Caldwell County MO Archives History .....EARLY SCHOOL DAYS AT PLEASANT RIDGE SCHOOL 
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EARLY SCHOOL DAYS AT PLEASANT RIDGE SCHOOL
	Narrator:  William Clampitt of Colorado

	Narrator:  William Clampitt formerly lived east of Hamilton near the 
Pleasant Ridge school.  (See separate paper on the Clampitt family).  Recently 
he and Dan Gudgell met in the Colorado home of Mr. Clampitt.  Their 
conversation naturally dwelt on the past and especially on their early school 
days in Caldwell county.  Mr. Clampitt now past 80 years, had a vivid memory 
of his school days in New York township at Pleasant Ridge school.  Mr. Dan 
Gudgell retails what he said to the interviewer.
     James M. Puckett, now of Hamilton, is one of the few now alive who went 
to school with him over 60 years ago.  Other boys were John 2 Bowers who lived 
south east of Hamilton, John Bowers (kin to preceding) who lives in Nettleton 
community, William Russell of near Richmond, and Charley Smith of Colo.
     The older boys of the old school were; another Bowers boy, who lived near 
Nettleton, Tom Puckett deceased, Charley Smith got a whipping every day at 
school under one teacher, regardless of what he did and finally he came to 
expect one.
     The Pleasant Ridge school building still stands on the same hill, but it 
is a different building now.  The old one was frame made with walnut siding.
     William or "Billy" Clampitt as he was generally known, was the same young 
man who sported a buggy, the first one in his part of the county, a fact 
mentioned by several old timers in their interviews.
     Interview  1935.


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