Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson
  <http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00005.html#0001143>
 
 
Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY Sept. 24, 1924
 
Teacher Sixty Years
   Whitesburg, Ky., Sept. 24. -- Uncle Wesley Banks, oldest rural teacher in
the state of Kentucky, and still active in his profession, though grizzled
and gray, has just launched upon another seven month term of school in his
home district at Line Fork in the southern end of Letcher county.  For
nearly 60 years Uncle Wesley has been active in teaching the young idea.  He
has done more to eradicate illiteracy from Letcher county and the mountains
than any other man.  Uncle Wesley a few days ago rounded out his 74th year,
and he is still as active as most men at 40.  While in his teens he started
teaching in the long, long years ago.  He still enjoys his life vocation --
a vocation he loves so well.
 
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