Schools - Farmington1
A BRIEF
HISTORY
OF
FARMINGTON SCHOOLS
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TOWN
OF
FARMINGTON, NC
(1845-1970)
COMPILED BY:
POLLY A. LOMAX
2007
MEMBER OF DAVIE COUNTY
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL
SOCIETY
(Pages digitized by Marie Benge Craig Roth, 2010)
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncdavhgs/farmington.pdf
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CONTENTS
PAGE SUBJECT
CONSTRUCTION AND ADMINISTRATION
3 Introduction
5 Early Education: School of 1845
7 Farmington Female Seminary,1854
10 Farmington Academy, 1882
17 Farmington High School,1916-1919
18 Farmington High School, 1919-1956
LIST OF STUDENTS
29 Students, Farmington Academy, 1882-1908
30 Students, Farmington High School, 1911-1970
41 Graduates and Principals, 1918-1956
LIST OF PRINCIPALS AND TEACHERS
47 Principals and Teachers, 1882-1916
48 Principals and Teachers, 1916-1919
48 Principals and Teachers, 1919-1970
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INTRODUCTION
The following compilation is a journey through about 125 years (1845-1970) of
educational history for the Farmington School property that is now known as the Farmington
Community Center at 1723 Farmington Road.
The unincorporated town we know today as FARMINGTON-has had at least 2 other
names. At first it was called BRYAN'S SETTLEMENT, whose settlers were led by a farmer
named Morgan Bryan, migrating from Pennsylvania through Virginia about the 1750's; the second
name was LITTLE CURRITUCK, settled mostly by farmers from Currituck County NC, coming
to this area of Davie County about 1804, and again in the 1830's.
Little Currituck would really prosper about 1824 when a businessman named Edward
Clemmons arrived in the town, coming from the Clemmons area of Forsyth County NC. Mr.
Clemmons established a general store at the crossroads of the current N.C. Highway 801
(originally called the Post Road) and Farmington Road (first called the Irish Ford/Salisbury Road,
then later called the Huntsville-Mocksville Road).
In the 1830's a stronger surge of Currituck County emigrants arrived in the town of
Little Currituck after the devastation of several coastal hurricanes, along with more settlers
coming from the Clemmons area.
One such farmer who crossed the Yadkin River from the Tanglewood area of
Clemmons into Davie County's Little Currituck was named George Wesley Johnson. He was
born in 1810, the son of John Madison and Lydia Elrod Johnson. In 1834, he was married to
Martha Taylor of Little Currituck, the daughter of Spencer Taylor.
About 1838, G.W. Johnson acquired land in the area and by 1854 he began
construction of the JOHNSON FAMILY HOUSE that is still located on Farmington Road. (THE
HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE OF DAVIE COUNTY NC, PAGE 138)
George Wesley Johnson bought out the business of his rival Edward Clemmons, and
proceeded to build his own general store and post office at the "Crossroads" of the town. He
called his endeavors "THE TOWN OF FARMING", but after being appointed Postmaster on 1
May 1837, the U.S. Postal Service changed the town's name to FARMINGTON.
G. W. Johnson was a most generous and successful businessman, and was well
respected by the community. In 1845, he gave land acreage of 48 poles to the District No.7
School Committee of Farmington, for a "public or common school" in the community; then in
1854, he gave land acreage of 1 acre for $1.00 to the Trustees of the Farmington Female
Seminary for a "good school male or female".
Farmington Female Seminary operated a Tuition School and was later called the
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Farmington Academy by the late 1860's.
Though there were other schools in or near the town prior to G. W. Johnson's arrival
in the 1830's, this compilation will only be a chronicle of the following Farmington Schools:
1. Unnamed 1845 School, Land Grant by G. W. Johnson
2. Farmington Female Seminary, deed by G. W. Johnson, (1854-1882)
3.Farmington Academy, land deed of 1882 granted by Francis Marion
Johnson (son of G. W. Johnson), (1882-1919)
4. Farmington Elementary and High School of 1919 through 1970
Early Davie County history records considered Farmington a county leader in the field
of education. Farmington has the distinction of operating the first "public high school" in the
county, and building the county's first "brick school-house".
FARMINGTON'S scholastic story will now begin with the " SCHOOL OF 1845 "
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EARLY EDUCATION: FARMINGTON SCHOOL
OF 1845
There is a record of a school in LITTLE CURRITUCK about the year of 1804,
however, its name or location is not known. Records state that the early settlers met for church
services in the "local school house" until their church called Olive Branch Methodist could be
established.
Early North Carolina legislators had a very poor record for appropriating funds for a
"free public education". Most state leaders seemed to feel that a child's education was the
responsibility of each individual family, by using either the "home school" or "hired tutor"
approach.
Statistics of 1840 state that only 1 out of 8 children attended school for the year; but
for Davie County families, this would change about 1839 when "free public/common schools"
were voted in by its citizens, 373 "for schools" and 73 "against".
Basically, the concept of the 1839-1840 vote was thusly:
1.Davie County School Districts were to be established and committee members
were to be appointed.
2.If a School District provided a building to house at least 50 pupils, and raised
$20.00 in taxes, then the State Literary Fund would give the District an
additional $40.00, which would pay a teacher $60.00 for a 2 or 3 month school
term.
The Farmington Common Schools District No.7 met the above 2 requirements and
proceeded to establish their "common school". On 4 January 1845, the land for the school was
given by the Town of Farmington's founder, George Wesley Johnson.
Here are excerpts from the deed:
George W. Johnson, of the one part, and Noah Brock, James Kinyoun, and Matthew
Fulford, Committee of Common Schools for District No.7, of the other part, for and in
consideration of the benefit of said school; a certain tract of land on the waters of Cedar Creek
beginning at a stone in Charles Hartman's line, running north 1 € chains, thence west 2 chains,
thence south 1 chain and 50 links, then east 2 chains to the beginning, containing 48 poles more or
less; in fee simple so long as the said premises be used for said common school and no longer;
proved by G.W. Johnson; recorded and registered by John Clement Clerk, at the February Session
1845.
(Davie County Register of Deeds, Book 2, page 345)
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Though in 2007 the current maps, surveys, etc. do not include any reference to this
1845 acreage of 48 Poles, it is believed that this school was built on or in close proximity to the
school property now used as the Farmington Community Center. This conjecture is supported by
the fact that in 1845 Charles Hartman per the deed description above owned the land across the
road from the current school property.
Charles Hartman migrated to Davie County NC in the 1830's, coming originally from
Cabarrus County NC. He purchased about 400 acres of land on Cedar Creek in 1839 from
Spencer Taylor, who was the father-in-law of G.W. Johnson. About 1852, Mr. Hartman sold this
same 400 acres to Dr. James Washington Wiseman, who built the house known as the
"WISEMAN-KENNEN HOUSE", later owned by Queen Bess Kennen, a teacher at Farmington
High School. (THE HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE OF DAVIE COUNTY NC, PAGE141).
Today in 2007 a general description of the early Dr. Wiseman's road frontage would go from
about the corner of Bobbitt Road down Farmington Road to the Farmington Medical Clinic
Building.
These free common schools were paid for by the county taxes, with the levy in 1841
at 7• per $100 valuation plus 15• poll tax for each voting male. In 1844, this tax amounted to
about $550.00, but by 1856, the levy was 10• per $100 valuation, which netted about $1,154.00.
Any other details about this first Farmington Public School are not known. It
probably was replaced by the next land deed granted by George Wesley Johnson in 1854; with the
property of the 1845 deed reverting back to Johnson as he stipulated on the deed.
Once again, George Wesley Johnson would grant land to the Farmington School
Committee, but this 1854 deed would be for what was called a TUITION SCHOOL. Its name
was FARMINGTON FEMALE SEMINARY.
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FARMINGTON FEMALE SEMINARY
TUITION SCHOOL - 1854
Our history for the FARMINGTON FEMALE SEMINARY begins on 12 May 1854,
when the following deed was granted by the Town of Farmington founder, George Wesley
Johnson.
Excerpts from the deed:
G.W. (George Wesley) Johnson, of the one part, and Moses Cuthrell, William B.
(Britian) Brock, William H. Perry, N.T. (Nathaniel) Brock, Levi Fulford, Levin Ward, B.F.
(Frank) Lunn, J.W. (Wilson) Ellis, and Holden Smith, trustees of Farmington Female Seminary, of
the other part; in consideration of a good school and the sum of $1.00, a certain parcel or lot of
land on the waters of Cedar Creek, beginning in the center of the Mocksville Road (now
Farmington Road) and Dr. James Washington Wiseman's corner; runs east with Wiseman's line
210 feet, thence north 210 feet, thence west this same distance to the road and therewith the road
to the beginning; to contain 1 acre of land and no more; to have and to hold in trust for the use
and benefit of the said FARMINGTON FEMALE SEMINARY and none other; should the
Trustees fail or refuse to keep a good school, either male or female, in the house erected on the
lot for the span of 2 years, then said right in said lot to revert back to said G. W. Johnson; it is
further understood the said lot is not to be used for any other purpose than that of a school lot; if
Trustees appropriate any part of it for any other purpose than the school building, this conveyance
to be void; Proved by J. W. Wiseman and Samuel Owens Tatum; Recorded and Ordered to be
Registered by C. Harbin, Clerk, May Session 1854.
(Davie County Register of Deeds, Book 3,Page 797)
This conveyance of land seems to be in the same general area as Mr. Johnson's earlier
deed of 1845, since now in 1854 the beginning line of Dr. Wiseman's property is the same
property owned in 1845 by Charles Hartman, which Dr. Wiseman purchased from Mr. Hartman in
1852.
So, in all probability, this School of 1854 replaced the Old School of 1845; but it is
again noted that this above acreage of 1 acre is not included in the current plats and maps of the
Old Farmington School property, but it is believed that this 1854 School was in close proximity to
the current Community Center.
At first it seems that the FARMINGTON FEMALE SEMINARY was only for
females, with Mrs. Samuel Owens Tatum as the Principal and Teacher. In her diary as Mary Rich
Tatum, her entry of 1870 indicates she began teaching at the school about 1855 for its second
session; while her husband, Samuel Owens Tatum, was a Principal and teacher in 1855 at the
nearby tuition school called Union Academy.
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Union Academy had been founded about 1852, and was located about 1 1/2 mile from
Farmington, on Farmington Road behind the site of the old Olive Branch Methodist Church
Cemetery. It was also a tuition school, and though not recorded in the records as such, it may
have been only for the male gender at its beginning.
On September 18, 1856, the Baptist Biblical Recorder reported the following notice:
"Union Academy and Farmington Female Seminary sessions to open October 6, 1856
for the term of 20 weeks; the tuition for both schools: $5.00 for primary studies, $8.00 for English
and Geography, $10.00 higher English, $12.00 Greek-Latin and higher Math, $5.00 French and
drawing each, $15.00 Music on piano or instrument; board and clothes washing was $6.00 per
month; contact the Principals at Farmington NC, S. O. Tatum and Mrs. S. O.
Tatum" .
Boarding for students was provided by local families of the community. According to
local tradition, the house in Farmington called the "CASH-ALLEN HOUSE" was the "female
dormitory" for the Farmington Female Seminary. The historical research for the house dates the
original construction of the structure to the late 1840's or early 1850's, which would fit the time-
frame of the 1854 school.
