Information Sheet

 

 

R         Hogeye School (Lowndes, Mo.).

590                  Collection, 1947-1948.

                                    One folder, photocopies.

 

 

 

This collection consists of speeches and other historical information on the Hogeye School at Lowndes in Wayne County, Missouri.  The information was compiled by C. F. Hopkins and Mrs. Lillie Gray Shoemaker for presentation at school reunions in 1947 and 1948.

 

Hogeye School may have existed during the ante-bellum period at Stillhouse Hollow near Lowndes.  Following the war there were several schoolhouses at Hogeye serving the community at Lowndes and families along Bear Creek.  In 1902 the Hogeye School district was divided and a new school opened within the village of Lowndes.  Hogeye School continued in its original loca­tion until 1914, when it was moved to a new site in the Bear Creek valley.  It was consolidated with the school at Lowndes in 1922.

 

The material on Hogeye School comes from the papers of C. F. Hopkins, an alumnus of the school and a speaker at the 1947 reunion.  The information compiled for the reunions includes miscellaneous historical information on the area and the school, reminiscences of former stu­dents, and a list of teachers who served at the school from 1878 until its consolidation.  In 1947, the ma­terial on the school’s history to 1902 was compiled by C. F. Hopkins; Mrs. Lillie Gray Shoemaker compiled information on the history from 1902-1922.  C. F. Hopkins put together an­other address for the reunion in 1948, but was hospitalized before the event and did not attend the reunion.

 

 

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