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By: Jim Fitzpatrick |
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Email: jim@nunica.com |
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Local Farmer in Polkton Township writes for the Coopersville Observer. |
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Along Brandy Creek By Jim Fitzpatrick
The Coopersville Observer November 16, 2015 - - No. 135 |
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Fanny M. Wilson her middle name was Mary first teacher at South Evergreen a one room country school over by the river District No. 7
In those years after the great Civil War families needed a place of learning for all their growing children and they would need a teacher along that road by the Grand
Four pioneering families on that trail through the wilderness built a small one room schoolhouse Smith, Potts, Rice, and Severence family names still remembered there
One hundred forty years in passing since Fanny Wilson first opened that front door her legacy continued til schooling in "one rooms" was no more
South Evergreen still stands under ancient oaks, pines and maples its doors to learning closed forever going on fifty years and more
Some folks lately bought the place fixed up the roof and belfry too a new coat of paint on the school and woodshed both restoration back to schooldays of old is what they want there is a sense that Fanny Wilson may have something to do with this |
