Line
School
by
Homer Sharp
from
A
History of Coleman County and Its People, 1985
edited
by Judia and Ralph Terry, and Vena Bob Gates - used by permission
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Line School was begun sometime before 1911, and when I started to this
one-teacher school, with about twenty or thirty children, the double desks
were in two rows, boys on one side, girls on the other. With no state
furnished textbooks, the parents bought what they needed at Phillips Drugstore
in Santa Anna, and the books were carefully kept to hand down to younger
children. My first teacher was Miss Irma White, others were Leona
and Mabel Banister, Lula Ann Bruce, and Maud Laws. These young girls
lived in Santa Anna or Coleman, coming to Line on Monday morning and returning
home on Friday afternoon; there was no community gathering or church services.
W. P. Nuckolls and B. M. Kendrick were the trustees when Maud Laws taught
there in 1918. This school house was blown away by a storm in April
of 1928; the desks and other things in the building remained intact, but
the building was gone. The school was rebuilt. It was known
as District #57; was classed as dormant in 1949 and consolidated with Santa
Anna. (Note: At least one map has incorrectly labeled this school
Lyon.)
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