(THE HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE OF DAVIE COUNTY NC, PAGE 134)
These "Tuition" schools, sometimes called "Subscription" schools, offered students a
more extensive curriculum of study than the basic "Common or Free Public" schools, such as the
earlier school of 1845. Public schools taught students no further than Reading, Writing and
Figuring, as far as the "Rule of Three"; but the "Tuition" school stressed the higher levels of an
education, even providing preparation for attendance to college.
But yet these tuition schools did not leave out the students that couldn't afford the
cost of paying for their education. Farmington Female Seminary, along with the other tuition
schools of the county, was allotted money by the County Board of Education for a "Free Public
Session", with the term and session to be at the discretion of each principal of the schools. This
"Free School" would usually be held during a break being taken by the tuition students. If a "Free
Pupil" could later pay the tuition, then further schooling could be continued after the end of
the"Free Term".
Sometime along the way, FARMINGTON FEMALE SEMINARY became a school
for males and females, and also the name of the School changed to FARMINGTON ACADEMY.
Though the actual year of the changes in the name is not known, the first mention of
the name FARMINGTON ACADEMY was for the School Year of 1867-1868, as listed in the
BRANSON's BUSINESS DIRECTORY for Davie County NC.
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The next 14 years of pages in the BUSINESS DIRECTORY are missing that would
have listed the schools, principals, and teachers (Martin-Wall History Room, Davie County
Library, Business Directory File). Even though there are no further records for this 1854 School,
it was the center of education in Farmington for a span of about 28 years.
As was typical of this time era, this old school building was of "log construction", and
was destined to be replaced about 1882 with the construction of a "new permanent school", which
would be a "wood-frame construction" structure.
The nearby Union Academy School would also close its operation in 1882 or 1883;
because its leaders had died, and the building, though constructed of brick, was in dire need of
repairs.
With the closing of the Union Academy creating more available students to educate,
plus the growth of the town businesses, it was inevitable that the Farmington citizens decided they
needed a "new school"; the result of this awareness for better schools and buildings in the County
of Davie was a new white wooden-frame construction building in 1882.
This "new school building" would still be a TUITION SCHOOL", and the name
would still be FARMINGTON ACADEMY.
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FARMINGTON ACADEMY
TUITION SCHOOL - 1882
A new wood-frame school-house would replace the "old log building" built about
1854, and this new school building for FARMINGTON ACADEMY would be used for about the
next 37 years.
This school called FARMINGTON ACADEMY would put the Town of Farmington
"on the map" as an educational center in the County of Davie NC. As of the 1907-1908 School
Year, it was the "first high school" established in the county. The Academy remained a "tuition
school" until about 1919, though by 1919, the high school students were admitted free of charge.
Davie County records for the early 1880's indicate the awareness by its officials that a
better system of schools was needed. In 1880, the county schools fund was only $3,285.00 for
about 54 school districts. School attendance at this time was very poor, and most of the county's
buildings were archaic. Minutes of the Board of Education tell us that the grades being taught
were 1st through 3rd, with school terms of about 13 weeks, with the average teacher's salary at
about $25.00.
A "new modern wooden-frame school-house" would be Farmington's solution to
create better educational opportunities for its children.
In 1882, this new school lot acreage was also granted by a member of the G.W.
Johnson family, but this time it was Francis Marion Johnson, the eldest son of George Wesley
Johnson. Somehow the Deed of 1882 "was lost and never recorded" until 1908, so the price,
terms, etc. of this conveyance are not known.
In 1873, Francis Marion Johnson was the builder of the one remaining town's
commercial structure still located on Farmington Road. This building once housed stores, the
Farmington Post Office, the Masonic Lodge, and others. He was also the builder of the
Farmington House known as the JOHNSON-SMITH HOUSE still standing on Farmington Road.
(The Architecture of Davie County NC, Page 139) F. M. Johnson was also Chairman of the
Board of Education in the late 1880's until about 1897, when he was replaced by Wilson R. Ellis.
This "lost 1882 deed" was finally conveyed and registered in 1908. Here are excerpts
from same:
"On unknown day in 1882, F. M. Johnson & Wife A. L. Johnson sold and conveyed
to F. M. Johnson, R.Q. (Richard Quincy Adams) Teague, W. F. (William) Swaim , and J.M.
(James Millys) Johnson, Trustees of the FARMINGTON ACADEMY, for the purposes of
erecting a building thereon for a permanent school, whereas the said deed has been lost without
ever being recorded; and some original Trustees are now deceased; F. M. Johnson, G. P. (Green
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Patterson) Harding, C. A. (Charles Alexander) Hartman, W. G. (William Gaston) Johnson, and A.
W. (Albert Wilson) Ellis now compose the Board of Trustees (in 1908) for said Farmington
Academy; the purpose of said F. M. Johnson and his present wife L.D. Johnson and the said
Trustees of said Academy, is to convey to the Board of Education of Davie County NC, for the
purposes of a "public or high school" in said county; in consideration of the premises, the sum of
$1,000.00 the value of the property, and for the further sum of $1.00 to them in hand paid by
Board of Education; the foregoing to sell and convey to said Board of Education, the following
lands to wit: Beginning at a point in the middle of the Mocksville and Huntsville public road and
runs south 85 degrees west 6.14 chains to a stake, 5 links west of a Hackberry tree, thence south
5 degrees east 2.46 chains to a stake near a Honey Locust, thence north 85 degrees east 6.14
chains to the middle of the public road northeast of and near a Persimmon Tree, thence with said
road 2.46 chains to the beginning, containing 1 1/2 acres, more or less, for full description of
which, see boundaries by E. C. (Enos Calvin) Smith, Surveyor, made April 16, 1908 and being the
lot on which the Academy is now situated; to have and to hold, to the said Board of Education, to
their only use and behoof; said Trustees covenant they are seized of said premises in fee and have
right to convey same in fee simple; Witness: E. E. Hunt, Justice of Peace, on July 6, 1908; Proved
by A. T. Grant, Clerk of Superior Court on July 17, 1908; Registered on July 25, 1908 by A. T.
Grant, Clerk of Superior Court".
(DAVIE COUNTY NC, REGISTER OF DEEDS, BOOK 20,PAGE 214)
This new school house acreage of 1 1/2 acres is well documented through the Deed,
Survey Maps, and Tax Records as being part of the "OLD SCHOOL PROPERTY" used today as
a Community Center. E. C. Smith's survey of boundaries mentioned in the deed above is not
available in the county records; but the Register of Deeds office does have a copy of the 1965
survey map of the "Farmington Graded School Lot", which documents the above described deed
of 1908 as also the site of the 1919 new brick school building.
Historical records for Davie County tell us that the Farmington Academy was built for
about $1,500.00; was described as a one-story, wood frame building (most likely using the floor
plan called "center-hall, single pile"); and an addition of an open-air arbor (or stage/pavillion) was
built in 1894. We are very fortunate to have a photo of the school called FARMINGTON
ACADEMY, and it clearly shows us the physical aspects described herewith.
Former students and advertisements called the school "big and grand", with 2 "big"
rooms with "big" desks and benches that held 2 students, with book storage.
The grades taught were probably 1st through the 7th or 8th grade, with the county
school term being about 65 days each for the fall and spring sessions, typical of this 1880's era;
but in 1882 the private academies usually had longer terms than the county's public schools.
The first record of a scholastic activity for this school is documented with the May
21-22, 1884 Program of Closing Exercises. Samuel W. Finch of Lexington NC was the Principal
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for this School Year of 1883-1884, and he may have been principal for the year before (the 1883
page is missing in the Business Directory). The honorable F. C. Robbins of Lexington also made
the Literary Address.
On Monday August 4, 1884, the next fall session opened for Farmington Academy,
with a new Principal named Professor James F. Brower, who would serve the school until 1888.
Mr. Brower came to Farmington from the closed Union Academy where he was their last
principal. He would leave Farmington in the School Year of 1887-1888 to be the principal at
Rock Spring Seminary in Lincoln County NC. James F. Brower was replaced at the Farmington
Academy by Professor O. B. Eaton.
Notice of the opening for the School Year 1887-1888 called Farmington Academy "a
first class school for boys and girls", with the fall term beginning on Monday, August 15, 1887.
The tuition fee was not given in the notice; it just stated "Board and Tuition cheap".
During this time period of 1887, most Davie County schools had terms of about 65 to
86 days, but some schools like Farmington Academy set their own terms. By 1891 the Academy's
terms were for 80 days.
Professor Oscar Benjamin Eaton was the Principal for this School Year 1887-1888.
He was born in 1859, the son of Professor Jacob "Jake" Eaton and Mary E. Clement, in Davie
County. O. B. Eaton would remain as principal at Farmington Academy until replaced by Leon
Cash in 1891.
The School Year of 1890-1891 was Professor O.B. Eaton's last year. His teachers
listed for this year were R.P. Clingman, Miss S.B. Cuthrell, Miss M.T. Furches, and F.M. Horn.
When O. B. Eaton left Davie County, he was elected the Mayor of Winston NC in
1900, serving as mayor until 1910. Upon the consolidation of Winston and Salem on May 12,
1913, Eaton was elected as the first mayor of the city we know today as Winston-Salem NC.
The School Year of 1891-1892 for Farmington Academy had a new principal by the
name of Leonard "Leon" Agustus Cash. Leon Cash had received his early education as a child at
the nearby Union Academy school.
Leon Cash was born June 6, 1866 in Davie County NC, the son of Dr. Leonard
Hamilton Cash, a prominent physician of the Smith Grove Community, and Sarah Jane Holman,
whose father, Isaac Holman, founded Holman's Crossroads (near the current Cana Road junction
with Highway 601). Leon Cash was married to Frances "Fannie" Hartsell, who was the music
teacher at the Academy.
Prior to his coming to Farmington in 1891, Leon Cash was the Assistant Principal
with Professor James F. Brower (an earlier principal at Farmington Academy) at the Rock Spring
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Seminary in Lincoln County NC. Professor Brower recommended Leon Cash for the position of
principal at the Academy in 1891; Brower also left the Rock Spring School to become the
headmaster at the Salem Boys School in Forsyth County NC.
This 1891 Fall Term for Farmington Academy began on Monday August 24, 1891
and ended on Thursday December 24, 1891, for an 80 day term. The Spring Term began on
January 4, 1892, ending on June 2, 1892.
During this School Year of 1891-1892, the Board of Trustees for Farmington
Academy were: Dr. James Washington Wiseman, Francis Marion Johnson, James Millys (or
Millus) Johnson (Vada Johnson's father), S.C. Rich, and Dr. William Gaston Johnson (another son
of George Wesley Johnson).
A copy of this year's brochure (1891-1892) gives us more insight into the operation of
the school. It states that the "Academy is a modern structure, nearly new, well arranged for
school work, with the nucleus of a good Library, owned by the school".
The brochure lists the tuitions as below:
1. First Steps at $1.00 per month.
2. Intermediate at $1.25 to 2.00 per month.
3. Advanced & Classical at $2.00 to 3.00 per month.
4. Music at $2.00 per month.
5. Boarding at about $8.00 per month, or rented rooms at $1.00 per month.
Remember the earlier mention of the Cash-Allen House on Farmington Road as a
"school dormitory"? In 1892, Leon Cash owned the house, and it may have still been used as a
dormitory; he and his wife may have been among the local families that boarded attendees of the
Academy.
