The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-23
A SCHOOL 50 YEARS AGO.
The Names Of the Boys and Girls Who
.a Attended. Few are Left. l wa
ANDREW IRWIN WELDED THE BIRCH.
One Of the Schoolhouses Stood In the Re.
formed Graveyard, and the other. In
the Presbyterian. Suggestiyei

on the arrival of the eastern mail,
the conversation of Davy Glllis
and George Greathead trended
along the line of the educational
facilities of to day-the com mo-
dious school buildings, the mod
ern appliances, the advance in the
text books, the fat salaries, and
the still fatter teachers-all this
led their minds back to the sum.
mer of 1S44-tifty nine years ago,
when they were students in Andy
Irwin's summer schools in this
town.
The building in which the term
before harvest, that year, was
taught stood IN the corner of what
is now the Reformed graveyard
just across the alley from the
house in which Mrs. Margaret
Henry lives, and after harvest
the school was held in a two-story
stone school house that stood IN
what is now the back part of the
Presby terian graveyard the play
ground extending out to the
street between the residence of
James Rummell and the Presby-
terian church. OF course, the
present Presbyterian church was
not there at that time.
Mr.. Greathead and Mr.. Gillis
were able to recall the names of
many of the boys and girls who
were pupils that summer, and
whose homes were IN McCon.
nellsburg and vicinity. TIL e
names, however, in most cases
will sound as strange to the boys
and girls of our schools now as
would those of some town hun.
dreds of miles away. Here are
the names,-
Henry Bender, Margaret Ben
der, John w. Bohn, Mary A.
Bohn, Susan Coufer, Daniel A.
Comerer, Susan Comerer, Ada
line Charlton, John Flora, Mary
Fetter, Charles Fetter, George
w. Greathead, David A. Gillis,
Mary Gillis, Nick Houser, Mary
E. Houser, James King, Mary E.
Kittel, John Nell, George Nell,
James Morrow, Mary E. Nor
row, Jane Morrow, Adam Nor
itz, William OFT, Elizabeth Ott,
Mary A. OFT, William Smith, Ma.
ry Smith, George S. Stoner, Ann
Stoner, William Selsor, Marga-
ret Shaffer, Ben Shoemaker, Su-
san White, William Windle, Eliza
beth Windle, Martha Windle, An
drew Work, George Work.
The Benders mentioned are
brother and sister of Samuel,
William and Martin, who still re-
side here, and lived in the old
Bender home up on Main street,
now owned and occupied by Mar.
tin M. Bender.
The Bohns lived in the build,
ing now the home of b. w. Peck,
and in that family lived Susan
White. Susan Couter was a
daughter of a blacksmith who
lived on the southwest corner OF
Third and Water street, where
Mrs. Rebecca Alexander now
lives. The blacksmith shop stood
on the spot now occupied by the
United Presby terian church,
Daniel and Susan Comerer were
children of John Comerer, who
at that time was miller at the
stone mill just south of town.
Susan is now the wife OF Mr.
Isaac Hull and lives in this place
Adaline Charlton's people liyet
10 a little house that stood on the
lot back of the frame part o,
Woollet's hotel, just across the
alley from Frank p. Lynch's sta
BILE. John Flora was a son O
George Flora, who lived at tina
time in the house now owned by
Geo. w. Hays. Charles and Ma
ry Fetter were children of ---
Fetter, who lived where Samue
2 Kelly now resides, on South Firs
!, street. George w. Greathead
! who still resides here, is son o
D Thomas Greathead, who at tina
I. date lived in the stone house no,
: known as the "Mrs. Sterrett
house. d. A. G,llis and Mar,