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No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:15:26 -0400 From: Harry Liggett To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20021014081409.00941b30@pop3.norton.antivirus> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Wilma (LIggett) Baker obit Tuscarawas County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by ohmx01.mgw.rr.com id g9F77Ia4021993 Wilma B. Baker Wilma B. Baker, 99, of Gnadenhutten died at 8:55 a.m. Saturday,=20 Oct. 12, 2002, in Twin City Hospital at Dennison, O. She was born June 3, 1903, in Cadiz Junction, O., a daughter of=20 the late Frank Arthur Liggett and Nora Dell Penn Liggett. In 1922, she=20 married George M. Baker, now deceased. She is survived by a daughter-in-law, Carol Baker, of the home;=20 two grandsons, Rick and Melissa Baker of Bolivar and Charlie and Kathy=20 Baker of Austin, Texas; one granddaughter, Mrs. Barry (Christy) Walker of= =20 Gnadenhutten; 10 great-grandchildren and 15 great-great-grandchildren; a=20 sister, Mary Ong of Dennison; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her father, Frank Arthur Liggett; h= er=20 mother, Nora Dell Liggett; her husband, George M. Baker; a son, Charles F= .=20 Baker; a granddaughter, Shirley I. Baker; brothers, Percy Ray. Harry Doyl= e,=20 Bert Penn, George =F4Skeet=F6 Wayne, Frank Arthur and William McDonald Li= ggett;=20 also two sisters, Edith Marie Liggett and Winifred Irene Krebs. She was a life resident of this area and attended the First=20 Assembly of God at New Philadelphia. She enjoyed making beaded necklaces=20 and ornaments and loved crocheting. Wilma had worked at the Scio Pottery=20 for 25 years and had been a loving wife, mother and homemaker totally=20 devoted to her family. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2002,= =20 in R.K. Lindsey Funeral Home at Dennison, O., with Pastor Larry Fletcher=20 officiating. Burial will be in Ridgecrest Memory Gardens at Dover. Callin= g=20 hours are from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday (today), Oct. 14, 2002, in R.K. Lindsey= =20 Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to First Assembly of God at N= ew=20 Philadelphia. R.K. Lindsey (740) 922-1970 [The Times-Reporter, New Philadelphia, Ohio, Monday, October 14, 2002] ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:28:40 EDT From: Kreapsparrot@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <16c.158dca2f.2adcbb38@aol.com> Subject: [OH-FOOT] HISTORY OF TIVERTON CENTER SCHOOL COSHOCTON Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO Tiverton Center School District #3 Tiverton Township Became Tiverton Special School District 1909 January 4, 1834 John and Elizabeth Holt, James and Elizabeth Draper, Henry and Mary Miller and James and Ann Conner conveyed land for a schoolhouse and meeting house described as the northeast corner of the SE1/4 Section 13, Township 7, Range 9 (7-501). There was certainly a school in a log schoolhouse operating by 1839 when the enumeration was reported as 39. Teachers by school years with pay 1856 W.R. Kinsey $66 Lewis Powelson $27 1857 Lewis Powelson $27 A.J. Hyatt $60 1858 Abraham J. Cummings $91 was also postmaster at Yankee Ridge 1858. 1859 Minerva Harrison $31 Abraham J. Cummings $58 1860 R.W. Leggett $59 J.W. Winslow $45 By 1858 there was need for a new schoolhouse at Tiverton Center. At the April 19, 1858 School Board meeting a motion to erect a new schoolhouse in District #3 with the privilege of levying a sufficient amount to complete the building the next spring, was carried. At their next meeting, May 21, 1858 the contract for building the schoolhouse in District #3 was rejected, and a tax levied for the building withdrawn. At the April 1860 meeting, the motion to build a new schoolhouse in this District again failed. But by April 15, 1861 the Board voted to proceed to erect a new schoolhouse 26 x 24, and a committee of Isaac Beam, R.D. Barr and George Stringfellow was appointed to build the schoolhouse. A total of $325 was levied in the District and Township for building the new schoolhouse. 