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This one-room school is located in Ada, Oklahoma. It is probably very similar to one that my Dad attended about twenty miles away in Madill, Oklahoma. My great-aunt received her first teaching certificate in 1903 in Oakman, Oklahoma, less than 10 miles from this building. She was teaching in Oklahoma Territory four years prior to statehood. I cannot imagine the courage that it took for a single girl, seventeen years old, to leave her family in Kentucky, travel to Indian Territory and begin a teaching career. You have to admire that kind of person. She lived her adult life in Oakman, died in 1978 and is burried in Ada, Oklahoma. She was an incredible woman.
She sounds like an incredible woman. She came from great stock, just like you.
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The red schoolhouse of one room is amazing, its hardships needing a teacher of fortitude and faith, The strong belief of hard work and perseverance combined with kindness and hope. An amazing woman who knew what she could offer to those children eager to learn, to know what they did not. It dose seem with today's lifestyle that we have become softer as citizens. An inspiring story!
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Schools used to be simple affairs, but no longer!
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How quaint, and it has been preserved well.
ReplyDeleteYour aunt must have been a truly amazing woman to have done all that. What a made for the movies life.
ReplyDeleteI was a teacher and I think having your own school to teach in would have been a dream come true but I'm not sure I would have been brave enough to do it. I admire your aunt for having the courage to go and do what she knew she was capable of doing.
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what a beautiful RED old school :-) Dropping by from last weeks RT2
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