The next record available for the FARMINGTON ACADEMY is for the School Year
of 1894-1895, with the Fall Term to begin on Tuesday 4 September 1894. The School expected a
full school and Leon Cash was still the Principal. Leon Cash continued to serve as Principal until
the School Year 1896-1897, when he was replaced by Miss Lucy Wilson Weathersbee.
Thomas "Tom" Hamilton Cash, the brother of Leon Cash, was the Assistant Principal
for this School Year of 1894-1895; the teachers were Mrs. Fannie Cash, Miss Jessie Chaffin, a
Mr. Williams, and assistant teacher Miss Julia Harding. Before coming to Farmington School,
Tom Cash was a teacher at the Mock's Church Community School in Davie County NC.
The brochure for the next School Year 1895-1896 is the last year for Leon and Tom
Cash at Farmington Academy; their teachers were Mrs. Fannie Cash as Music Teacher, Miss
Mattie Rich as Teacher of Art and Education, Miss Jessie Chaffin, a Mr. Williams and Miss Julia
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Harding. The Fall Term began on Monday August 19th, and ended on 20 December 1895; the
Spring Term was to begin on 30 December 1895, and end on 28 May 1896.
Listed below are the School's advertised qualities and courses taught for the School
Year 1895-1896:
1. The School was called a Thorough Preparatory School for boys and girls.
2. Educational Creed - converted to the Doctrine of the Trinity, mental development,
and to develop Christian character.
3. Conveniently located in a quiet part of the Town, built for $1,500.00.
4. Open-air arbor built in 1894, with a stage area closed on both ends.
5. Tuition Terms:
Primary - $1.00 Month
Intermediate-$1.25 to 1.75 month
Advanced & Classical-$2.00 to 3.00 month
Music-$2.00 month Art-$2.00 month
Elocution (Public Speaking)-$1.00 month
Admission Fee- 25 cents
6. Board available for $6.00 to 7.00 per calendar month
7. Study Courses; usual courses taught in high school and academies; preparation for
business; or entrance exams to college; courses to prepare for a teaching career.
8. Free access to a school owned Library
9. A literary society called "the Improvement Club", conducted by the students
Leon Cash had also served as the Superintendent of the Davie County Schools during
his tenure at the FARMINGTON ACADEMY. In 1897, he left Davie County NC to teach at
Salem Boys School in Winston NC, and his brother Tom Cash also left, and later became the
Superintendent of the Forsyth County School system.
For the next School Year 1896-1897 at FARMINGTON ACADEMY, Miss Lucy
Wilson Weathersbee is listed as the Principal, but she only served this one year. She left the
Academy to go to Yadkin College in the Town of Yadkin College, Davidson County NC. Miss
Weathersbee was replaced as Principal by Miss Jessie Chaffin (Mrs. A. M. McGlamery) for the
School Year of 18971898. It seems Miss Chaffin may have served as Principal until about 1901.
In 1901-1902, B. W. Stephens was the Principal of FARMINGTON ACADEMY,
with the following teachers: Miss Susie (Susan J.) Jones, Miss Victoria (Vickie) Brock, Miss Julia
Harding and J.L. Tatum. Both Miss Susie Jones and Miss Vickie Brock were former graduates of
FARMINGTON ACADEMY.
B.W. Stephens would serve as Principal until the 1906-1907 Fall Term. For his years
1903 through 1906, some teachers mentioned were Miss Susie J. Jones and Enos Calvin Smith.
This would be Miss Jones's last year as teacher at the Academy, she left after her marriage to
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teach at the CANA SCHOOL in Davie County.
Paul H. Nance is the next Principal of the Academy, and Mrs. Mabel Brock is a
teacher for this 1906-1907 School Year. The Fall Term began on Monday 20 August 1906; with
students being prepared for college and an active business life; good board rates were 25• per
day; the tuition rates per month were:
1. Primary at $1.00
2. Intermediate at $1.50
3. Advanced Common School at $2.00
4. High School at $2.50
This School Year of 1906-1907 is the first mention of the FARMINGTON
ACADEMY as a "HIGH SCHOOL". In 1907, North Carolina State Funds were being
appropriated for "HIGH SCHOOLS" in the counties, and also a "compulsory attendance rule" for
all students.
In 1907, FARMINGTON ACADEMY was one of nine schools operating in the
Farmington Township of Davie County NC. There are no records available for the Academy's
teacher pay scale, but in the 1906-1907 Public School system, teachers were averaging about
$100.00 per year salary. They were teaching for about a 4 month term of school; only about
$3.00 was being spent on each pupil's education in the Public Schools System.
The educational leaders of the TOWN OF FARMINGTON had been working
towards operating a "HIGH SCHOOL", and all their hard work and efforts culminated at the 1
July 1907 Davie County Board of Education meeting when they were appropriated the amount of
$250.00 from State Funds to use for the current School Year of 1908-1908.
At that time in 1907, the members of the Board of Education for Davie County were
Francis Marion Johnson, T. B. Bailey, and Albert Wilson Ellis; who met to discuss the
establishment of a HIGH SCHOOL by the citizens of FARMINGTON. Here are excerpts from
this meeting:
"A local tax district has been laid off and voted upon by the citizens of Farmington, to
establish a Public High School; the Board orders the said High School to be established, with a
appropriation of $250.00 towards supporting the current school year; the Trustees for this High
School were to be Dr. William Gaston Johnson to serve 2 years, G. B. Harding to serve 4 years,
and C. A. Hartman to serve 6 years; for the school in District No.7."
FARMINGTON ACADEMY was now operating the "First High School" in the
County of Davie NC.
A new Principal named Henry A. Doak would serve the school from the 1907-1908
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Term until the School Year of 1911-1912. Some of his teachers were Miss Eunice Helms, Miss
Dora E. Abernathy, and W. P. Henley.
Fred B. Yoder was the FARMINGTON ACADEMY'S Principal from 1912-1913
until the School Year of 1915-1916. Some of his teachers were Kate Brown, Helen Brown,
Bessie Gatts, and Cora Ballard.
About 1913, the taxpayers of Farmington, Cana, Fork Church, Advance and
Mocksville had levied special school taxes to conduct 6 months of longer school terms. The other
Davie County schools continued to operate on a 4 month term until about the 1920's.
Since 1907, school attendance had been compulsory; whereby the State of North
Carolina mandated "compulsory education" for all 8 to 12 year old children, requiring at least a 4
month term of school. This brought on the necessity for school systems to hire an "attendance
officer".
On 5 July 1915, according to the Board of Education minutes, the following were
appointed as the School Committee for the Farmington School: Frank H. Bahnson for 6 years, H.
Grady Rich for 4 years, and Samuel Vance Furches for 2 years. J. M. Bowden was appointed as
the Attendance Officer.
The available Business Directory records for Davie County end in the year of 1916,
the last year this school would be known as "FARMINGTON ACADEMY"; henceforth, it would
be called FARMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL.
On 26 September 1916, a notice in the Davie Record Newspaper stated that
"FARMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL WOULD BE TUITION FREE TO HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTS". This is the first mention of the name change for Farmington's School, though
classes would continue to be held in the Farmington Academy's wooden-frame building until a
new "brick construction" Schoolhouse could be built in 1919.
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FARMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL
{TUITION SCHOOL, 1916-1919}
The DAVIE RECORD article dated September 26, 1916 stated thusly:
"Farmington High School, Farmington NC, will open October 2nd, with a
strong faculty, and with an excellent school spirit in the community.
Tuition free to high school students. Board at reasonable rates in private
families. The health and moral tone of this community is good. All
inquiries will be cheerfully answered. A.H. Flowers, Principal. F. H.
Bahnson, Secretary".
A. H. Flowers would be the first principal of the first school called Farmington High
School, for the school year of 1916-1917, replacing Fred B. Yoder.
Mr. Flowers would only remain as principal for one more year. The "School
Directory of Davie County,Year 1917-1918" (Martin-Wall History Room,Davie County Library)
tells us that the School Committee for this year was F. H. Bahnson, H.G. Rich and E. L. Furches;
the attendance officer was Frank Clingman; A. H. Flowers,Principal, Teachers- Mary McMahan
and Gelene Ijames.
During this time period for education, Farmington High School was operating on
about 6 months terms, with the grades believed to be taught, first through the tenth grades. The
salary scales for tuition teachers in 1916 are not available, but the public school teachers were
only being paid about $25.00 per month, for a 4 month term.
The last year of classes held in the "old wooden building" was for 1918-1919, with
Miss Lura A. Scott as Principal, and teachers: Miss Julia Austin, and Miss Eva Smith.
In May 1919, the graduating class consisted of 5 students:
Ruby Armsworthy (Mauney), Leona Graham (Smoot), Clara James
(Howard), Early Smith, and Willie Taylor.
As of the fall opening for the school year of 1919-1920, the Farmington High School
would be a Public High School, with its classes to be held in a new "brick school building".
Efforts for this new endeavor became a reality in 1917 when the Farmington Special Tax District
No.7 passed a $3,000.00 bond issue for a new building.
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1919 FARMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL
NEW SCHOOL HOUSE
Another first in the Davie County's public education saga would again occur in
Farmington, with the construction of a new brick school-house. The citizens of Farmington
realized that even though the "Tuition School" format of their Farmington Academy offered its
students an excellent education, it also short-changed the less fortunate public school students of
the area.
Preliminary construction plans for this new school-house began to be realized on 2
April 1917. On that date, the Davie County Board of Education agreed to pay one-half of the
cost, as long as the cost didn't exceed $5,000.00, and provided that the Farmington Special Tax
District No.7 paid their one-half.
The Farmington Special Tax District No.7 had already passed a bond issue of
$3,000.00, which would be paid by special tax levies. This Tax District No.7 had been established
and voted upon earlier in July of 1907, when the community developed the concept to establish
the "first high school" in the County of Davie.
On 4 July 1917, the Davie County Board of Education estimated that a special tax
levy of 13• on one hundred dollars tax evaluation would operate the high school for 4 months.
The Board of Education also authorized the School Superintendent to borrow $2,500.00 from the
NC State Literary Fund for this new building at Farmington.
In 1917, the members of the Farmington School Committee were Frank H. Bahnson,
H. Grady Rich, and Lonnie L. Miller.
It would be almost 2 years later before the hard work and plans for this new school
building became an actuality. First the Davie County Commissioners had to prepare the execution
of the bonds, with the Davie County Board of Education advertising them. The bids were opened
in July 1917, but all were rejected. By 25 August 1917, the bid of R. A. Wilkinson of Le Grande
Ohio was accepted by the Board. A $3,000.00 bond was filed by the Board Treasurer J. L.
Holton for the handling of the funds. All that remained now was authorization to build which had
to be issued by the North Carolina State Legislature.
Finally, on 3 March 1919, Albert Wilson Ellis, Melver J. Hendricks, and T. Herbert
Nicolson were appointed as the Farmington School Building Committee. The Board of
Education authorized them to be in charge of the funds of $5,000.00, and to build the new brick
school-house. The bond of Melver J. Hendricks was approved as the Treasurer of the Building
Committee.
