Oak Grove School

Southern Weakley County, Tennessee


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This is Oak Grove School. It must be circa 1923. My mother was too young by about a year. Her older sisters and brothers are present. The names supplied are from my aunt Mildred Yeargin who (as best she could remember) is pictured second from top left....Jim Gossum

Top Row L to R: 
Miss Eva SWINDELL - teacher, Mildred YEARGIN ASHLEY, Lynn BOULTON, Margaret LeCORNU DORAN, Lula May DARNELL, ? Lila HIGGS WOMBLE, Pauline HUGGINS, Harry YEARGIN, unknown, Carmack DARNELL, Brooks LeCORNU, Cecil DARNELL, unknown, unknown, Houston SWINDELL - Teacher.

2nd Row down L to R: 
Amy YEARGIN, Alice HUGGINS, Valda HIGGS, Mozell LeCORNU, Elsie May SMITH COLLINS, Ruth LeCORNU HEATH, -  5 unknown boys - Fred LeCORNU, 3 unknown boys.

3rd Row L to R:
Ruby LeCORNU?, Ruth LeCORNU?, Elora & Viola HUGGINS (Twins), unknown, Mozilla HIGGS, 4 unknown boys, Lynn LeCORNU, 2 unknown boys.

Row 4 L to R:
Madeline YEARGIN, Leata HUGGINS, 4 unknown girls, Mattie SMITH?, Hattie SMITH?, 2 unknown girls, Minnie & Linnie CRAVEN, 3 unknown, Mary & Margaret DARNELL?, 3 unknown boys,

Leyland YEARGIN, Bennie YEARGIN, 2 unknown boys, Bryant JOHNSON, J. B. JOHNSON, 1 unknown boy, Monroe CRAVEN, 1 unknown boy.


Mt. Hermon Methodist Church or the "Catfight" area adjacent to the church.  - Mt. Hermon is located 5 or 6 miles NE of Greenfield on the Dresden Hwy., at the corner of Hearn Road. The land for the the church was given by my g grandfather, Chesley Mann Yeargin, (father of Thomas Patrick Yeargin). Many of my relatives are buried there. Down the Hearn Road and beyond where Chesley
Yeargin lived, was the Oak Grove School. My mother, as well as my aunts and uncles, went to school there. It was a two room school house going to the 9th grade as I understand. My mother, as well as some of her siblings, had to go to Greenfield to attend high school. It was too far to comute back and forth in those days and my grandfather, Thomas Patrick Yeargin, would cut and deliver firewood to people "in town" in exchange for room and board for his children to attend school at GHS.

Submitted by Jim Gossum
 

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