Caddo County, Oklahoma Biography - Rosemary Yates Newcombe -------------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ Submitted by: Sandy Miller ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DAVIS SCHOOL #11 by Rosemary Yates Newcombe. Published by the Southwestern Oklahoma Historical Society in 'Prairie Lore,' vol 11 no 1, July 1974, pages 24-25. We moved to the Davis community, seven miles southeast of the town of Apache in 1904. The Davis school building was located three miles east and one and one half miles south from Apache. I was born December 31, 1909. My father was WILLIAM JEFFERSON YATES, called 'Jeff' by his friends. My mother was MARGARET (Courtney) YATES and I had one brother, CLARENCE. I had attended school in Kansas and at Fletcher, Oklahoma before I enrolled at Old Davis school in 1916. I recall some of the teachers at Davis, both while I attended and in later years as FERN JOHNSON, LESIE NICKELS, LEONA CABLE, MR. FRANKLIN, MABLE EXTINE and ELLA BALL. We lived two and a half miles from the Davis school. I never walked that distance, although neighboring children did make this long walk each day. Some of my folks always took me to school in the buggy and when they came after me they would load the buggy with children going our way. There was a creek a half mile south of the school and quite often high water would wash out the bridge on this creek and we could only come to there in the buggy. We got across the creek and walked on to school. The Davis school building was the usual type built in these early days. It was one-room frame, with a high steep roof, windows on each side, and a door in the west end, which faced the road. MRS. TOM COBB, who lived on the farm on which Davis school was located, says the name "Davis" derived from an early day settler who owned this land and gave permission for the school to be built on his homestead. I recall these as some of the children of families in the Davis Community THRALLS, JOHNS, CARRS, JONES, COBBS, EDWARDS, KEERANS, MARRS, DAVIS, ROBERTS, GILBERTS, BONDS, TOOMBS, WILSONS, BROOKS and PRICES. MR. MART KEERAN, who lived for sometime in the Davis community recalls MR. HOWARD FUNK and MABLE RIDLEY as teachers at the Davis school. He also remembers Mr. Edwards, Mr. Johns and Mr. Jones as school board members. Today (1965) only the foundation of the Old Davis shool building remains to mark the site of this former assembly point for people of the Davis