According to a 1965 "PLAT SHOWING FARMINGTON GRADED SCHOOL LOT
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AND LOCATION OF BUILDINGS ON THE PROPERTY" (Davie County Register of Deeds
Office), this new school-house was built on the same 1 1/2 acres plot as the old wooden school
house known as Farmington Academy (deed conveyed in 1881, but not recorded until 1908).
Additional land would be needed for this 1919 new school and gym, and according to
the above mentioned 1965 Plat, another 1 1/2 acres was acquired on 4 July 1919, being purchased
from the Junior Order United American Mechanics (J.O.U.A.M.), Farmington Council No. 179.
Eleven years earlier on 4 December 1908, Enos Calvin Smith and wife Thursa
Cordelia Smith sold 1 1/2 acres for $125.00 to J. M. White, Luke M. Furches, and Willie A.
Taylor, the Trustees of the J.O.U.A.M. Farmington Council No. 179 ( Davie County Register of
Deeds, Book 23, Page 132). On 4 July 1919, E. P. Walker, W. S. Douthit, and James Frank
Allen (Council Trustees) sold this same 1 1/2 acres to Albert Wilson Ellis (Chairman) and Peter
W. Hairston of the Davie County Board of Education, for the price of $252.50 ( Davie County
Register of Deeds, Book 25, Page 185). The 1919 Gymnasium Building was probably erected on
this plot of land.
According to the Davie Record Newspaper microfilm dated 31 May 1933, a new gym
building is mentioned, with its completion date as the Fall of 1933. (No Board Minutes were
found for this new Gym Building). This means that the 1919 Gym Building was replaced in 1933,
and would be the wooden Gym Building remembered today that also served as an Auditorium and
Lunch Room for about 20 years until the 1950's new construction project for a new Auditorium
and Cafeteria. The 1933 Gym Building was erected on the 1 1/2 acres of land purchased in 1919,
and after its demise, the land became the current (2007) "Walking Trail" at the Farmington
Community Center.
BUILDING THE SCHOOL HOUSE
The original construction for the 1919 Farmington High School consisted of a 2-story
brick school house and a one-story wood-frame gymnasium.
No records have been found to date in regard to the contractors, etc. on the actual
construction work on the new buildings. It must have been a "community effort" by the citizens
of the Farmington Special Tax District No.7. It is recorded in the Davie County Heritage Book
(1997, Article 583) that Hugh Brock, as a teenager, helped make the bricks that were used.
In 1919, the Davie County Public Schools opening date was November 18th, but the
new Farmington School was not yet ready for classes. Until completed, classes were held in the
wood-frame Farmington Academy Building. However, according to newspaper reports on 17
December 1919, the buildings were almost completed and school was expected to open with the
new year of 1920.
In October 1919, the Farmington Building Committee received additional funds of
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$855.00 from the Board of Education, which reimbursed them $255.00 for the additional land
purchase of 1 1/2 acres, and $700.00 to be used to "complete and enclose the building".
The wood-frame Farmington Academy building was also being dismantled during the
process of construction on the brick building. The lumber, etc. was sold with the proceeds turned
over to the School Building Committee Treasurer, Melver J. Hendricks, to be used on finishing
the new brick building.
The new brick Farmington High School finally opened in January 1920, but basically,
only the first floor level was ready for classes.
During the Spring of 1920, the Farmington School Committee made improvements on
the school grounds: a playground area, rock walls, walkways, and entrance pillars, etc.
By April 1921, the building still had not been completed, so the Board of Education
advertised for bids for its completion.
On 2 May 1921, the contract to complete the Farmington High School Building was
awarded to T. Herbert Nicholson of Farmington, in the amount of $2,135.00.
Most of the work needed for the repairs and replacements of the earlier construction
were:
1. finish the 2 stair towers and install banisters
2. replace the wooden porches with metal and concrete floors
3. finish the inside of the 2nd story
4. install floors, etc. in the auditorium and stage area upstairs
5. paint all inside and outside wood with 3 coats
On 27 July 1921, it was reported that the school house building was complete except
for the seats in the auditorium.
The seats were finally installed in July 1923 by Charles Alexander Hartman, at the
cost of $175.00. A partition was also installed in the auditorium at the cost of $50.00 by T.
Herbert Nicholson.
By now in 1923, the total cost of the 1919 new school-house exceeded the original
estimate of $5,000.00 by about $2,600.00.
CONSOLIDATION
On 1 March 1920, the Davie County Board of Education decided on a policy for the
consolidation of several local schools into one school for several communities of the County. The
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students would be transported to the Farmington School by trucks (later called buses) that the
Board of Education would purchase and operate.
Each school district in the County would be responsible for erecting a school house,
which Farmington District No.7 had already done. The new Consolidated Schools would operate
on an eight-month term.
According to the School Board Minutes, on 4 April 1921 the Farmington Special Tax
District lines were thusly:
Begin at a point on Dutchman's Creek where the Farmington and Smith
Grove Districts join, then east to the Yadkin River, then north with the
river to the Yadkin County line, then east with the Yadkin River to where
the Clarksville Township touches the Yadkin County line, the south with
Clarksville's line to Dutchman's Creek, then southeast with said creek to
the Cana School District line, then with the Cana line back to the creek
and with said creek to the beginning; containing the Farmington, Yadkin
Valley, and Pino School Districts.
Farmington's election for consolidation on Saturday Mar~h 19, 1921 had already
carried 139 for, and 26 against. It was ordered that the rate of special tax in the Consolidated
Farmington District be 20• on one hundred dollars value of property, and 6• on poll taxes.
In 1921, the Farmington School Committee members were: Thomas Hampton
Redmon for 3 years; Lonnie L. Miller for 2 years; and William Stephen Douthit for 1 year.
Farmington High School was the first to receive 2 Ford Model A trucks to be used as
school buses to transport children living about 1 1/2 miles from the school.
The County Board of Education ordered 2 Ford Trucks at the total cost of $2,000.00
on 4 July 1921 from Mr. C. C. Sanford of Sanford Motors in Mocksville NC. They were to
include 1 extra tire for each bus.
Though the School Board purchased the vehicles, the school was responsible for the
gas, oil, care, and repairs as necessary. In October 1921, the County also constructed a Garage at
the Farmington High School to house the trucks. The original building was 18 feet by 20 feet, 12
feet high at the front-9 feet high at back, floored with a galvanized tin roof. Later in 1923, the
building was enlarged. This Garage was used at Farmington School until 1926 when the Board of
Education assumed the management of all county school buses.
Bus drivers in 1921 were paid $1.00 per day. The bus routes for the Farmington
buses were laid off in October of 1921 by the School Board Committee of E. P. Bradley
(Secretary of the Board) and J. W. Etchinson (Board Member). The buses were delivered on 3
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October 1921. Later in 1923, Sanford Motors Company provided chairs for the 2 school trucks
(buses) at the cost of $52.50.
In September 1923, the Board of Education ordered the students of Pino School and
Yadkin Valley School to attend the Farmington Consolidated School, being transported by the
buses.
On 7 July 1924, 5 GMC trucks with Oxford bodies, 16 feet long with 2 long-side
seats and 6 center seats, painted, lettered, with Oldham Cushion tires were ordered from Sanford
Motor Company in Mocksville NC for $2,450.00 each. The original 2 Ford Truck chasses at
Farmington were traded in at $200.00 each, with Sanford Motor Co. to provide 2 new chasses for
the bodies of the old trucks, do necessary repairs, and new paint jobs.
By July 1924, the Farmington School Committee was Thomas Hampton Redmon,
William A. Taylor, and Luke Marsh Furches.
In 1931, another consolidation of schools was authorized by the Davie County Board
of Education. The students of the White's School on Eaton's Church Road would now attend the
Farmington High School.
IMPROVEMENTS, ADDITIONS
In the school year of 1921-1922, the first grade students at Farmington High School
remembered the water pump in the school yard, the "big" spacious rooms, and the outdoor toilets.
The "privies" or "outdoor toilets" for the County Board of Education had been
contracted to J. A. Sofley in October 1921. He charged $28.00 for a toilet with hole, or $25.00
for one without the hole.
By April 1923, the County Board of Education required "sanitary privies" to be
constructed for Farmington School. The specifications were for 10 ft. x 6 ft. cement vaults at the
cost of $80.00 each. On 8 October 1923, T. Herbert Nicholson was awarded the contract for
$200.00 to build the cement toilets. Later in 1938, the WPA (Works Progress Administration)
built a "sewerage system plant", consisting of a concrete septic tank and cesspool for the
Farmington School.
Not much information is known about the water system for the school. Current
students remember the water tank that was located next to the still existing "pump-house"
building. The Model XZ well pump was called a Sucker Rod Pump, manufactured by the F.E.
Myers & Brother Company of Ashland Ohio, and it is still in the existing pump-house in 2007.
It is assumed that the early 1919 lighting system for the classrooms, etc. was either
gas or kerosene lamps. In October of 1921, the Allis Chalmers Community Lighting Plant for the
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Town of Farmington was in the planning stages, and by November 1921 the electrical power lines
were being installed. On 7 December 1921, electrical power lights were available to the town and
its school. The name of the power company was the Farmington Electric Light Company.
In September 1924, the water at Farmington School was ordered to be examined for
any abnormalities before the beginning of the school term. All attending students who had not
taken the typhoid vaccine within the past 3 years, would receive a vaccination by the County
Physician on the first day of attendance.
It is assumed that the early Farmington High School used wood-stoves for heat. Some
former students remember the pot-bellied wood stoves in the Gymnasium and Ag Buildings, with
wood supplied by parents or grandparents.
By July 1932, coal was being used as a source of fuel. Home Ice and Fuel Company
of Spencer NC bid $5.26 per ton, delivered to the bins at the school. Their bid was accepted on
30 July 1932.
In October 1940, the County Board of Education decided a "low pressure steam
heating plant" was needed in order to maintain a 6 month school term at Farmington School. The
Noland Company of Winston-Salem NC in November 1940 submitted the low bid of $2,219.68
for the heating plant, with C. C. Sanford & Sons of Mocksville NC to install the heating materials
in the classrooms for the bid of $240.00. The amount of $2,500.00 was borrowed from the State
Literary Fund to pay for it. The work was completed over the Thanksgiving school holidays.
In 1925. Farmington High School would need another classroom and a larger library.
The earlier Library had been housed on the second floor of the school, in the area of the upstairs
Auditorium.
On 3 August 1925, the specifications for this new building to house the Laboratory
and Library were thusly:
15 ft. x 26 ft. building with 10 ft. roof pitch, with a partition divider;
wood frame and weather boarded; stove flue, 2 openings; shelving for no
less than 600 books; tongue and groove flooring; galvanized roof; 2
outside doors, 1 in the partition; 2 10 ft. x 12 ft. windows in each room.
On 17 August 1925, the contract for the Lab & Library was awarded to the low
bidder Fred R. Lakey of Farmington. Mr. Lakey completed the building in October 1925 and was
paid his contract amount of $242.50. This building was located just south of the Ag Building
(existing in 2007). In the 1940's Inventory of Buildings at Farmington School referred to this
building as the "Music Building".
On 5 April 1926, Lonnie L. Miller and Frank Bahnson were appointed to the
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Farmington School District Committee. Mr. Bahnson was to fill out the term of Thomas H.
Redmon. Then, on 4 April 1927,Mr. Bahnson was again approved as a committeeman.
Funds of $120.00 were appropriated to the Farmington School on 31 May 1926 for
the services of a janitor.
