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Bettina Pearson Higdon Burns - Ch 1

Bettina Pearson came to Cullman County from her graduation at Alabama College in 1941 to teach math at West Point. In those days, teachers taught whatever needed to be taught. She also taught typing, which she had for six weeks in college; history, which was not her favorite subject; algebra, business math and 7th, 8th and 9th grade math. She had a 9th grade homeroom and 7 periods with about 260 students a day.

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Grandmas Washing Day

By: Lois Monroe

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Little One-Room School Chapter 2

by Chester Belcher, Memories Of Shirley Speedy Shields

Memories of those two and one-half years I spent as a pupil at the Mifflin, Indiana, one-room school are sketchy, yet some memories remain of both school days and the setting.

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The Color of Dreams on Canvas

Cliff in his Navy uniform at the age of 17.

By Zelpha Williams-Smith

There has never been anything ordinary about Cliff Smith. When he was born on January 18, 1927, he weighed in at fifteen pounds, three ounces, and to this day continues to do everything in his own unusual and unique way.

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The Horse and Buggy Days

1922 photograph of Anna Cahoon nee Hasenmyer, Carrie Smith nee Hasenmyer, Amelia Hasenmyer nee Kebortz, Amelia Wetherill nee Hasenmyer, Ida Parker nee Hasenmyer and Helen Held nee Parker.

by Helen Held nee Parker and Franklin T. Wike, Jr.

Helen Held nee Parker is in her late 80s. The photograph above shows her standing beside her mother, three of her mothers sisters and Helen’s grandmother, Amelia Hasenmyer nee Kebortz. This photograph was taken around 1921 or 1922 at her grandmother’s house.

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Little One-Room School

You could tell that my one-room school was a backward school the first time you saw it. The back of the school was turned toward the road. The road used to be on the side of the school between the school and the creek. This gave us a little more playground. Crawford County has the lowest value land in the state of Indiana, but the trustee had the school built on less than one acre.

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A HEART OF GOLD

Jab Mayfield. It was taken the year she got married.

By: Joe MayfieldAll rights reserved

Her shoe size was 31/2, she was 5 ft. 4 in. tall, always a petite woman, her voice soft, but her heart was bigger than the sky, yet full of gold. Born November 28th, 1914, to W. W. Dowda (12/19/1898) and Pearl Ballard Dowda (10/4/1892) she enjoyed a full life, spending her 77 years as a protective sister to two younger brothers, a wife and partner to her husband for 55 years, and a wonderful mother for 46 years.

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Still Tied to the Apron Strings

Dartha Peppers Williams

1882 to 1972 Paternal Grandmother

of Sandy Williams Driver

By: Sandy Williams Driver

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Trip to Grandma’s – The Whippet

“Grandma’s”

Left to Right, Top to Bottom:

Frances Hinkelbein Batho, Jane Crouch, Bob Thayer, Jim Thayer, May Crouch, Gertrude Batho, Grandma Hinkelbein, Edna Thayer, and Ray Thayer.

As Told by Frances Hinkelbein Batho Seiley

to Kathryn Seiley

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What Are You Waiting For?

This was written by an 83-year-old. The last line says it all.

I’m reading more and dusting less.

I’m sitting in the yard and admiring the view without fussing about the weeds in the garden.

I’m spending more time with my family and friends and less time working. Whenever possible, life should be a pattern of experiences to savor, not to endure.

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