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1896 photo of the teacher and students at Beach Hill School, Bedford County, TN
Posted by: Leah Pearson (ID *****8887) Date: January 03, 2009 at 15:34:24
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On my family web site you can view a photograph taken in 1896 of the teacher and students at Beach Hill School, Bedford County, Tennessee:

http://www.familytreeheritagelibrary.com/photographs/photo1116.html

Beech Hill School was located on Anthony Branch Road on a prominent hill. (The property is now owned by Jay Brinkley.) The land was originally donated by Haskel Shofner for the school. It would serve the community between Thompson Creek and Willow Grove School on Shipman’s Creek.

Miss Gertie Ferguson was the teacher.

The names of the students are:

Roy Edwin Roberts
Harlan Anthony
Howard Shofner
Alvin Riddle
Willie J. Shofner
Morris Anthony
Burtis Shofner
Claude D. Roberts
Ara Cates Clahoun
Rosie Prince
______ Anthony
Lillie Shofner Kellar
Maggie Shofner Cawthron
Fannie Shofner Bramlett
Ezra Riddle
Ernest Shofner
Roy Shofner

Please contact me if your related and/or have information on Roy Edwin Roberts and Claude D. Roberts. Thanks!

Leah (Pearson) Reich
Email: geofiles@aol.com
My family web site: http://www.familytreeheritagelibrary.com


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