1861 W.B. Barton $27 D.R. Campbell $45 died in Iowa 1868 1862 Annie O. White (Wolfe) $54 Delilah E. Brillhart (McCoy) $30 1863 Sarah E. Church (Buchanan) 1838-1915 R.W. Leggett $74 1864 D.R. Campbell $70 Rosella Winslow (Sapp) $52 Directors of Tiverton Center School 1853-92, many of whom served several terms: William Winslow John E. Hays Zachariah Hays George Stringfellow Amos Tarrh Samuel B. Stringfelow John Philip Stillinger Simon Tarrh L.C. Langford J.W. Holt Jasper Smith Abraham Conner J.W. Neville E.E. Day Solomon Robinson L.G. Walker H.W. Winslow R.D. Barr Isaac Underhill J.J. Gamertsfelder W.E. McFarland John Lower J.I. Purdy J.P. Fry 1865 D.R. Campbell $70 1866 s Sarah A. Borden $45 w J.J. Kinsey $79 1867 Matthew Waters w Sarah A. Borden 1868 s Jennie Weeks 1850- w Jane Weeks 1869 s Sarah E. Buchanan w Rosella Winslow (Sapp) 1869: James Conner to furnish the lumber and build a fence around schoolhouse for $20. 1870 s Louisa B. Borden w Sarah E. Buchanan 1871 Joseph Ferenbaugh 1872 s Louisa B. Borden w John Wagner 1834-1919 summer: Belle Simpson 1873 s Mollie A. Swigert w John A. Lonsinger 1847-1918 1874 Sarah E. Buchanan 1875 s Lucy McKee w George W. Ganmble died 1892 The School Board at its meeting, January 17, 1876 granted privilege of schoolhouse in District #3 for any religious exercises, Sabbath School, etc. so long as said house is taken care of. Directs directors to have the school house open every Sabbath during the present summer. 1876 s Theresa Drummond (Underhill) w Levi Gamble 1838-1890 1877 s Sarah Day w Joshua Ferenbaugh 1878 J.I. Purdy, both terms 1851-1935 1879 s Sarah Day w James I. Purdy 1880 s Theresa Drummond (Underhill) w George W. Mohler 1881 Stuart Bailey - Enumeration: 58 youth 1882 s George W. Mohler w Joseph B. Severns 1856-1935 1883 s Daniel Speck 1859-1930 1884 s Ida F. Winslow (Severns) w Grant Wheeler 1864-1935 1885 s Della Nichols (Little) w W.S. Pigman 1860-1936 1887 s Matilda Weeks (Mrs.) d. 1926 w James L. Meredith d. 1898 from the Democratic Standard March 18, 1887: "About 12 citizens of the Township presented a petition praying for the erection of a building suitable for a Select School house at Tiverton Center. The Board took the matter under consideration, and decided adversely to the project by a vote of 6 to 1." 1888 s Emma Weeks dau. of Mrs. Matilda Weeks w J.W. Cole 1889 Wilmer R. Walker (Rev.) 1869-1956 1890 s Ollie Hughes (Wheeler) from the Democratic Standard, May 2, 1890: "The Board of Education of Tiverton Township by a vote of 8 to 1 will build a new schoolhouse in District #3. The citizens of the Township will raise money by donation if possible, for a second story to be used as a Select School. We wish the citizens success." At the April 21, 1889 meeting of the School Board when they voted to build a new Tiverton Center schoolhouse, a committee on specifications was appointed consisting of Amos Tarrh, J.A. Lonsinger and J.F. Smith. The Board granted citizens of the Township the privilege of putting a second story on the schoolhouse. At the April 1890 meeting the speifications were accepted and it was determined to ask for sealed bids. A motion to put a belfry on the schoolhouse carried, limiting the cost of the bell to $10. The bid of Amos Tarrh was accepted with the understanding that it would be finished before December 1, 1890. Fashion seats were to be used in the new schoolhouse. At the June 6, 1890 meeting of the School Board, a new site for the Tiverton Center School was determined - "on the Spring Mountain road east, or on the Walhonding road south of Tiverton Center." At their next meeting, July 28, 1890 a motion to reconsider the site, lost, but a motion to change the shape of the site carried. April 20, 1891 the School Board leased the site for the new Tiverton Center School from William and Thomas Winslow - one acre out of the