. Clements – 1 acre to County Judge for purpose of establishing a school (Richard Peters Survey).

Second Salem School: Teachers Jim Griffin, and L. Wommack (1898). Students Norman Simmons, Mattie, Morris, and Ollie Foster, Maude, Velma, Aubrey, and Mae Bentley, Frank, Marvin, and Clyde McKnight, Dick, O.O., and Lee Kennedy, Maggie, Oma, and Connie Easter.

The third school was started in the late 1890's. there were other teachers until the school consolidated with Bloomburg in 1933. Free text books were given from 1920.