Jackson School History

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="038c8283.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#336633" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Jackson School History<B>   </B></FONT><A HREF="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org/"><U><B>home</B></U></A><A HREF="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org/"><U><B> </B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jackson"><U><B>Jackson School</B></U></A></div> <div> Jackson school was located north of the Carterville Cemetery near the corner of Hawthorne Road</div> <div> and North Pine.  The ground for the school was donated by John Andrew and Sarah Jane (Freeze) Jackson.  </div> <div> The building consisted of one room.   In 1914 the area children were sent to the new school located at Lakeside.</div> <bR> <div> Sarah Jackson gave a corner from her forty-acres so the Jackson schoolhouse could be moved across the road</div> <div> and used for Sunday school.  It was sometimes called the Jackson school and sometimes the Free-Will Baptist</div> <div> Church.  </div> <bR> <div> This building was later moved to Carterville, Missouri.</div> <bR> <div> Many thanks to Phyllis Close, Mary Lewis and John Jackson for providing information on the Jackson School.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="088300e0.gif" border=0 width="560" height="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> August 25, 1911--News of Webb City</div> <div> Elijah Wilmoth's funeral held at the Jackson school house.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="088300e0.gif" border=0 width="560" height="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Jackson District Votes to Establish Lakeside School</div> <bR> <div> To Abandon Old Building Near Carterville</div> <bR> <div> Modern Two-Room Structure Will Result From Fight That Covered Seven Years</div> <bR> <div> After an almost continuous agitation for seven years, the Jackson school building, situated about a mile north of</div> <div> Carterville, will be abandoned and a new one built at Lakeside.</div> <bR> <div> This action was decided in a district election, held at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon.  Fifty-five votes for the change </div> <div> were cast to fifteen against.  Although yesterday was the first time the question has been put directly to a ballot,</div> <div> many "straw votes" have been cast, each time apparently being against the change.</div> <bR> <div> At times the fight between the two factions grew bitter, the change being opposed principally by those families of</div> <div> the district who live farther from Lakeside than where the school now stands.  Six months ago a comittee, consisting</div> <div> of S. W. Sours, N. J. Osborn and J. M. Carter, was appointed to canvass the district thoroughly to determine whether</div> <div> the majority favored a change.  The election followed.</div> <bR> <div> A modern two-room structure, probably of brick, will be erected on the farm of Mrs. J. B. Thomas at Lakeside to</div> <div> replace the old one-room affair now being used as a school.  It is expected that the new school will be ready for</div> <div> occupancy when the next term begins in September.  J. M. Carter and Edward Jackson are president and clerk</div> <div> respectively of the board of education.</div> <bR> <div> As the Jackson school district is about three miles long, the situation of the present building compelled some</div> <div> pupils to go as far as two and a half miles.  Lakeside, it is said, it more centrally situated.</div> <bR> <div> About fifteen employees of the Southwest Missouri Railroad Company, who live in the district, were given a portion</div> <div> of the afternoon off yesterday in order to cast their ballots in the school election.</div> <bR> <div> <I>The Joplin Daily Globe</I>, March 11, 1914.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="088300e0.gif" border=0 width="560" height="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Old Jackson School House to Be Church</div> <bR> <div> Is Moved From Site Where It Was Erected Twenty-five Years Ago</div> <bR> <div> The Jackson school house, which for twenty-five years has beena Carterville landmark, is being moved about a</div> <div> half mile east of the present location, on a portion of the old Jackson farm.  About twenty-five years ago the</div> <div> Jackson school house was built and many of the citizens of Carterville played "dugies" and "town ball" around the</div> <div> old building and then went inside when the bell rang, to investigate the wonderful mysteries of "jogerfy."</div> <bR> <div> The new school house, which was built at Lakeside, is large enough to accommodate all the pupils.  The old</div> <div> building will be used as a church.  The site was purchased by Dr. Clark and will be improved for a country home.</div> <bR> <div> <I>The Joplin News Herald</I>, October 9, 1914.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="088300e0.gif" border=0 width="560" height="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Excerpts from the Margaret Schachterle Family Genealogy</div> <bR> <div> I Remember </div> <div> by Ruby Gibbons, November 1977</div> <bR> <div> Some things about my early school days I can recall.  I think Mary Engle was my first and second grade teacher.</div> <div> She boarded at our house and taught in the little one room school house that stood about 1/2 quarter mile west of</div> <div> home.  Mable Terry was the next teacher.  She lived in Carterville and drove a horse and buggy back and forth.  She </div> <div> was the teacher that taught us to sing "O Christmas Tree" in German.  </div> <bR> <div> We children were always glad on rainy days for then Dad would bring our lunch to school for us.  All other days we</div> <div> ran home for lunch.  My fourth grade teacher was Ethel Farmer Breeden.  She and her mother stayed at the Breeden</div> <div> home which was about one-quarter mile east of our home.</div> <bR> <div> One day I was in a rush to get back to school and started to run when a neighbor, driving by in a buggy, asked me if </div> <div> I'd like to ride.  I said, "No, thank you, I'm in a hurry."  This one I'll never live down.</div> <bR> <div> There was a little, white schoolhouse about a quarter of a mile west which sat across the road the the home place.</div> <div> The older children went to grade school there, Ruby being in the 4th grade when a new school was built at Lakeside.</div> <bR> <div> After the fourth grade our school was moved one and a half miles east, a new building with two rooms, Lakeside school,</div> <div> Mineral Township.  Room 1 was 1st through 5th grades.  Room 2 was 5th through 8th grades.  My!  I felt grown up when</div> <div> I started int he new school in Room 2 with all the big kids.  I finished 8th grade at Lakeside school and really wanted to go</div> <div> to high school so much, but it didn't work out that way.</div> <bR> <div> When the little one-room school house was no longer used for school, the Free Will Baptist people in the community </div> <div> bought the building and Grandma (Jackson) gave one acre of ground and the building was moved on across the road</div> <div> and was known as the Free Will Baptist Church.  All of my growning up years we went to this church for Sunday school</div> <div> and preaching.  </div> <bR> <div> After Cecil and I were married and lived in Carterville, the little church building was moved to Carterville.  I began going</div> <div> to Sunday school again in the little church of my childhood.  During a revival in 1927 in the little church, I received Christ</div> <div> into my live and He became my Lord and Savior.  </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="088300e0.gif" border=0 width="560" height="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> The Webb City R-7 School Board authorized Supt. Lawrence Miner to grant a quit-claim title to the Carterville Cemetery</div> <div> Association for a five-acre cemetery tract that was deeded to the old Jackson School District in 1873.</div> <bR> <div> <I>The Carthage Press</I>, July 12, 1972, page 15.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>