northeast corner of section 13, Tiverton Township, for as long as used for school purposes. May 23, 1891 the Building Committee reported that Amos W. Tarrh had completed the new schoolhouse according to specifications, and the School Board then officially accepted the building. The following payments were made for the new schoolhouse: 1891 - W.H. Winslow for site $200; Samuel Borden for fence $49.50; Amos Tarrh - building $270; Bell $10; Desks $48.90; Anatomical Aid $37.50 At their meeting August 31, 1891 the following texts for use in the Tiverton Township schools were selected by the School Board: McGuffey Revised Eclectic Reader - and also Speller Harvey's Revised English Grammar Ray's Arithmetic Ellsworth System of Penmanship Barnes. History Ohio Copy Book Eclectice Geography Hutchinson's Physiology E.E. Day (the storekeeper) was to be contracted with to furnish the texts for sale. 1890 w S.H. Richard - Enumeration 60 1891 s J.W. Cole w William H. Thompson 1892 s Wilmer R. Walker w B.F. Barnes 1894 s Laura Sapp (Stover) 1895 s Clarence E. Day 1874-1965 - was Postmaster at Tiverton 1905. In 1908, 4 weeks after he bought the general store there, it burned. w Anna Almack from the Democratic Standard, July 24, 1896: "The grand masquerade and ice cream festival on the new school house grounds last Saturday evening at Tiverton, came off according to program and proved a grand success." 1897 Sylvia Almack 1876-1952 New stove caps purchased. 1898 Byron Meredith - was graduated Warsaw High School 1898 1899 & 1900 Robert L. Boyd, 1872-1961. Later he was in the U.S. Postal Service where he served until retirement. New stove and stove pipe for School costing $15.95. Beginning 1901 Tiverton Center School was no longer a one-room school, so only its general history will be given. from the Democratic Standard, April 9, 1904: "Notice of Hearing of application for special school district in Tiverton Township, Coshocton County, Ohio. Notice is hereby given that on the 21st day of March 1904, John E. Gays, (died 1933) and others filed in the Probate Court their petition alleging a refusal of the Board of Education of Tiverton Township to establish a special school district in said Township and praying for the establishment of a special school district. T.S. Sharpless, William Graham and R.A. McClure have been appointed commissioners to hear said petition, said commissioners to meet in schoolhouse in District #3, 4th May 1904 at 4 o'clock. Russell L. Donley, Judge." July 4, 1904: "The voters of the special school district organized in Tiverton Township recently, assembled and elected J.J. Gamertsfelder as chairman and Charles McDonald as Secretary. The object of the meeting was to make final arrangements for the election of the five directors to be held at Tiverton July 11th. Everything that can be done toward making the special school district a success is being pushed. Every voter is earnestly desired to attend on that day - July 11th - as they can help the matter along." Thus C.B. Hunt, attorney for the petitioners, was successful in securing a Special School District rating for Tiverton against James Glenn, attorney representing the Board of Education, who was opposing it. from the Coshocton County Auditior's Report to the State Commissioner of Education 1906: "There are only two Greek Scholars, two students in Political Economy and one in Natural History, all these in a cetain school in Tiverton Township - Township that is even without a high school." When the Special School District of Tiverton was created, it was challenged as demanding taxes from too large a teritory. October 12, 1909 the case was settled by giving the Tiverton Special School District 850 acres instead of 1400 as asked, from which to draw revenues. H.H. Hagelbarger, Goerge Proper, A.H. Chaney and Abraham Simmons were on the School Board at this time. In 1919 a new schoolhouse ws built at Tiverton on the same site as the old one. School was opened late so that the building