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LINCOLN SCHOOL No. 7
Jefferson Township, Ringgold County
Ringgold County Rural School Notes
From the Mount Ayr Record News, October 10, 1929
The following schools won certificates of award in the National Tuberculosis Association Modern Health Crusade work for the school year 1928-29:
Pleasant Valley, Monroe No. 7, Gladys FOLTZ, teacher; South Creek, Athens No. 2, Nita MOSBARGER, teacher; Woodbine, Lincoln No. 7, Helen SKARDA, teacher; Highland, Athens No. 5, Louise BASSETT, teacher; Crown Point, Rice No. 3, Ruth SCHLAPIA, teacher; Shady Grove, Lotts Creek No. 7, Elizabeth GERMAN, teacher.
Edgewood, Washington No. 6, Velma WIMER, teacher; and Flowery Glen, Liberty No. 9, Elsie KELLEY, teacher, won blue seals to be attached to the Certificates of Award which indicate second year health crusade work.
Schools winning prizes in the School News contest for the last year are as follows:
First, Lee, Riley No. 4 - Lena D. SAVILLE, teacher, nine months’ subscription to the Record-News. Second, Pleasant Valley, Poe No. 8 - Edith C. HUNTSMAN, teacher, six months’ subscription to the Record News. Third, Eureka, Liberty No. 8 - Naomi PRICE, teacher, one subscription to Current Events.
Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, February 26, 2015, Page 11
From "Snapshots of History" by Mike Avitt:
"When rural schoolhouses were first built in Ringgold County, they were built where the need was
the greatest. But eventually districts were formed and education became organized. It was decided to place a rural school every two miles
so a pupil would never have to walk more than a mile to school. My notes say
[July 1890. . . ] is the time frame when the schools were placed about every two miles. . . ."
Lincoln School No. 7 went by many names during its service to the community. In 1894, it was called The Woodbine School.
Later it was moved near the Harry GRACE farm and was named the Grace School. When members of the TAYLOR families attended
classes in the schoolhouse, it was called the Taylor School. Eventually it was called Lincoln School No. 7.
Lincoln No. 7 School, circa 1930's
BACK ROW, Left to Right: Cecil DILLENBURG, Vera CREVELING, Arlo DILLENBURG, teacher - Alice CARGILL, Floyd CREVELING,
Vic TOMAN
FRONT ROW, Left to Right: Edd TOMAN, Ted DILLENBURG, Willie McPHERSON, Claude DILLENBURG ~ ~ ~ ~
Mrs. Louise KESSLER was the teacher for the school year of 1954-55. ~ ~ ~ ~
Lincoln No. 7 School, 1956
BACK ROW, Left to Right: Shirley GOINS, Deanna TAYLOR, Judy TAYLOR, Roger REECE, Roma TAYLOR, Randall DAVENPORT, Dixie TAYLOR,
Judy HANSELL
FRONT ROW, Left to Right: Rex GOINS, Marion HANSELL, Marjeana REECE, Gary TAYLOR, Don GOINS
Mrs. Louise KESSLER taught at the Lincoln School during its last nine years. When the school closed in 1957, Mrs. KESSLER
and the students moved to the Diagonal School.
Lincoln School No. 7, year unknown
Top ROW, left to right: Jack TAYLOR, Karolyn DAVENPORT, Lyndon DAVENPORT, teacher - Louise KESSLER, Larry ARMSTRONG,
Clara ADKISSON, Dick TAYLOR
MIDDLE ROW, left to right: Roy BULLOCK, Mary CARSON, Eldon ADKISSON, Deanna TAYLOR, Randall DAVENPORT, Judy TAYLOR,
James FLEMING
BOTTOM ROW, left to right: Eddie BROWN, Roma Jean TAYLOR, Eldon CARSON, Janella TAYLOR, Larry BULLOCK, Colleen BULLOCK,
Eldon STRANGE
Lincoln No. 7 School
Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, February 26, 2015, Page 11
From "Snapshots of History" by Mike Avitt:
"As gravel roads and school buses made rural
schools obsolete, they were sold. . . .Jefferson Township schools No.
3 [Mortimer/Nulph School],
4 [Brush Center/Cornith School],
6 [Hiawatha School],
7 [Grace/Lincoln/Woodbine/Taylor School], and
8 [Cottonwood] were all sold September 26, 1955 at public auction."
SOURCE: Diagonal, Iowa: Centennial History p. 230. 1998.
Compilation by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2010; updated September of 2015
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