STUDENTS IN MONTICELLO DISTRICT SCHOOL PICTURE IDENTIFIED

STUDENTS IN MONTICELLO DISTRICT SCHOOL PICTURE IDENTIFIED

By John Harvey

The students in the picture carried in "Reflections" on January 27 have all been identified.

There were a number of calls identifying one or two students, but no one was able to identify all of them. Then Mrs. Homer A. (Miss Anna) Jordan stopped me in the grocery store and said, 'I'm in the picture in last week's paper and I put a list identifying all of them in the mail for you this morning." The letter came the next day, with some additional information about the two classes picture.

Miss Anna says that the picture is of the fourth and fifth grades. (We had said third and fourth). There were only ten grades in the school when the picture was made. She said: "We were the last two grades to attend school in the old building before it was torn down to build the building now located on the site. The next year the students went to school in the Courthouse, churches, and the Florence House. The building was torn down the next year."

She sets the year that the building was torn down as 1919. Our date for completion of the new building was based on the dedication program in May, 1924. That program, which a number of people still have, was headed "Monticello and Jasper County, 1800-1924".

The class members as given by Mrs. Jordan are:

Front row: Gertie Huff, Mary King Knight, Annie Lizzie Powell, Rosa Malone, Albert Talmadge, Annie Florence, Hattie Kelly, Dorothy Penn, Lilliones Malone.

Second row: Roy Jacobson, Carl Hatfield, Leon Malone, Causie White, Oscar Roberts, Linton Thomason, Powell Goolsby, Hubert Newton R. D. Campbell

Third row: Eva Blackwell, Audrey Leverette, Sallie V. Lane, Irene Alexander, Miss Bessie Banks, Mary Henderson, Walker Flournoy, Catherine Lane, George Harvey, Florence Holland.

Fourth row: Sara Goolsby, Ruby Malone, Myrtle Greer, Lillie Funderburk, Imogene Piper, Myrtice Hardy, Jewel McMichael, Gladys Jordan, Loy Hardy, Susie Holland, Elizabeth Atkinson, Lilla Malone, Carter Stinson, Rogers Downs.

Back Row: Myrtice Goodman, Ruby Bearden, Ruth Campbell, Mary Lorene Malone and Mary Em Florence.

Oh Yes! Miss Anna is the third from the end of the back row.

Additional Comments:
Transcribed by Suzanne Forte (suzanneforte@bellsouth.net) April 2005, from copies of articles contained in the Monticello News. There articles were prepared by Mr.
John Harvey and published in this newspaper during the 1970's and 1980's time frame. Some were under the title "Jasper Reflections", others "Bicentennial Bits".
Permission has been granted by Mr. Harvey for use of these very valuable and informative articles.

Copies of articles provided by Benny Hawthorne.