Virtual Tour Lower Fox Creek Teachers

Lower Fox Creek School picnic with students and parents.

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Students and Parents

Generally children walked no more than 1 to 2 miles one way to school. Roughly each square mile there was a portion of land set aside for a schoolhouse, but final school placement was determined based on the amount of students within the surrounding area that it would serve. Mr. Jones donated land for the placement of the Lower Fox Creek School with the stipulation it would revert to the landowner if the school ever closed.

Nineteen students of the Lower Fox Creek School and their parents are pictured. Included are the Ericksons, Adkins, and Brouse families. This photograph was taken between 1916-1919.

Ann Adkins is the girl in the front row on the far left with the "skirt being pulled by little sister Josephine. Walter [Adkins] is the brother holding the greyhound dogs." Oral history quote from Ann Adkins Kern.

The Teachers of the Lower Fox Creek School

(Information from the Chase County Register of Deeds)

Year Taught	Name of Teacher	Salary& Students
1884	Dora Peer	$35.00 per month
1885	Roy Hacket
1886	Mrs. Gus Walsh
1887	Minnie Ford
1888	Ada Baker
1889	Maude Johnston
1890-91	Hattie Jeffrey	$35 per month - 19 students ages 5-20 taught 28 weeks
1891	Carrie Breese
1892	Iva Jackson
1893	Effie Thomas
1894	Nellie Sanders
1895	Amie Daugherty
1896	David Wood
1899-1900	Heffie Chensey
1901-1903	Mattie Daugherty
1902	Adah Hunt
1904	Eulah Finley
1905	Carrie Noyes
1906	Alda Crawford
1907	H.A. Rose
1908	Rose Kramer
1909	Etta Anderson
1910	Mable Armour
1911-1914	Nellie Robert	$40 per month in 1914
1911-1915	Elaine Johnson
1916	Bessie Lewis	9 students ages 8 - 19
1917	Gladys Rockwell
1918-20	Emogene Humphrey	7 students, ages 5,6,7,10,11,and 14 - taught 32 weeks
1921-22	Ruby Hacker	9 students, ages 6,8, 9,11,12,and 13 - taught 32 weeks
1923	Mrs. Gertrude Bacon
1924	Mary Glanville	19 students ages 5-20 - taught 28 weeks
1925	Clara Winsor
1926	Grace Gardner	$80.50 salary, 3 students ages 6, 11, and 13 for 32 weeks.
1928		Six students sent to Cottonwood Falls for school
1929	Marguerite Erickson	$80.00 per month in 1929

 

Ann and Josephine Adkins attended this school from 1916 - 1924.

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Pictured are two former Lower Fox Creek School students. Ann Adkins and on the right is her younger sister, Josephine, attended this school from 1916 - 1924. What Ann and Josephine remember most about their school days was the strict discipline. There was no giggling, whispering, or talking out loud unless the teacher spoke to you. They also remember the school yard catching on fire one year. The students formed a bucket brigade from the cistern to the fire and managed to save the school.

 

Grace Garner taught at the Lower Fox Creek School in 1926.

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Grace Garner taught at the Lower Fox Creek School in 1926. She had only three students; Verna Gordon - age 13, Doris Erickson - age 11, and Bernice Erickson - age 6 years.

 

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