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Oak Grove School was the first school where my Aunt Gladys Hassell taught. The year was 1917. There are some names on the back of the picture but not a complete list.
The names are:
Lucile Whitby
Irene Burks
Mamie Hay
Thelma Dunavant
Mabel Tilghman
Betty Lou Byasee [Byassee]
Estelle Dunavant
Rupert Dunavant
Clarence Morton
J C Whitby
Lois Whitby
Howard Hay
Vera Moss
Carlos Byasee [Sherwood "Carlos" Byassee]
Willie Burks
Irby McCaleb
Gertrude Burks
Georgia Hayes
Cleo Tilghman
Irene Tilghman
School Principal was Miss Jennie Vernon. Aunt Gladys is in the middle of the third row with the dark dress and white blouse.
In a book she kept the names of the students in each of the schools where she taught. Besides the names listed above the following names were listed as students at Oak Grove for the 1917-1918 school year:
J C McIlwain
Howard Hopkins
Lois McIlwain
Aubry Morton
Cecil Green
Marion Sebern Scott
Felix Butler
Fount Butler
Clarence Harbor
Carlton Morton
Bertie Mae Butler
L V Butler
Lucile Ottinger
Orto Kile Byasee [Otha Carl Byassee]
Collie Bayse [Byassee]
Mary Cummings
Tollie Echols
Raymond Fitzgerald
Evie Butler
Melvyn Townsend
Ester Bruer
Theo Sanders
Herbert Wagner
Sylvia Smell
Harry Wagner
Tommy Ottinger
Sarah Cummings
Odell King
DeWitt King
Quincy King
Mattie Clyde Authur
All names are spelled as she spelled them in her book. I hope that someone will be able to sort out who is who in the picture.
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