On 3 October 1927, the County Board of Education approved the amount of $667.58
for improvements at the School: physics $250.00; tables $10.00; chairs $22.80; World Book
$69.90; Book cases $42.48; repairs $5.50; paint $16.90; library books $250.00. This expenditure
was to furnish the Lab and Library Building built in 1925.
Due to the death of Grady Rich, John Frank Johnson was appointed in his place on
the Farmington School Committee, #2 District. On 4 April 1929, Lonnie L. Miller was appointed
for a 3 year term; in April 1930, Frank H. Bahnson was appointed again to committee; and on 6
April 1931, S. Wade Furches was appointed to the school committee.
In July of 1930, the special tax rate for Farmington School District No.2 was 19• per
$100.00 value of property.
By 1932 the Farmington High School was in dire need of several more classrooms. A
Committee of Board of Education Members (Peter Hairston, J.B. Johnstone, and I.P. Graham)
made an inspection of the School on 18 July 1932. Their recommendation was to build an
addition of 2 or 3 rooms to the original 1919 building.
Barber & Yoe, Architects of Salisbury NC drew the plans and specifications. The
Board of Education advertised for bids and on 30 July 1932, and the bids were revealed as
follows:
Mooney & Hendrix, Mocksville NC, $3,700.00 D. G. Grubbs, Mocksville NC,
$4,150.00 Fowler-Jones,Winston-Salem NC, $3,990.00 L. S. Bradshaw,Salisbury NC, $4,895.00
Wilson Brothers,Spencer NC, $4,231.00
The 3 low bidders were asked to change their bids thusly:
1. State the amount to delete all basement work (storage room, steps,
windows, etc.)
2. State the amount if they used standard brick on all newnew brick work,
in lieu of matching the existing brick.
Mooney & Hendrix submitted a revised bid of $2,710.00, D. G. Grubbs for
$3,100.00, and Fowler-Jones for $3,040.00. The revised bid of Mooney & Hendrix was accepted
at $2,710.00 less $44.80 for blackboards that the Board of Education would furnish.
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About 5 years later in 1938, it was determined that the Farmington High School
required the following improvements:
1. 2 toilet rooms, fully equipped
2. water supply and electrical wiring of the entire building
These improvements cost $4,000.00, with the money borrowed from the State
Literary Fund by the Davie County Board of Education. This is another project that benefitted
greatly from work done at the school by the WPA (Works Progress Administration).
On 15 April 1939, the Farmington School Committee consisted of William Batson
Allen, Oscar R. Allen, and John Sparks. On 1 May 1939, Samuel Wade Furches replaced William
Batson Allen, who had moved to the Smith Grove School District.
The Farmington School Committee on 7 April 1941 was Samuel Wade Furches,
Vernon Miller and Burr Coley Brock, Sr. These members were still serving in 1945.
On 21 July 1941, more improvements were needed at the Farmington School, in order
to maintain their current 6 month term of classes:
1. Electrical wiring of the amount of $800.00
2. A Vocational Shop for $1,500.00
No other information was found for these 2 improvements, though we know the
Ag/Shop Building still exists today in 2007. Some remembrances state that this project may have
also been done by the WPA. On 4 April 1949, the Board of Education approved plans for the
construction of additional shop space at the Farmington High School.
As early as September 1945, Farmington High School had requested the Board of
Education to consider a new Auditorium and Classrooms Building. No action on this request
would be taken by the County Board of Education until about 1948.
The Farmington School Committee recognized the many needs to be addressed in
order to bring Farmington Consolidated High School up to its standards as a leader of education
in Davie County: (1) had more teachers than classrooms, 12 rooms but 13 teachers; (2) current
classrooms inadequate and crowded; (3) the Gymnasium Building built in 1933 also served as the
school's Auditorium and a small Cafeteria; (4) had problems with unsanitary conditions created by
the presence of the septic tank cesspool just outside the Cafeteria in the Gym Building; (5) toilet
facilities were inadequate for the size of the student body; and (6) had inadequate home
economics facilities.
The Board of Education acted on 1 December 1947, addressing the need to enlarge
and improve the school buildings of Mocksville Elementary School, Davie County Training
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School, Cooleemee High School, William R. Davie Elementary School, Cooleemee Elementary
School and Farmington High School. They requested $800,000.00 of School Building Bonds
from the Davie County Commissioners on 1 December 1947. The Farmington High School's
estimated amount was $61,000.00 for the construction and $6,750.00 for equipment, for an
Auditorium Building including a Lunch Room, Bathroom, Home Economics Laboratory, and an
Office.
On 3 May 1948, the Board of Education met with the Davie County Commissioners
who passed the bond order of $800,000.00. This was subject to the vote of the Farmington
citizens. At the School Bond Issue vote held on 20 July 1948, Farmington passed the issue "175
For" and "25 Against". Newspaper reports stated that the successful vote was due to the hard
work of the Farmington School Committee (Burr C. Brock, C. B. Seats, and C.H. McMahan), the
Farmington Parents Teachers Association (P. T. A.), Principal Ralph J. Smitherman, and the
teachers of Farmington High School.
John R. Hartlege of Salisbury NC was chosen by the Board of Education as the
Architect for the school bonds construction work. The time line for the beginning of the
construction was originally set for 1 March 1949; however, due to the many delays on the part of
the Architect (at one time the Board even considered replacing Mr. Hartlege) the blueprints and
plans were not ready for the Farmington Auditorium Project until about 5 March 1949.
Even then, when the plans were presented to the Board, they rejected them. This was
due to the fact that the Architectural renderings of the Farmington Auditorium Building placed
the Lunch Room and Home Economics Lab in a basement location, with the walls extending 7 1/2
feet into the ground. The ground in this area close to the existing school house building, was
plagued with a " watery underground", not suitable for a basement.
This "basement dilemma" was solved by Samuel Wade Furches (Board of Education
Member) who suggested that the location of the Auditorium Building be moved to the School's
Playground north of the Farmington 1919 school house location, which is where the Auditorium
currently stands today in 2007.
Additional land, 100 ft. road frontage-8/10th of an acre, was deeded on 9 June 1949,
for $1,000.00, from G. H. Smith and wife Bertice H. Smith. This was to increase the Playground
area that would be taken by the new construction.
(Davie County Register of Deeds, Book 49, Page 193)
The Playground area of 3 acres had been deeded on 12 March 1936 by Mrs. Cordelia
Smith (widow) to the County Board of Education for the amount of $437.50.
(Davie County Register of Deeds, Book 35, Page 500)
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On 11 June 1949, the Board of Education ordered 100 bleachers for the Farmington
Gym Building. Earlier, the Gym's tin roof had been replaced.
Finally, on 6 July 1949, the general contract for the construction of the Farmington
Auditorium Building and Classrooms was awarded to Herman-Sipe Construction Company of
Conover NC, at the sum of $51,640.00, with a time limit for construction completion at 90 days.
The cost of the heating, plumbing, electrical, and engineering> services brought the total cost near
the $61,100.00 estimate of 1947. A new Boiler Room was added but that cost was not found in
the Board minutes.
On 6 September 1949, Mrs. Vernon Miller was appointed by the Board of Education
as the Treasurer at Farmington High School to handle the construction funds, etc..
The Davie County Board of Education Minutes of 28 March 1950, state that the
Auditorium/Lunch Room/ Home Ec Department work at Farmington High School was complete.
The Auditorium would seat 480 people, and included dressing rooms, stage
equipment, a balcony room for audio visual education, and an office in the rear of the building.
Adjoining the building at the rear to one side was the Home Economics Lab built
according to State of North Carolina specifications. There were 3 unit kitchens with sinks and
cabinets; 3 tables with individual pupil tray space; 2 electric and 1 gas range; 5 sewing machines
(3 electric, 2 pedal-type); 25 chairs; 4 kitchen work tables, built-in ironing board; lots of storage;
and toilet facilities.
The Cafeteria adjoining the Horne Ec Lab was very modern and well-equipped. It
had Formica-top tables with chairs to seat 150 people at one time; 1 gas range; 3 work tables; and
a 45 cu. ft. refrigerator.
Also included in the "bond issue work" was a steam central heating system that
provided steam heat to all classrooms. The existing toilet facilities were re-worked with new
equipment installed, and the Science Lab was also reworked. The old wooden water tanks were
replaced by a new metal tank to increase the water facilities, and the school's playground was
improved.
The "bond issue" improvements seemed to boost the school's spirit as it is reported
that the 1950-1951 attendance was at 96% of a total enrollment of 302 students.
An average of 180 students daily would eat in the School Cafeteria, managed by Mrs.
B.G. O'Brien. Lunch cost 20• per day. When the old cafeteria was in the Gym Building, several
former students of the 1940's remember buying a bowl of liquid soup for 5•, but if you could
afford the lunch meal, it would be either 10• or 15•. In March 1948, the lunchroom attendance
dropped about 50% due to the withdrawal of the Federal Assistance Program for the poor
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students.
In 1955, Ray Daniels received the contract to build the covered walkways going from
the School-house Building over to the Auditorium Building.
In 1951, the Farmington School Committee members were C.B. Seats, Odell James,
and Joe Langston, serving a 2 year term. C.B. Seats, Odell James, and Joe Langston were still
serving in 1954 and 1955. J. W. Seats, Johnnie Sparks, and Odell James served as of 1 April
1957.
CONSOLIDATION AGAIN
The year of 1954 again brought about the issue of consolidation, whereby 200 citizens
representing all areas of Davie County voted to consolidate the 4 existing high schools
(Cooleemee, Mocksville, Shady Grove, and Farmington) into one high school for the entire
county.
Davie County High School as we know it today in 2007 was the result of this 1954
consolidation. The new high school building was erected on a 30 acre site south of the Town of
Mocksville on Highway 601. It opened in the Fall of 1956.
The School Year of 1956-1957 left Farmington School as only an Elementary School
Graded facility.
About 11 years later in 1968 the "consolidation of schools, issue arose again. Locally,
it involved the elementary grades of Smith Grove Elementary and Farmington Elementary School,
as they were now to be consolidated into just one school facility.
School Bonds of $2,495,000.00 were voted in to build 3 new consolidated schools.
In 1970, this new consolidated school in the Farmington Precinct opened, known as Pinebrook
Elementary School for grades 1 through 8.
The last elementary classes held at the Farmington Elementary School were for the
School Year of 1969-1970. By 1972, the "old original 1919 Classroom Building" was in the
process of being demolished.
The Auditorium Building, the Pump House Building, and the Shops/Ag Building are
all that still stand in 2007 on the 7.04 acre tract once known as Farmington School. Since 1971,
this property has been the home of the Farmington Community Center.
The Wooden-frame Gym Building was saved in 1972 to become the home of the
program called "Head Start", but several years ago it was declared unsafe and torn down, with the
land now used as the "Community Walking Trail".
