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Volume 12 , Issue 26

2010

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This NW Okie and others have noticed that no one looks happy in this 1904-1905 Liberty 35 School, in Woods (M) county, in northwest Oklahoma photo on the left. Do they look mad to you? Even the Teacher, Constance Estella Warwick? Wonder what the deal was? Bad Day? Hard times? Anyway, look for this photo in the 2010 Freedom Rodeo Program later this Summer!

I have been told that the handwriting on the back looks like our grandma's handwriting. Did grandma have a system for writing down the names listed on the back? Did she just start writing down the names from left to right, as she remembered them? Did she list everyone in photo? NOT! Four more students than we have names!

Here are the names as listed on backside of the 1904-05 photo of Liberty 35 School. If you can help us established an order to how the names were listed or recognize any of the 1904-05 Liberty 35 School students as your grandparents or relatives, let us know which one they are in the photo so we can tag them correctly. We have also put the same photo on our Facebook - NW Okie site under "my photos - Camera Vault Photos" for those networking with Facebook. Check it out and help us tag your grandparent or relative in the photo. We have also noticed counting the faces in photo and the names on the back, that we are short about 4 names not listed at all.

Here is the List that we have so far:
Joseph Endicott,
Earl Benningfield
Clarance Endicott
Ernie Benninfield
Ada Graham (Murrow)
Gertrude Douglas (Porter)
Olive Fugit
Lonnie Fugit
Roy Snyder
Jessie Kuiech (Mrs. Roy Snyder)
Erma Benningfield (Mrs. Lancaster)
Sylvia Fugit
Elsie Snyder (Mrs. Orval Brown)
Lula Snyder (Mrs. McDaniel)
Mable Fugit (Mrs. Will Ross)
Lizzie Snyder
Millie Wright (Mrs. Wise)
Nora Aviatt
Bessie Wright
Ethel Benningfield
Clara Wise
Constance "Connie" Estella Warwick (married Wm. J. McGill), Teacher.

As to one-room schoolhouse teachers, Jerry mentioned, "Linda, you are right about the teachers not being married. My Mother had to stop teaching when my folks got married."

Rod recognized a relative in the photo and says, "Ada Graham married Frank Murrow. Frank's siblings were Luther (my grandfather), Lionel, Clay, and Blanche (married Walt Bergersen). Two other siblings died in infancy, a sister Gladys Bula and a brother William Ora Leonard."

Dale says, "BEAUTIFUL picture! You and others should post more of them for Identifications. Notice the little boy in the front row with his lunch bucket. It must be full of good stuff because he doesn't want to let go of it, even for a picture. What is the little tie thing around the shoulder of our little lunch pail boy? Maybe that morning he had to both dress himself and fix lunch for school."

As to the little boy with the tie thing around his shoulder, this NW Okie asks, "Is it a strap of a school bag hanging over the little boys shoulder?"
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