My grandmother and grandfather went to school in this schoolhouse. Can you imagine being stuck in there in the south Georgia heat, along with mosquitoes and gnats? My great-great grandfather built the school.
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@exexec Yes that is smaller than my class so a very very small school, I would guess this must have been in a village or small community where there weren't many people generally?
@exexec Oh ok so even fewer people. I guess that makes sense. Would you have to travel a long way to get to that school then from whatever farm you lived on?
@MarthaMazz I am not exactly sure where the school was located, but I assume it was on the Pearson property. In that case, all families would have been within two or three miles from the school.
@exexec Ok I guess that is not so bad, but then I guess back then and in that place people wouldn't have had cars etc so you would have to walk to school every morning?
@MarthaMazz Thanjk you for the questions! Family history is my hobby, and questions make me thing. I imagine most kids walked. Older ones might have ridden a mule or some may have ridden in a wagon driven by a farm hand. Teenagers dropped out of school to work on the farm, sawmill, or around the house..
@exexec Family history is really interesting, or just any kind of history to me anyway. I didn't think about people dropping out of school for work but yeah I guess people had to back then.
@MarthaMazz I only know of one person who came through that school who went on to college, became a river boat owner and state senator. I didn't know why he was the exception.
@MarthaMazz My grandfather did. Then he went into the logging business and then owned a turpentine still. He eventually became a tobacco farmer. My grandmother probably left school to learn how to cook, sew, and do other things ladies did. She spent some time as the postmaster of the community post office, a one room shack on my great-grandfather's property.