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STUDENTS OF FARMINGTON ACADEMY, 1882 - 1908
James “Jim” Frank Allen
John Jones Allen
Mary Susan Allen
Cora B. Athan
Francis “Frank” Henry
Bahnson
Hal Bahnson
Martha “Mattie” Johnson
Bahnson
Sarah Bahnson
J. rush Bassett
Bill Brock
Burr Brock
Matthew L. Brock
Minnie Brock
Victoria “Vickie” Brock
William “Willie” E. Brock
Kate Brown
Margaret Brown
Bill Brunt
Pansy Brunt
William R. Burton
Dora L. Clark
M. Lula Clark
W.P. Clingman
H.L. “Bob” Cook
Claudius F. Cuthrell
Ernest M. Cuthrell
Frank Douthit
Hamlin Douthit
James “Jimmie” Douthit
Mamie Douthit
Florence Eaton
William T. Eaton
Flora Ellis
Mabel Ellis
Sally Minn Ellis
G.G. Finch
Ben Foster
Esther Foster
Kelly Foster
Viola Foster
? Furches
Ophelia Gordon
Pearl Gordon
Vera Gordon
Samuel Asbury Harding
Guy Hartman
Margie Hartman
Mary Nell Hartman
Pattie F. Hartman
Camilla James
Mentora Jarvis
Viola Jarvis
Susan “Susie” J. Jones
Annie Johnson
Lena Johnson
Vada Johnson
Wesley Johnson
Chalmers L. Kimbrough
Allie Long
Frank Long
Fletcher R. McMahan
Mary Myers
Lizzie Nicholson
T. Herbert Nicholson
Sallie B. Redmon
Lila J. Redmon
? Rich
Joe Hampton Rich
Martha “Mattie” Rich
Charles F. Sheek
Ben Smith
C. Reid Smith
Lizzie Smith
Mary Luna Smith
Maude Smith
Nan Smith
Paul Smith
Zeb Smith
Virgil E. Swaim
Henry Vestal
Lila Vestal
Paul Vestal
Sally Vogler
Emma Ward
Laura Ward
William W. Ward
Oliver Lafayette Williams
NOT A COMPLETE
LIST, VERY FEW
RECORDS AVAILABLE.
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STUDENTS OF FARMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL, 1911 - 1970
Kenneth Noel Absher
Marie Absher
Lillian Adams
Margaret Adams
Maude Adams
Paul Adams
Shirley Adams
Charles Randolph “Randy”
Alexander
Debbie Alexander
Benny David Allen
Betty Lee Allen
Beulah “Boots Lee Allen
Billy George Allen
Bobby Gene Allen (1936)
Bobby Gene Allen (1950)
Brenda Faye Allen
Carolyn Ann Allen
Clarence “Red” Weir Allen
Donald Dewey Allen
Donnell Allen
Dorothy Mae Allen
Eddie Dean Allen
Ella Allen
Elmer Gray Allen (1932)
Elmer Gray Allen (1941)
Ethel Allen
Flora Allen
Francis Eugene “Sonny”
Allen
Gilmer Ray Allen
Grady Wilson Allen (1911)
Grady Wilson “G.W.” Allen
Grover Allen
Herman C. Allen
Hazel Allen
Jacob Franklin “Jake” Allen
Jessie Lea Allen
Jimmy Ray Allen
John Gray Allen
Katherine Allen
Leo Gray Allen
Lillian Grey Allen
Lillian Joyce Allen
Lloyd Grant
Margaret Ellen Allen
Martha Louise Allen
Martha Reese Allen
Mary Katheryn Allen
Mildred Estelle Allen
Nola Frances Allen
Norman Lee
Orpha Louise Allen
Patsy Allen
Peggy Sue Allen
Reba Mae Allen
Ronald Paul Allen
Samuel Asbury Allen
Thellia Gertrude Allen
William Heber Allen
William Junior Allen
Woodrow Allen
Classel Anderson
Eugene Anderson
Faye Anderson
Gerald Anderson
James Anderson
Linda Gail Anderson
Lorene Anderson
Lucille Anderson
Thelma Anderson
Margaret Ann Angell
Ellen Armsworthy
Ruby Armsworthy
Howard Athan
Ada Atkinson
Frances “Pan” Atkinson
Willie Atkinson
Charles “Charlie” Bahnson
Frank Bahnson
Helen Bahnson
Jane Amanda Bahnson
Sylvia Bailey
Betty June Baity
Bill Baity
Clara Mae Baity
Fannie Belle Baity
Flake Baity
Frances Henrie Baity
Gaye Nell Baity
James Baity
James Wesley Baity
Jerry Harding Baity
Kenneth Baity
Leon Baity
Lydia Baity
Mary Baity
Mary Eliza Baity
Mary Katherine Baity
Nelly Baity
Pansy Baity
Roby Lee Baity
William Baity
Mabel Baker
Gale Barlowe
Sandra Barlowe
Cecil Beaman
Emma Beaman
Jim Beaman
Christina Beauchamp
Phillip Beauchamp
Theolene Beauchamp
Annie Mae Beck
Billy Ray Beck
Dorothy Mae Beck
Edith Beck
Edith Mae Beck
Edward Lee Beck
Eula Mae Beck
Grady Lewis Beck
Joyce Beck
Nellie Mae Beck
Peggy Anne Beck
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Stacy Beck
Sylvia Beck
W.A. Beck
Wayne Beck
William Robert “Bob” Beck
Willie Beck
Sandra Gail Bennett
Frances Binkley
Alec Blake
Annie Blake
Charlie Blake
Clinton Blake
Eva Blake
Frank Blake
Herbert Blake
James Blake
Joseph Moses Blake
Laura Lee Blake
Miller Blake, Jr.
Norman Blake
Roy Blake
Shirley Ann Blake
Carol Bledsoe
Helen Bledsoe
Kathy Bledsoe
Ann Boger
Bobbie Boger
Brenda Boger
Carolyn Boger
Charles Ray Boger
Edith Boger
Emily Ruth Boger
Ethel Boger
Harold Boger
Howard Boger
Hubert Samuel Boger
Jim Boger
Johnny Charles Boger
Juanita E. Boger
Linda Boger
Mary Frances Boger
Martha Boger
Nancy Boger
Odell Alfred Boger
Pauline Boger
Peggy Ann Boger
Sheek Boger
Shirley Boger
Virginia Boger
Billy Booe
Billy Wayne Booe
Lewis Booe
Margaret Booe
Nancy Camilla Booe
Pearlene Booe
Vernon Booe
Wanda Lee Booe
Wilma Booe
Adelaide Bowden
Lorene Bowden
Boyce Bowles
Charles Bowles
Cletus Bowles
David Bowles
Jo Ann Bowles
Kenneth Gray Bowles
Linda Sue Bowles
Linden Bowles
Mary Kathryn Bowles
Mozelle Bowles
Ruby Bowles
Sallie Bowles
Sanford Bowles
Wilson Bowles
Aaron Bracken
Beatrice Bracken
John Robert Bracken
Faye Brannon
Sherrill Kermit Brinkley
Billy Brock
Burr Coley Brock, Sr.
Burr Coley Brock, Jr.
Cornelia Brock
Eleanor Caroline Brock
Emma Sue Brock
Frances Brock
James Enoch Brock
James Hugh Brock
James Moses Brock
John Brock
John Tabor Brock
Margaret Jo Brock
Mary Elizabeth Brock
Richard “Rick” Joseph
Brock
Rufus Leo Brock
William “Wee” Laurie
Brock
Zelma Brock
Margaret Brown
Ann Burgess
Diane Burgess
Gary Burgess
Linda Burgess
Betty Busiek
Don Busiek
Joe Busiek
Dressa Campbell
Morey Joe Campbell
Scottie Campbell
Betty Maureen “Tooter”
Carter
Charlotte Carter
Clarence “Tom” Carter
Erma Carter
Harold Lee “Sonny” Carter
Jimmy Roger Carter
Joe Thomas Carter
Lassie Mae “Squeeky”
Carter
Lawrence Carater
Magdalene Carter
Mary Ann “Polly” Carter
Richard Lee Carter
Anne Caudle
Billy Jack Caudle
Dorothy Caudle
Evelyn Grey Caudle
Glenn Caudle
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Glenn Allen Caudle
James Charles Caudle
James E. Caudle
John Henry Caudle
Lelia Mae Caudle
Lucille Caudle
Patricia Ann Caudle
Patty Sue Caudle
Robert Lee Caudle
Clarence Charles
Hazel Charles
Lawrence Charles
Lonnie Charles
Ruby Charles
Angell Cline
Dottie Cline
Flake Rupard Cline
Marion Sanford Cline
Nora Mae Cline
Patsy Lou Cline
Peggy Sue Cline
Charlene Clontz
Peggy Coe
Hilmer Collette
Jack Collier
Helen Collins
Mildred Conner
Curtis Cook
Gladys Cook
Lewis Kenneth Cope
Ann Elizabeth Cornatzer
Billy Cornatzer
Clinton Cornatzer
Eugene Cornatzer
Frankie Katherine Cornatzer
Bonnie Rose Cornelison
Peggy Cornelison
Howard Cox
Brenda Cranfill
Mary Lou Cranfill
Sherrill Cranfill
Mary Craver
Annie Clair Davis
Donnie Davis
Elaine Davis
Gladys Davis
Janet Louise Davis
John Wes Davis
Johnny Davis
Larry Davis
Louise Davis
Martha Ann Davis
Mattye Lou Davis
Myra Jane Davis
Peggy Ann Davis
Robert “Bobby” Eugene
Davis
Willie Davis
Willis Davis
Winifred Davis
Elizabeth Deese
Ray Deese, Jr.
Robert “Bobby” Gray Dill
Alice Dixon
Beulah Dixon
Howard Dixon
Lamar Dixon
O’Brien Dixon
Christine Doby
Alice Douthit
Franklin Douthit
Henry Douthit
J.W. Douthit
Joseph Douthit
Mary Ada Douthit
Mary Ruth Douthit
Ruth Douthit
Vance Douthit
William Monroe Draughn
Betsy Driver
Betty Driver
Bonnie Hope Driver
Bruce Driver
Clarence Driver
Harry Kenneth Driver
Hope Driver
Mary Nell Driver
O.E. Driver, Jr.
Thelma Driver
Dean Dull
DeWilla Dull
Frances Dull
Gene Dull
Harvey Dull
Joe Dull
Linda Dull
Mildred Dull
Peggy Ann Dull
Poe Dull
Roger Dull
Sallie Fay Dull
Sara Marlene Dull
Susie F. Dull
Tillman Dull
Vernon McKinley Dull
Vestal Dull
Wade Dull
Donna Dunn
Edna Dunn
Elmer Dunn
Hollaway Dunn
Joseph Dunn
Marjorie Dunn
Ollie Dunn
Pauline Dunn
Vida Creola Dunn
William “Bill” Dunn
Jerry Dwiggins
Sue Dwiggins
Alpha Eaton
Carolyn Eaton
Charles Franklin Eaton
Janice Eaton
Sarah Ruth Eaton
William Clarence Eaton
David Roy Edwards
Wake “Bill” Edwards
Ben Ellis
Billy Ellis
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Eugene Ellis
Frances Ellis
Francis Reed Ellis
Gilmer Ellis
Johnsie Ellis
Judy Ellis
Luther Ellis
Mary Louise Ellis
Myra Davis Ellis
Nancy Carol Ellis
Patsy Ellis
Robert Ellis
Ruth Ellis
William Albert Ellis
Clarence Elmore
David Richard Elmore
Linda Ann Elmore
Cleo Essic
David Nell Essic
Francis Essic
James Essic
James E. “Chip” Essic
Lelia Ann Essic
Margie Essic
Mary Ellen Essic
Donald Rayford Evans
Phyllis Evans
Ervin Faircloth
Annie Lois “Polly” Ferebee
Billie Ferebee
Catherine Ferebee
Elizabeth Ferebee
John F. Ferebee
John Monroe Ferebee
Thomas Ferebee
Helen Flowe
Franklin Fortner, Jr.
