Snow Hill AME Church and Parker Hill Elementary School
Roy Roulhac, President of the Gilmore Academy-JCTS Alumni Association
1 Jan 1999 e-mail
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New Jackson County Book From: [email protected] (Roy Roulhac)
The Gilmore Academy-Jackson County Training School Alumni Ass'n, Inc.,
Jackson County, FL, 1999, soft cover, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 128 pages,
219 The book douments the lives of African Americans in Jackson County from the antebellum period through the difficult and violent Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras to the increasing tolerance of the last century. Jackson County, FL tells the singular story of this proud community's struggles and successes. |
An oral interview with my uncle, Odis Gibson (1917- ), a life long resident of the McChapel Settlement, Malone precinct , disclosed that Snow Hill A.M.E. Church was recently pastored by Rev. R. E. Hudson, the current pastor of McChapel AME on Old US Road. The cemetery is on the church ground. He says the church is located to the northeast of Malone on property formerly owed by Tim Herring.
Uncle Odis also told me about his early education at Parker Hill Elementary School, on the Ed Moses Settlement. When he started school in 1924, his brother, the late Reuben B. Gibson, was the principal who travelled to school on a horse. At the time, their parents, Noah Gibson and Estella Gibson, were growning tobacco on the Taylor Place as sharecroppers.
His classmates at the Parker Hill Elementary School included:
Otis Glenn, Limus Rivers, Rayfield Smith, Judge Hayes, Mabel hayes, Lillian
Hayes, Ida Mae Smith, Jess Bea _____, and Sallie Blanks.
In about 1925, Uncle Odis went to Union Grove. The principal was Hansen Rufus. Teachers included: Eldorado Long, Josephine Wood, Essie Duncan, and Ms. Queen _____. Professor Dickens was the principal at Bunkhorn in 1928. In 1932, he was in the eight grade at McChapel School and living at Stevens Quarters on the Glover Place. Teachers at McChapel included a Mr. Gibson, R.N. Pierce, and Mr. Nix.
First School for Blacks in Jackson County
From: [email protected] (roy
roulhac)
Looking for information on the first school for blacks which was established in Marianna in 1865 by two Union soldiers, a Sgt Smith and Pvt Davenport.
I am president of the Gilmore Academy-JCTS Alumni Association and we are gathering information for a visual history publication about the presence of Blacks in Jackson County. Photos and information about schools, churches, business, social life, etc, would be appreciated. Roy Roulhac
Subj: Schools for Blacks in Jackson County
Date: 12/27/98
From: [email protected]
According to Bob Hagler, a Malone Native and whose family formerly lived in the area. The first small school for blacks in NE part of county was called Snow Hill.
The land was donated by the father of John W McAnulty for whom McAnulty Road off Hwy 2 from Malone is named. Mr John W McAnulty was one of the founders of the Malone Methodist Church. The McAnulty farm was located where the road now runs and that land is now owned by Tim Herring. Snow Hill was on road now named Snow Hill Road on Jackson County Map. Believe that the land was donated by Francis A McAnulty, born 1840. His father, born 1809 in SC, was Nathan McAnulty, who came early to Jackson County.
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