Information Sheet

R Christian County (Mo.). School District No. 10 (Liberty School).

1005 Record book, 1896-1920.

One volume.

MICROFILM

This is the district clerk’s record book of Christian County School District No. 10 (originally District No. 1). The record book contains minutes of annual and special meetings of the district and meetings of the school board, ca. June 1896—5 October 1920, annual enumerations 1900-1918, and records of warrants issued.

Liberty School was located in southwestern Christian County in Townships 25 and 26 North, Range 21 West. Originally District No. 1, the district was renumbered as District No. 10 in about 1910.

The first twenty-six pages of the volume have been removed. The records begin ca. June 1896 with the fragmentary minutes concerning the selection of a school site on government land. There are no minutes from 4 April 1899—31 August 1901. Records of meetings continue through 5 October 1920. Among the concerns recorded in the minutes of meetings were the schoolhouse site (a question of the center or the corner of the district), specifications for new school buildings in 1903 (after a fire on 14 January), 1910, and 1914 (a concrete building), and hiring of teachers. The district ran out of money and closed the school in February 1914.

Among the chairmen of the school board were P. L. Comstock, J. W. Dye, Clarence M. Goodhue, Benjamin W. Goodhue, Rube Hammond, Frank T. Lidyard, Michael Loucks, R. L. Martin, Isaac. F. Pierce, Will Stoner, Joel Terry, and John Willhite. Serving as clerks were W. L. Atkinson, C. L. Carter, P. L. Comstock, W. H. Gibbs, Minnie Pierce, H. G. Walrath, and Alice Woolsey. Among the teachers at Liberty School were Edwin Belk, Mrs. Chenowith, W. V. Cooley, Bertha Dye, Bonnie Fox, Linda M. Gideon, Willie Kentling, G. R. Kessinger, Ruda G. Logan, S. R. Lawing, Rosa Smith, Walter Tessy, and Wiley Thornburg.

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