could be finished and the year began in the new building. For the grades 1919 through 1929 three teachers were employed and after 1929 there were usually four teachers, each teaching two grades. Dutch Run School pupils were sent to Tiverton School in the fall of 1920. In the fall of 1932 the Hunter and Wolf Creek Schools were closed and these children were sent to Tiverton to School. Horse Shoe Bend School and Chestnut Ridge School were closed in the fall of 1933 and their pupils sent to Tiverton Center to school. In August 1932, the Dutch Run Schoolhouse was moved to Tiverton Center and in August 1933 the Horse Shoe Bend Schoolhouse was also moved there. In 1946 the higher grades of Tiverton's School were transferred to Nellie and pupils sent there by bus. The School was reduced to two teachers. In 1953 this School again became a one-room school, the last one in Coshocton County. Mrs. Rebecca Williams Horn taught the first four grades until January 1959 when these pupils were also sent to the Nellie School by bus and the Tiverton Center School finally abandoned. Tiverton High School The first Tiverton High School was established in 1902 in the two-story schoolhouse with the outside stairway to the second floor on the outside of the building. The grade shcool pupils used the first floor, entering from the front door and the high school pupils used the second floor, entering from the outside stairway on the rear of the schoolhouse. This was a 3d grade, two-year high school and lasted only about eight years, being abandoned in 1910. Its first Commencement was held April 21, 1909 in the Tiverton Methodist Church. The two graduates were Noble Hagelbarger 1889-1965 and Burgess Smith 1890-1934, both of whom taught in the county in later years. Tiverton High School closed in April 1906 when Mansfield Almack gave a reception for the high school at the home of John E. Hays. The 1910 graduates were Elvin and Agnes Gamertsfelder, Irvin Stillinger, Clara Cooper, Esther Rahn, Laura Brown, Florence Richards and Marie Carter. In 1919 when the new four-room schoolhouse was erected, the Tiverton High School was again started, a 3d grade 2-year high school. The first Commencement of the re-established high school was held at the Grange Hall, May 8, 1920 Tiverton Center and the graduates were: Nellie M. Shoder, Floyd T. Workman, Ina E. Bumpus, Jesse E. Tarrh and Merwyn Gaumer. The last Tiverton High School Commencement in 1939 had six graduates: Arthur Bumpus, Lucille Conner, Patricia Gamertsfelder, Harley Rhodes, John Sheldon and Junior Spurgeon. The Tiverton High School was abandoned in the summer of 1939 and its pupils sent to the Warsaw High School in the fall. The Tiverton High School with the Walhonding High School, were the two last of the 3d grade 2-years high schools in the County and among the last in the State. Teachers at Tiverton Center Schools Grover Speckman Mansfield J. Almack Charles R. Kimberley Burgess Smith R.R. Cross J.R. Sherry W.H. Parks John Proper Elmer Hoberg PF. Coggins Lloyd P. Williamson W.R. Root Carl Brumme Celia Lonsinger Edward Whitemore Ethel Holt Julia Ruth Butler Wilson Van Voorhis Michael Smithhisler E.A. Shonk Duna Moore Carl Smith E.A. Robinson Beatrice Hosler Charlotte Marshall Mabel Stout P.S. Fellers Daniel Gorey Thelma Spurgeon Alred Hagelbarger Wilhelmina Cummings Lucy Lonsinger Nellie Moore Carrie Winslow Ada Greenbaugh Hazel Gamertsfelder Ethel Gamertsfelder Elva Boyd Mary Axline Elva Boyd Gladys Koop Emma Smucker Minna Rahn Pauline Lonsinger Hoberg Lucy Stillinger Lena Lyons Ina Bumpus Helen Stover Ora Darr Mildred Ekey Anna Reiss Audrey Addy Orpha Garrison Louise McNabb Letha Heffelfinger Harold Hutchinson Grace Harmon Paul Dean Jean Klein Ida Drake Eileen Hooker Carl McKee Mary E. Lyons Virginia B. Hill Lillie Shyte John Shuy Fern Wolfe Ruby Sproull Gerald Parsons Dale Cahill Rebecca Horn -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V02 Issue #211 *******************************************