TAYLOR SCHOOL (CIRCA ABT. 1898)

A number of local citizens will be found in the photograph above, however, friends may not be able to identify them because the picture was made about 45 years ago.

The group shows the pupils of the Taylor School, located near Three Rivers when James Ballard was the teacher.

First row:  Hattie Sullivan McClintock, Farmington; Lula Sullivan; Stella Davis; Ella Straughn; Bessie Cunningham, Flat River; Louie Yearger [Yeager], Rt. No. 3, Farmington; Becky Cunningham - Byington, Farmington; Ella Cunningham; Cora Davis; Cleve Davis, Flat River; (Ella Davis) Mrs. Eli Vansickle, Cantwell; (Stella Cunningham) Mrs. John Pridemore, Silver Lake, Mo. (deceased).

Second row:  (Bertha Yearger) Mrs. Barney Casteel, Farmington; James Ballard, teacher, Libertyville; Kenneth Miller (deceased); Ode Williams, Flat River; Frank Edwards, Farmington.

Third row:  Blanche Cunningham (deceased); (Reva Edwards) Mrs. Ernest McCormick, Flat River; Maude Cunningham - Massey, Flat River; (Lell Swearingam) Mrs. F. M. Horton, Flat River; Mollie Meyer, Farmington; (Maggie Horton) Mrs. Willard Yearger, Farmington; (Bell Williams) Mrs. Frank Griffin, Farmington.

Fourth row:  Marvin Young, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Leslie Dooley, (deceased); Dr. Linn Horton, Farmington; Joseph Dooley (deceased); Russell Ryan, Farmington; John Dooley; John Horton, St. Louis; Daisy Orten (deceased); Larry Sullivan, Farmington.

Fifth row:  Clara Krazer; Mattie Murphy, Farmington; (Sally Pearman) Mrs. Robert Smart, Detroit; (Carrie Yearger) Mrs. Phil Idemann, Ste. Genevieve; Frank Robbs (deceased); Willard Yearger, Farmington; James Edwards, Farmington; Kenneth Dooley; Charles Ryan, Farmington; Zeno Swearingam (deceased). 

TAYLOR SCHOOL (CIRCA 1906)

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS ago these October 1906 pupils posed for their picture beside the old Taylor School, northeast of Farmington, in Ste. Genevieve County.  The picture was provided by Mrs. Nan Edwards Yeates, 206 West Harrison, one of 12 of the 40 pupils she has identified as still living.  The late Elbert J. Hunt, 84, of 405 North Franklin, who passed away on Jan. 4, 1977, is the boy standing beside the teacher, Marion E. Rhodes, at the far right.

THOSE LIVING in front row -- second, third and fourth from left are Richard Edwards, William Weeke, Gus Weeke.  Second row from front -- second from left, Clifford Edwards; second and third from right, Nan Edwards Yeates and Lois Cunningham Dennison.  Third row from front -- third from left, Minnie O'Sullivan; fifth from left, Jessie Edwards Benedict; second from right, Sallie Yeager McCormick; fourth from right, Marie Thompson Valle.  Back row -- fourth from left, Walter Hoy; second from right, Kennett Yeager.  Hoy's deceased brother, Harvey, is the first from the left in the back row; their late brother Jeffrey Hoy, is the seventh from left sitting in the second row.

MANY BOYS wore hats, some caps. Long black stockings and high shoes were worn by both boys and girls.  Short pants were worn by all young boys.  The school was just east of the Turley Mill Road and stood at the bend of what is now Hopkins Road, north of the Missouri-Illinois Railroad tracks.