Ionia-Eaton County MI Archives News.....SEBEWA CENTER SCHOOL DISTRICT #4 IN 1897 February 1981
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THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR, Bulletin Of The Sebewa Center Association; Submitted With Written Permission Of Current Editor Grayden D. Slowins; Volumne 16, February 1981, Number 4; Submitted With Written Permission Of Current Editor Grayden D. Slowins February 1981
SEBEWA CENTER SCHOOL DISTRICT #4 IN 1897
Bearing a date of May 28, 1897 a card was issued by schoolteacher O. C. Allen 
supported by Director J. O. Olry, Moderator I. A. Brown and Assesspr H. 
Townsend of Sebewa Center School District #4, listing the pupils of the 
district.  Here is the list of pupils:  Winfield Cassel, age 17, Ross Townsend, 
17; Nellie Meyers, 17; Nora Luscher, 16; Blanche Townsend, 15; Irving Brown, 
15; Robert Gierman, 15; Asa Cassel, 15; Glen Olry, 15; Maud Wood, 15; Hugh 
Showerman, 14; Earl Pettingill, 14; George Gierman, 14; Fred Benedict, 14; Mary 
Pettingill, 13; Herbert Demaray, 13; Myrtle Townsend, 12; Cora Gierman, 12; 
Gertrude Bickle, 11; Bertha Demeray, 11; Homer Luscher, 11; Bennie Probasco, 
11; Earnest Clark, 10; Winnie Estep, 10; May Gunn, 10; Edna Luscher, 9; Jessie 
Tran, 9; Frank Bickle, 9; Oscar Cassel, 8; Beulah Gunn, 8; Vera Gunn, 8; Fern 
Probasco, 7; John Luscher, 7; Don Estep, 7; Archie Meyers, 7; Edna Gierman, 6; 
Reva Snyder, 5; Harry Meyers, 5; Roy Cassel, 5; Miles Tran, 5

A year or two later the family of William Howland, faced with near crop failure 
at Lapeer was inducted by W. W. Merrifield to move to Sebewa.  That move added 
the name of Edna Howland to the District #4 list of pupils, making three Ednas 
on the school list.

In 1980 Edng (Sp?) Gierman Sayer and Edna Howland celebrated their 90th 
birthdays as had Edna Luscher Wenger some three years earlier.  To have three 
young ladies of the same first name in one country school grow to be 
nonagenarians seems extraordinary.

Of that group of pupils Ben Probasco and Beulah Gunn besides the Ednas lived to 
pass their 90th year.  Each of the Ednas lived in her own home.  Ben, at 95 is 
in the Eaton County Medical Care Facility and Beulah died last year.

Of this list of 40 pupils, only Robert Gierman and Nellie Myers and Asa Cassel 
and Beulah Gunn paired in marriage.




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