Information Sheet

 

 

R         Ohler, Jettie Ferguson, 1881-1966.

751                  Pleasant Valley School collection, n.d.

                                    One folder, photocopies.

 

 

 

This is a history of Pleasant Valley School in Marion Township, Jasper County, Missouri.  Jettie Ohler was a teacher at the school, and longtime secretary of the Pleasant Valley Homecom­ing Organization.  Her notes on that organization, 1930-1957, are included.

 

Pleasant Valley School district was organized in 1868.  The first school building, 1868-1896, also served as a community center and church.  The district was reorganized in 1878, whereupon Pleasant Valley became Jasper County School District No. 2.  The old school was replaced by a new building constructed on a new site in 1896.

 

In 1930, alumni formed the Pleasant Valley Homecoming Organization.  Its annual meetings featured basket dinners, musical performances, patriotic or spiritual readings, memorials, and reminiscences.   Jettie Ohler, a former teacher, was elected secretary and served in that capacity for over twenty years.

 

In 1945, Armina Bean Galligan and Mary Bean Maxwell were appointed to gather informa­tion on the history of the school.  Their history and Jettie Ohler’s notes as secretary of the Pleasant Valley Homecoming Organization, 1930-1957, comprise the collection.    The notes were tran­scribed and an index compiled by M. Short.

 

 

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