Roane County TN Archives History - Books .....Rittenhouse Academy Pupils, 1848 1927 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@gmail.com November 6, 2005, 9:16 pm Book Title: The History Of Roane County Tennessee 1801-1870 1848 W. S. McEwen R. D. Fleming Samuel Eblen Charles Gallaher Fleming Work James Lea Thos. Childress James McNutt George Brown Sam'l Pyott R. N. McDuffee James Asbury Elizabeth Patton The Treasurer's records show that more money was spent on window panes than almost any one thing. One old rule was that the students were not to study aloud. An old story that has been handed down from the early days of the Academy is amusing. Mrs. B. was passing the school one day just as the school closed, and the larger boys rushed out. some reciting "Alpha-Beta-Chi-Delta-Gamma at the top of their voices, and scared the old lady so much that she rushed into the house next door crying "Sister S. save me. they are running after me yelling "catch her. beat her. kill her. dam her." Additional Comments: From: Part Three The History of Roane County Tennessee 1801-1870 by Emma Middleton Wells Printed by The Lookout Publishing Company Chattanooga, Tennessee (1927) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/roane/history/1927/roanecou/rittenho48nms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/tnfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb