Information Sheet

 

 

R         Benton County (Mo.).  School District No. 5.  Mora School.

254                  Records, 1870-1957.

                                    Twenty-two volumes.

 

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These are records of Mora School in northern Benton County, Missouri.  Included are the re­cords of the district clerk and attendance records kept by the teachers.

 

Mora School was located north of Cole Camp near the Pettis County line in Township 43 North, Range 21 West, in Benton County.  It was assigned district numbers 3 and 5, con­secu­tively.  The records fall into two groups: those kept by the district clerk, and the atten­dance rec­ords main­tained by the teachers.  Each volume contains several categories of re­cords, the quantity and qual­ity of which varied considerably with the inclinations and talents of the recorders.  Those main­tained by the district clerk include minutes of meetings of the school’s directors, financial state­ments, lists of taxpayers and students, and annual reports on the school district.  Attendance re­cords kept by the teachers include daily and term attendance totals, classification and standing of each student, reports on the condition of the school building and property, and registers of visi­tors to the school.

 

The records of the district clerks are complete for the period 1870-1957.  Attendance rec­ords are unavailable for the periods 1881-1886, 1918, and 1933-1952, but are otherwise com­plete.

 

 

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