Alvin Foster
Blanche Foster
Clayton Foster
Donald Foster
Eva Foster
Glen Foster
Glenn Foster
Guy Foster
Helen Elizabeth Foster
James Thomas Foster
John Foster
Juanita Foster
Junius “Junie” Foster
Leon Foster
Mary Boad Foster
Mary Edna Foster
Minnie Mae Foster
Nola Jane Foster
Robert Foster
Sherman Foster
Taylor Foster
Hattie Freeman
Paul Freeman
Conrad Frye
Annie Lois Furches
Burke Furches
Douthit Lawrence Furches
Duke Kimbrough Furches
Fred Furches
Gwyndolen Furches
Henry Furches
Jean Furches
John David Furches
John Frank Furches
Julia Furches
Martha Furches
Martha Furches (1930
grad)
McGuire “Crockett”
Furches
Nancy Furches
Norma Lewis Furches
Robert Furches
Robert “Bob Gray Furches
Sam Furches
Sara Louise Furches
Tommy Furches
Vashti Furches
Virginia Furches
Will Furches
Beavey Lella Gaither
Clay Gaither
Janet Gaither
Johnny Gaither
Shirley Gaither
Ella Mae Gentle
John Henry Gentle
Roselene Gentle
Wayne Gentle
Corrina Gillespie
Norris Godbey
Mary Godfrey
Robert Godfrey
Linda Goss
Frank Gough
Garnette Gough
Peggy Mae Gough
Shirley Gough
Elizabeth Graham
Gilmer Graham
Leona Graham
Ray Graham
Libby Graves
Harold Earle Greer
Bobby Gene Gregory
Butch Gregory
Clausell Gregory
David Gregory
David Franklin Gregory
Donald Wayne Gregory
Edward Gregory
Elwood Gregory
Gerladine Gregory
Helen Gregory
James Harold “Bub”
Gregory
Jo Anne Gregory
Larry Burton Gregory
Lawrence Gregory
Lula Gladys Gregory
Marjorie Gregory
Melvin Gregory
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Edna Griffith
Gaither Griffith
Jack Griffith
Mary Griffith
Virginia Griffith
Walter Griffith
Diana Groce
Gary Wade Groce
Jimmy Groce
Olean Groce
Richard Earl Groce
Steve Dale Gunter
Oralene Hagler
Carroll Hanes
Charlie Hanes
Jerry Hanes
Kenneth Hanes
Leonard Hanes, Jr.
Linda Ann Hanes
Louise Hanes
Lyndol Hanes
Mary Ruth Hanes
Mary Susan Hanes
Rachel Hanes
Ralph Hanes
Shirley Hanes
Willie Hanes
Ann Harding
Charles Harding
Felix Harding
Grady Harding
Joseph Henry Harding
Katherine Harding
Martha Harding
Nancy Elizabeth Harding
Ray Harding
Ruth Harding
Speer Harding
Thelma Harding
Joe Hardy
Isabelle Harkey
Joe Carr Harpe
Joseph Harpe
Kenneth Reavis Harpe
La Vada Harpe
Marcellus Harpe
Margaret Harpe
Martha Harpe
Mary Harpe
Miriam Harpe
Patrician Ann Harpe
Donald Alton Harris
Faye Harris
Judy Ann Harris
Margie Harris
Ruby Harris
Charles Hartman
Mary Nell Hartman
Dorothy Hauser
Eugene Hauser
Frances Hauser
Frances Louise Hauser
Hazel Hauser
Henry Hauser
John Reid Hauser
Mattie Hauser
Pansy Hauser
Paul Hauser
Pauline Hauser
Ruby Evola Hauser
Lawson Henderson
Grace Hendricks
Harry Hendricks
Melvarine Hendricks
Patsy Hendricks
Phillip Hendricks
Ray Hendricks
Sarah Nettie Hendricks
Wade Hendricks
Ray Hendrix
Elizabeth Jane Hepler
Eula Jean Hepler
Lonnie Gray Hepler
Robert Lee Hepler
Gayle Hicks
Bernice Hilton
Betty Hobson
Bonson Hobson
Lorene Hockaday
Sallie Ruth Hockaday
Wilbur Hockaday
James Hoffman
Myrlie Lou Hollomon
Lonnie Horne
Calvin Howard
Cornelia Howard
Edith Christine Howard
George Wesley Howard
J. Alma Howard
Jimmy Howard
Mary Howard
Ruth Howard
Ruth Ellis Howard
Vernon Howard
Virginia Howard
Belle Tatum Howell
Coleen Howell
Ezra L. “Zeke” Howell
Geneva Howell
Harley Howell
Holt Howell
Hope Howell
Samuel Wesley Howell
Thomas Howell
Thurman Howell
Woodrow Howell
Linda Hudspeth
Dean Hunt
Billy Hunter
Xenophon Clay Hunter
Doris Faye Hutchins
Edith Hutchins
Edward Lee Hutchins
Ervin Hutchins
Flora Jean Hutchins
John D. Hutchins
Monroe Dean Hutchins
Nelda Hutchins
Wayne Edward Hutchins
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Zane Gray Hutchins
Betty Jo Ireland
Betty Ruth Ireland
Clyde Wayne Ireland
Lucille Ireland
Nannie Sue Ireland
Sylvia Jean Ireland
Brenda Gail James
Charles James
Clara James
E.C. James
Elizabeth C. James
Elizabeth James
Eugene James
Gene James
Helen James
Howard James
Jessie Lee James
John Clay James
Kay James
Kelly James
Laura Lee James
Lillian James
Myrtle Mae James
Nell James
Norma James
Odell James
Patsy James
Polly James
Woodrow James
Camilla Jane Jarvis
David Zachary Jarvis
Frank Jarvis
Helena Jarvis
Lester Jarvis
Thomas “Tommy” Jarvis
Vanessa Jarvis
Betty Lou Johnson
Billy Johnson
Edward “Ed” Johnson
Edwin Johnson
Edwin T. “Eddie” Johnson
Gray Johnson
John Francis Johnson
John Frank Johnson
John Frank Johnson
Johnny Johnson
Madeline Johnson
Nell Johnson
Patsy Ann Johnson
Raymond Johnson
William Johnson
Donald Jones
Ernest C. Jones
Johnny Jones
Louise Jones
Thelma Jones
Wayne Jones
Barbara Jean Keever
Donald Kensey
Anne “Annie” Kiger
Barbara Sue
Baster Kiger
Bessie Lee Kiger
Dorothy Kiger
Dwayne Kiger
Eva Kiger
John Henry Kiger
Linda Jean Kiger
Mary Catherine Kiger
Pat Kiger
Patricia Ann Kiger
Robert Kiger
Sarah or Sara E. Kiger
Thomas Dwayne Kiger
Benjamin Franklin King
Edith Carol King
Edith Gray King
Elizabeth King
Howard King
Kelly Wayne King
Elizabeth “Libby” King
Lois Ann King
Margaret Joyce King
Nancy Ellen King
Thomas King
Wade King
Teddy Kiser
Herman Koontz
W.B. Koontz
Vera Ladd
Thelma Laird
Bobby Lou Lakey
Buren Lakey
Joy Lakey
La Deen Lakey
Lucille Lakey
Margaret Lakey
Mary Louise Lakey
Ruth Lakey
Carrie Nell Langston
Francis Maxine Langston
Grace Langston
Janet Langston
Margaret Langston
Nell G. Langston
Rachel Langston
Robert “Bob” Langston
Dorothy Lapish
Harold Lapish
Peggy Lapish
Perlie Lapish
Ruby Lapish
William Lapish
Charles Lashley
Opa Yvonne Lashmit
Addie Belle Latham
Elmer Latham
Eva Lee Latham
Harmon Reid Latham
Jimmy Marvin Latham
Juanita Latham
Louise Latham
Paul Marvin Latham
Steve Latham
Wayne Latham
William R. Latham
Carl Lawrence
Clay Lawrencevc
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George Lawrence
Donald Laymon
Garnette Laymon
Gray Laymon
Joe W. Laymon
Mary Katherine Laymon
Wayne Melvin Laymon
Dorothy Leagans
Ellis Leagans
Martha Lee
Wanda Lee
Helen Lewis
Jim Lipscomb
Linda Lipscomb
Lynwood Lipscomb
Cornelia Long
Margaret Jane Lounsbury
Carl Alex Lowe
Herman Lowe
Patricia Lowe
Baity Lowery
Cortez Lowery
Deon Lowery
J.B. Lowery
Jimmy Dean Lowery
Joan Lower
Olive Lowery
Thomas Martin
Charles Masten
Jack Masten
David Mayhew
Carolyn McBride
Henry McBride
Jay McBride
Johnson McBride, Sr.
Johnson McBride, Jr.
Linda Fay McBride
May (Mae) McBride
Ray McBride
Billy Wayne McClannon
Brenda McClannon
Emma Rose McClannon
Eugene McClannon
Faye McClannon
John H. McClannon
Judy McClannon
Phosa McClannon
Jessie Stanley McEwen
Mary FayeMcEwen
Price McEwen
Ronnie McKnight
Vivian McKnight
Edith McMahan
Elizabeth A. McMahan
Mary Lee McMahan
Tobitha McMahan
Sarah Michalove
Bayne Elma Miller
Donald Miller
Elizabeth Miller
Frances Miller
Gene Miller
Lonnie Gene Miller
Luray Miller
Margaret Miller
Patrick Miller
Pelso Miller
Vernon Miller
Wanda Lee (Lou) Miller
Clifton Mitchell
Leona Mitchell
Mamie Mitchell
Polly Mitchell
Elizabeth Katherine
Montgomery
Emily Montgomery
Margaret Montgomery
Richard Montgomery
Robert Langdon
Montgomery
B.C. Moore
Benny Moore
Herman Myers
James Henry Myers
John Henry Nail
Edna Lee Naylor
Ruby Mae Naylor
George Needham
Julia Va. Needham
Samuel Needham
Virginia Needham
Jasper Newcomer
Pat Newton
Nancy Jeanette Nichols
Dorotha May Norington
Carolyn O’Brien
Ray O’Neal
Robert parish
Susan Parker
Frankie Payne
Joyce Payne
Larry Payne
Margaret Pendry
Margaret Penry
Faye Peoples
Myrle Peoples
Sarah Lou Peoples
Violet Peoples
Betty Phillips
Bobby Phillips
Carolyn Phillips
James Phillips
Lester Phillips
Patsy Phillips
Pauline Faye Phillips
Wilma Mae Phillips
Alice Pilcher
Alvis Pilcher
Bessie Pilcher
Charles Edward Pilcher
Davis Pilcher
Edith Pilcher
Emma Pilcher
Harvey Eldridge Pilcher
Hollis Pilcher
James T. Pilcher
Jerry Pilcher
John Walter Pilcher, Jr.
