Without the help of Jay Booth and Roscoe Sears this study could not have been completed. Jay was the typist and helped in organizing and proofreading the material, as well as researching the Franklin District. Harold Dombrowski has done a terrific job reproducing dozens of pictures from old faded prints and newspaper pictures. Other acknowledgments and picture credits are found elsewhere in this book. We make no claim that we have found all of the schools, churches, and cemeteries.
Inaccuracies are due to the inability to fully document.
This is a summation of research and the contributions of many people. It is our hope that it will be accepted as such.