WEST POINT SCHOOL, NO. 44--1875--
WEST POINT SCHOOL, NO. 44,
southeast of Shive, was named for William Madison West, a
doctor and a farmer, who came to Hamilton
County in 1874. West Point is on FM 2414 about ten miles
south of Hamilton. In 1875 Joe H. Dixon , a school teacher, from
Alabama taught the
first school in the new West Point School which was located on the
site of the present day Chumney Dairy. Mr. Dixon arrived
with his family and with all of their worldly possessions in a covered
wagon at the farm of Henry Jones Carter (later know as the Jack
Stribling place) at Blue Ridge. Mr. Carter provided a
log cabin with a fire place for the Dixons. Mr. Dixon contracted to
teach the first school at West Point and walked eight and one half
miles every day to West Point to teach for two years.
Despite walking through torrents of rain and boot-deep snow, and sometimes
having to swim the raging Cowhouse Creek, Mr. Dixon was
never late for school.
There were nine grades in the West Point School in
1911. Geneva Sills was one of the teachers at West Point School
in 1912-1913. Trula Boyd taught school at West Point in
Hamilton County before she married Tom Bloodworth in 1913. Mary
Alice Shipp taught at West Point before 1919. H. Stanford, T. W. Conner, and
A. A. Morgan were on the West
Point School Board in 1924-25 when the faculty was Otis Carlton
and Miss Ava Neal. In 1936 I. M. West was principal of this
school and Mrs. Etta Lovelace was a teacher. James Elber Sills
taught in the West Point School.
WEST
POINT SCHOOL PICTURE, abt. 1911-1912
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West Point School
Hamilton County, TX
Courtesy: Tina Bartek, Ft. Worth, TX Posted:
22 July 1999
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Tina Bartek was able to identify only a few
persons in this picture. Can you ID any others?
Pauline Atchley is standing (Row
2, 6th from Left) in front of the man teacher, she has the
dark bangs. She later married Don Putnam. Also on the second
row from the bottom is my mother, Evelyn
Mason, with the E on her
chest. Mildred Mason is just to
the right (the TEACHER'S right, our left) of the woman
teacher. Clyde Mason is on the
back row , face torn off, 2nd from the right. The Mason kids
were children of Robert and Grace Putnam Mason of Fairview |
WEST
POINT, 1936
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