Anderson Seminary

Anderson Seminary (sometimes referred to as Anderson Chapel School or Onward Station School) was located in the Onward community of White County, about halfway between Quebeck and Doyle.
Anderson Seminary was founded sometime around 1875. On August 15, 1891, H.B. Ward donated a half-acre plot to the Trustees of the school, J.D. Cummings, Arch Slaton, T.H. Steward, William Swafford, and Ward himself. The school received half-interest in the property, the other half went to Altis Lodge No. 200, an Oddfellows lodge that used the upper story of the building for their meetings.
The school met in a two-story frame building. Along with the lodge, it was shared with various religious denominations in the neighborhood, who kept a rotating schedule of who had the rights to worship in the schoolhouse. Methodists claimed the first Sunday of the month, Missionary Baptists the second, Cumberland Presbyterians the third, and the "Christian Order" the fourth. The congregations were prohibited from holding services that might conflict with the school's classes.
Anderson Seminary closed its doors in 1917.
==List of teachers==
*Lester Dodson
*Orpha Moore Gates
*Millie Knowles Horton
*C.F. Kerr
*Lucian McDowell
*Anna Mae Brock Miller
*Billie O'Conner
*Ethel Goddard Phifer
*Tom Sparkman
*Sallie Sparkman
*Belle Johnson Stewart
*Gertrude Stewart
*Fred Tittsworth
*Bill Williams
==References==
*White County Retired Teachers' Association. Schools of White County Tennessee 1806-2006. Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2006.
Category:Defunct White County schools
Category:Onward