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HISTORY OF MURRILL SCHOOL HOUSE
(As Published in 1913 BTHS Diamond Drill Yearbook)
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About forty-four years ago Messrs. Thomas Murrill, Acy Jackson, George Dogget, John Day, Joseph Coleman, John Delona, King Williams, James Williams, George Crump, Isaac Crump, Edmund Crump, William Murrill and Briggs Murrill, neighbors living southwest of Bonne Terre, worked together and built the Murrill School House.
This was the first school house ever built in the vicinity and so was a cause for rejoicing. Consequently the women of the neighborhood worked together and gave a basket dinner celebrating the completion of the school. The women who gave the dinner were Mesdames: George, Isaac and Edmund Crump, Martha Jackson, Fannie Jackson, Mary Ann Williams, Pomelia Williams, Rachael Murrill, Mary Day, Lutetia Delona, Frances Coleman and Jennette Murrill, who were the wives of the men who built the school.
The first teacher was Mrs. AuBuchon affectionately called Grandmother AuBuchon.
School is still taught at Murrill School and, little log house though it is, it has educated some men that Bonne Terre is proud to own as among her best citizens.
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[Published in Lead Belt News, Flat River, Missouri, Friday, July 2, 1943]
DESLOGE AND MURRILL SCHOOL DISTRICTS MERGE
Prince Progress is still in the saddle and militant. The rich Murrill district on last Saturday voted almost unanimously to annex to the Desloge district. The County Superintendent feels that this step will result to the mutual advantage of both districts. It will add about $300,000 to the assessed valuation of Desloge and place the Murrill school under close and effective city supervision. The consolidation of the Desloge and Murrill districts is the biggest thing that has happened in educational circles in this county for several years.
Names in above photo listed to facilitate search engine hits: Harvey Lovvorn [Lovvern], Luther Farley, Allen Kindle, Abbie Farley Yates, Betty Sago, Jennie Sago, Ada Kindle, Lillie Williams Permont, Jeff Delona [Deloney], Minnie Delona [Deloney] Hutchings, Hattie Williams Richardson, Annie Williams Gann, Mattie Williams Craig, Kate Dace, Betty Williams Pettus, Ollie Wigger, George Christopher, Willie Sago, Fred Murrill, Mattie Elders Strickland, Emma Delona Hutchins [Hutchings], Jennie Hunt Hopkins, Annie Keay Penberthy, Mary Hunt Long, Abbie Elders Arenz, Bert Wigger, C. C. Wilson
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