YANCEY COUNTY, NC - SCHOOLS - Mt. Vernon School Circa 1906
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Mt. Vernon School Circa 1906

The following persons were listed in a photograph of the Mt. Vernon School
in Spruce Pine, taken in about 1906.

First row, left to right, Annie Washburn, Proffitt, Zula Fisher (Mrs. A.N.
Fuller), unknown, Proffitt, Marjorie Davenport, deceased; unknown, Edith
Grumley, Bela Berry, deceased; Richard Wiseman, lawyer in Chicago; Joe Patrick
(Mrs.), unknown, Lawrence Autrey, deceased; Rom Duncan, lives at Nebo [now
deceased]; next two unknown.

Second row, left to right: unknown, Jamima Biggerstaff, deceased; Myrtle
Davenport (Mrs. John Young), Washburn, Helen Fisher, deceased; Stella Fisher,
deceased; Nell Swann, deceased, George Bartlett's mother; Essie Biggerstaff,
deceased; Lizzie Pendley (Mrs. Ed Cox), Edith Rowe, deceased; Mae Patrick,
deceased; Virdie Patrick (Mrs. Canipe, Mayor Albert Canipe's mother), Annie
Harrison (Mrs. Washburn), Dowe Woody, deceased; Spence Autrey, deceased;
unknown. 

Third row, left to right: Julie Rose, deceased; Walter Buchanan, unknown,
Sadie Duncan [now deceased], Avery Rose, deceased; unknown, Ed Buchanan,
deceased; Bill Wiseman, deceased; next two unknown, Lonnie Gunter, Lynn
Davenport (lives in New York State). 

Fourth row, left to right: Ora Duncan (Mrs. Virgus Freeman) [now deceased],
unknown, Eva Washburn (Mrs. Ransom Edney), Ben Biggerstaff, Bertie Pendley,
deceased, mother of Baxter Johnson; Arthur Rose, deceased; Grace Blalock (Mrs.
Rube Swann, deceased); Clara Rose, deceased; Lane Rowe, deceased; Kate Blalock
(Mrs. Arthur Gibbs), Minnie Buchanan, Edith Rowe, deceased; Maude Wiseman
(lives in Kingsport, Tenn.). 

Fifth row, left to right: Eva Patrick, deceased; Irma Fisher (Mrs. Reid Berry)
holding brother, Bill Fisher; Mable Wiseman, deceased; Aby Biggerstaff,
deceased; Carrie Harrison (Mrs. Milas Woody), Sadie Wiseman, deceased; Charlie
Slagle, deceased (father of Mrs. D.L. Phillips); Arthur Washburn, deceased;
Dudley Berry (lives in Mass.), Dallas Duncan, deceased; Isaac Duncan,
deceased; Willis Gunter, Lindsey Pendley, deceased; Robert Wiseman, deceased;
Bess Berry (Mrs. Ray Dickey), unknown, Essie Buchanan, Paul Rose, deceased.