UNKNOWN COUNTY OHIO - OBITUARY:  Saum, Elizabeth B.
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Times-Gazette
March 16, 1998

Elizabeth B. Saum
   Elizabeth B. (Betty) Saum passed away March 13 at Highland District Hospital.
   She was born Dec. 11, 1903, in Marshall Township, the daughter of Clyde and 
Nellie Lucas Barrett. She was 94 years of age.
   She graduated from Hillsboro High School in 1922 and had taken summer classes 
at Wilmington College while in high school. She had earned enough credit hours 
to have a teaching certificate at the end of the summer classes the same year 
she graduated from high school.
   She was married to Duvall Saum on Aug. 22, 1922, the same day she finished 
classes at Wilmington College. He predeceased her after more than 50 years of 
marriage.
   Her first teaching position was at Stringtown School. It was here that the 
first school lunch in the county was established. She had a three-burner 
kerosene stove with an oven and she cooked food the families sent in with their 
students.
   She taught at several of the one-room schools in Highland County. In 1942, 
she accepted the position of principal of New Market School where she also 
taught the seventh and eighth grades. She was the first woman principal in 
Highland County. She taught there for 27 years until the school was reorganized 
with the Hillsboro School System.
   She was then assigned to teach sixth grade math at Marshall. She retired in 
1973. After that, she was a substitute teacher having taught in every school in 
Highland County. During her teaching career of 60 years, she touched the lives 
of many students teaching them much more than they got from the books. She was 
revered by her students and many remained in contact with her over the years.
   She was a faithful member of the Hillsboro Church of Christ where she never 
missed a service until health prevented her from attending. She was a member of 
the Hillsboro Garden Club, the American Legion Auxillary and the Highland County 
Historical Society. She was inducted into the AAUW Hall of Fame in 1991.
   She is survived by her sister, Doris B. Smith of Hillsboro; one nephew, Ralph 
B. Pat (Madonna) Smith of Hillsboro; three nieces, Beverly (Clifford) Fenner of 
Hillsboro, Aileen (Paul) Githens of Richmond, Ind., and Jeanette Williamson of 
Keokuk, Iowa; 14 great-nieces and nephews, 25 great-great-nieces and nephews and 
six great-great-great-nieces and nephews.
   Services will be held Wednesday morning at 11 a.m. at the Hillsboro Church of 
Christ with visitation at the church on Tuesday from 4 to 8 p.m. Burial will be 
made in the Marshall Cemetery. The Hope Miller-Thompson Funeral Home is serving 
the family.
   It is suggested that memorial contributions be made to the Hillsboro Church 
of Christ.