Schley County GaArchives Photo Group.....8th Grade Class, Crisp Institute, 1909? 1909
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Elizaeth Hedrick elizabethhedrick@bellsouth.net April 12, 2007, 9:58 pm

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I am attaching a picture of the Crisp Academy (I have no idea what that was).  
I do not think that my daddy ever lived anywhere other than Ellaville though, 
so I am thinking that the school was in Ellaville.
 
Endine Hart sent this picture to me years ago.  My daddy (Johnny Lindsay) is 
on the bottom row, left side, first person.
 
I believe that Endine said that this was the eighth grade class of Crisp 
Academy.  I am just guessing, but maybe this picture was taken in 1909/1910.  
I think my daddy was born in 1897. (1895?)
 
I don't know if there is anybody left who would know who any of these folks 
are, unless there is a copy of the photo somewhere with the names included.
 


Additional Comments:
Above is a portion of an email received from Elizabeth Hedrick.  The 
photograph, I'm convinced is indeed of the Charles Frederick Crisp Institute 
(Academy).  

Below is my reply.

Beth,
 
I can tell you quite a lot about the Crisp Academy or Crisp Institute as it 
was also known.  It was the pride of Ellaville and Schley county in it's day.  
It was THE school and was named for Ellaville's MOST famous citizen Charles 
Frederick Crisp.  Mr. Crisp was an attorney who lived in the house where the 
Manning children all grew up.  It was and still is located at the NE corner of 
Broad and College streets.  It was recently sold by Jack Gilchrist, I 
believe.  Mr. Crisp lived there in 1860 (and prior) and indeed may have been 
the original occupant and/or builder of the house.  His first child (son), I 
believe, was born in that house.
 
Why was he Ellaville's most famous citizen?  Charles Frederick Crisp was 
something of a Civil War hero.  He was an officer in the Confederate Army, 
captured early in the war and imprisoned at Fort Delaware, Delaware.  In a 
political tug-of-war, he and all the Confederate officers imprisoned at Fort 
Delaware were sent to a fortress in Charleston, S.C. harbor.  They were placed 
there to intimidate the southern forces from shelling the fort.  They were 
treated horribly and many starved to death on the rations they were given.  
They became known after the war as the Immortal 600.  The south was not 
without blame in this affair as they first moved Union officers into the city 
of Charleston to prevent the soldiers in the fort from shelling the city.  So, 
this was retribution.
 
Crisp survived.  After the war, he became a prosecutor for the SW circuit, 
later a judge and U.S. Representative and eventually Speaker of the House of 
Representatives of the United States Congress.  He was revered by all Schley 
countians and indeed all of SW Georgia for his fairness and loyalty to his 
constituency.  As a result of this, the new school in Ellaville carried his 
name in honor.  It was built one year after his death.  I should add that 
Charles Frederick Crisp was born in England and migrated to the U.S./Georgia 
with his parents at about age 1.  He became the son-in-law of Robert Burton, 
key person in Ellaville history, by marrying Clara Belle Burton, sister of 
Ella Burton (Ellaville's namesake).  She died in 1907. 
 
The school was financed by bake sales and all kinds of fund raisers 
spearheaded by the ladies of Ellaville.  They raised every nickel of the cost 
to build this facility.  Everyone wanted a stellar place for the children to 
be educated.  This school was a source of enormous pride for the entire 
community.  Education of the children carried a much larger priority then than 
it does in today's society and the children were much more eager to learn and 
progress (my personal observation as a student of history, not necessarily 
factual).
 
I'm placing a link here to the only photo/rendering I've ever been able to 
find (and I have looked hard) of the Crisp Institue.  It appeared in a May 
1911 issue of The Schley County News.  The school was destroyed by fire Nov. 
4, 1916.  It was originally built in 1897.  School convened in the courthouse 
after the fire until the Ellaville consolidated school was completed in 1917.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/schley/photos/crispins12177gph.jpg

Subsequently, it is believed that the individual next to Johnny Lindsay has 
been identified as William L. Lumpkin.  

If you can identify anyone of these folks, please contact me.  
http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002514

If you have old Schley county photos like these, even if you're not sure what 
they might represent, please consider sharing them.  You never know what they 
might reveal about Schley's past.

Harris


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