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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