Mary Pilcher
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Mary Lillian Pilcher
Polly Pilcher
Sally Pilcher
Vestal “Buddy” Pilcher
Annie Belle Potts
Della Potts
Dorothy Potts
Edward Potts
Janet Potts
Lillie Mae Potts
Mary Magdalene Potts
Lucille Potts
Paul Potts
Rosa Lee Potts
Nancy Jan Randall
A.C. Ratledge
Alvona Ratledge
Betty Lou Ratledge
Dewey Ratledge
Edna May Ratledge
Emma Lou Ratledge
Flora R. Ratledge
Kerman Ratledge
Lou Ratledge
Marie Ratledge
Ruth Ratledge
Tommy Ratledge
Thurman Ratledge
William Ratledge
Zella Mae Ratledge
Billy Reavis
Clifford Reavis
Curtis Lee Reavis
Donald Reavis
Dorothy Reavis
Elizabeth Reavis
Esther Reavis
Lois Reavis
Lowell Reavis
Lu Ray Reavis
Lucille Reavis
Mary Jane Reavis
Merrill Reavis
Robert Lee Reavis
Wayne Reavis
Jane Redden
Judy Redden
Kaye Redden
Robert Redding
Albert Redmon
Flora Ellis Redmon
Frances C. Redmon
Billy Reeves
Brenda Renegar
Burley Wayne Renegar
Robert E. Rhine
Sallie Ruth Rich
Julia Richardson
Robert Richardson
Ruth Christine Richardson
Betty Ruth Richie
Davie Richie
Elaine Richie
Judy Richie
Arnny R. Riddle
Betty Jo Riddle
Donald Riddle
Emma Riddle
Etta Riddle
Eula Riddle
Everette Lee “Toots”
Riddle
Kate Riddle
Levin Riddle
Linda Riddle
Margaret Riddle
Minnie Riddle
Nancy Riddle
Peggy Jane Riddle
Penny Sue Riddle
Tommy Riddle
Travis Riddle
Vestal Gray Riddle
Wayne Riddle
Hayes Riley
Azalee Robertson
Boone Rummage
George Sain
Leonard Sain
Willis Mae Sain
Dorothy Ann Salmons
Alberta “Tootsie” Seats
Alice Diann Seats
Annie Louise Seats
Becky Seats
Bessie Seats
Billy Seats
Brenda Seats
Charles Erastus Seats
Charlotte Seats
Dallas Seats
Dunne Seats
Frances Seats
Frank Seats
Gene Seats
Jane Amanda Seats
John Seats
John Andrew Seats
John Harold Seats
Laura Seats
Leonard Alvis Seats
Mary Elizabeth Seats
Mary Elizabeth Seats
Minnie Joyce Seats
Nancy Carolyn Seats
Nannie Sue Seats
Pansy Lillian Seats
Philip Seats
Robert Seats
Sallie Seats
Thomas Seats
William Howard Seats
Barbara Shaffner
Billy Shaffner
Jerry Shaffner
Jean Sharpe
W.B. Sharpe
Erma Sheek
Gene Sheek
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Harold Sheek
Mary Jane Sheek
Richard Everett Sheek
Annie Clara Shelton
Barbara Shelton
Barnard Shelton
Bettie Jean Shelton
Billie Roscoe Shelton
Billy Shelton
Bobby Joe Shelton
Edna Ann Shelton
Elverett Shelton
Glenda Mae Shelton
Hallie Marie Shelton
Hobert Shelton
John Hugh Shelton
Juanita Shelton
Leslie Smoot Shelton, Jr.
Luther Leonard Shelton
Morris Shelton
Ruby Shelton
Ruth Virginia Shelton
Theda Shelton
Tommy Shelton
Zelma Helena Shelton
Angeline Shore
Brenda Shore
Clarence Shore
Evonne Shore
Helen Shore
Henry Lee Shore
Ida Irene Shore
Juanita Shore
Reta Lee Shore
Annie Grey Smith
Batry Smith
Becky Smith
Betty Ann Smith
Billy B. Smith
Billy Sherrill Smith
Bob Lee Smith
Bobbie Gene Smith
Bryant Smith
Buford Smith
C.M. Smith
Dan Smith
David Smith
Diane Smith
Doris Smith
Duette(De Ette) Smith
Earl Smith
Early Smith
Eva Smith
Everette Smith
Frank Smith
Grace Smith
Gurney Smith
Howard R. Smith
Jerry Smith
Jessie Ree Smith
Jimmy Smith
James Lee Smith
Juanita Smith
Kelly Smith
Kermit Franklin Smith
Larry Lee Smith
Leo Smith
Lonnie Smith
Louise Smith
Margaret Smith
Mary Arvesta Smith
Mary Kathryn Smith
Mary Lewis Smith
Maude Smith
Minnie Lee Smith
Myrtle Smith
Naman Smith
Odell Smith
O’gene Smith
Patsy Smith
R.P. Smith
Ray Smith
Richard Smith
Ruby Smith
Rupert Smith
Sarah Smith
Sarah June Smith
Spurgeon Smith
Vernon Smith
Virgil Ray Smith
Wayne Smith
Wiley Kelly Smith
William Benjamin Smith II
William Gray Smith
Willis Smith
Billy Sherrill Smith
Zeb Smith
Johnny Smoot
Madeline Smoot
Conrad (Conard) Snow
Kenneth Snow
Betty Lou Sparks
Dwight Alan Sparks
Frances Sparks
Helen Sparks
John Frank Sparks
Kenneth Sparks
Virginia Sparks
Wayne Sparks
Wilson Sparks
Wilson Sparks, Jr.
Bonnie Belle Speer
James Early Speer
J.W. Speer
Lucy Nell Speer
Roland Speer
Roy Speer
William Speer
William Wayne Speer
Annie Francis Spillman
Delia Spillman
Hilda Jean Spillman
Laura Lee Spillman
Nancy Carol Spillman
Ora Elizabeth Spillman
Ora Mae Spillman
Paul Marshall Spillman
Ruth Spillman
Sallie Spillman
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Terry Spillman
Wilbur Spillman
William Wilburn Spillman
Mary Sue Sprinkle
Colleen Stanley
Dennis Stanley
Leroy Stanley
Sarah Mae Stanley
Linda Steelman
Gloria Sutphin
Margo Sutphin
Melda Sutphin
James Swaringen
Viola Swaringen
Fletcher Swing
Thomas J. Swing
Cornelia Taylor
Peggy Mae Taylor
Rosa Ella Taylor
W.A. Taylor
Willie Taylor
Nell Teague
B.L. Trivette
Colene Trivette
Jack Cecil Trivette
Mary Sue Trivette
Wayne Trivette
Bertie Lois Tucker
Emma Lee Tucker
Gilbert Tucker
Helen Tucker
Joseph William Tucker
Billy Ray Vestal
Conrad Vestal
Everette Vestal
Kate Vestal
Leo Vestal
Lewis Vestal
Mary Vestal
Wesley Vestal
Timothy Wagner
Earnest Wagoner
Ruby Wagoner
David Waite
Billy Walker
Clara Walker
Clara Lee Walker
Erma Walker
Flora Mae Walker
Gurney Walker
Harold Walker
Hazel Walker
Louise Walker
Mildred Walker
Nancy Walker
Norman Walker
Paula Walker
Paul Shore Walker
Richard Walker
Roy Lee Walker
William Wray Walker
John Wallace
Leonard Wallace
Mary Lee Wallace
Robert Lewis Wallace
Roger
Bryan Ward
Frances Lee Ward
John Gaither Ward
Lonnie B. Ward
Forrest Watson
R.J. Watson
Edward Richard
Weatherman
Ruth Weatherman
Barbara Webb
H.G. Webb
Martha Helena Weir
James Wesley
Aileen West
Bill West
Billy West
Catherine West
Christine West
Edith West
Eileen West
Elizabeth West
Emma West
Ernestine West
Frances Key West
Geneivive West
Jennie Vee West
Jessie Lee West
Josephine West
Laura Lee West
Lawrence West
Lois West
Lonnie West
Luther West
Roland West
Sandra West
Sarah Milla West
Vada West
Wayne West
Wilbur West
Ray Whisenhunt
Robert Whisenhunt
Ruby Whisenhunt
Betty Sue Whitaker
Bruce Whitaker
Delmas Whitaker
Dorsette Whitaker
Janet Whitaker
Jimmie Whitaker
Mary Jane Whitaker
Mildred Whitaker
Roger Whitaker
Alma White
Charlie Hartman White, Sr
Charlie Hartman White, Jr
David White, Jr.
Elizabeth White
Fabian White
Glenda Louise White
Harmon White
Harold White
Harvey White
Ike White
James White
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Joe White
Kenneth White
Margie White
Ola White
Oscar White
Ruth White
William White
Elva White
Frank White
Geneva White
Hugh White
Joe White
Linda Darlene White
Ronnie White
Roy White
Billy Williamson
Jeanette Williamson
Lola Ruth Williamson
Fletcher Williard, Jr.
Harold Williard
Larry Williard
Abe Wishon
Betty Wishon
Charles Wishon
Earl Wishon
Grady Wishon
John Wishon
Lucille Wishon
R.C. Wishon
Sam Wishon
Thomas Wishon
Larry Womble
Clauzelle Wood
Clyde Wood
Ella Gray Wood
Esther Wood
George Wood
Glenn Wood
Guy Wood
Harold Wood
Henry Wood
Jerry Gray Wood
Linda Wood
Nannie Wood
Pansy Wood
Patsy Jean Wood
Robert Wood
Robert McKinley Wood
Russell Wood
Shelby Wood
Wayne Wood
Barbara Wright
Leo Wright
Marie Wright
Carolyn Ann York
Doris York
Frances Mae York
Bobby Zimmerman
James Zimmerman
Jean Zimmerman
Sue Zimmerman
(These pages of students
are a partial list.)
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FARMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES, 1918 - 1956
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1918-1919
Principal: Miss Lura A. Scott
Ruby Armsworthy
Leona Graham
Clara James
Early Smith
Willie Taylor
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1924-1925
Principal: Prof. J. Frank Scott
Roy Blake
John Brock
Odell James
Kelley James
Grey Johnson
Margaret Miller
Rupert Smith
Bryon Ward
Hugh Williams
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1925-26
Principal: Mrs. Lura Scott Welborn
Mary Eliza Baity
Leon Foster
Duke Furches
Henry Furches
Ray Graham
Grace Hendricks
Lillian James
Elizabeth James
Nell Johnson
Sallie Spillman
Cornelia Taylor
Mildred Walker
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1926-1927
Principal: Mrs. W.S. (Lura Scott) Welborn
Pauline Boger
Helen Gregory
Clausell Gregory
Grace Hendricks
J. Alma Howard
Elizabeth C. James
Thomas Martin
Frances C. Redmon
Nell Teague
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1928-1929
Principal: Mr. S.A. Winslow
Mary Eliza Baity
Joe Blake
Howard Cox
Marjorie Gregory
Gladys Gregory
Thelma Harding
Marcellus Harpe
Kelly James
Jessie Lee James
Reta Shore
Dan Smith
Mary Lewis Smith
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1929-1930
Principal: Mr. E.L. Ball
Joseph Moses Blake
Cornelia Brock
John Wes Davis
Louise Davis
Elmer Dunn
Wake Edwards
Helen Flowe
Martha Furches
Annie Lois Furches
Douthit Lawrence Furches
Julia Furches
Nell James
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Billy Johnson
Paul Marvin Latham
William R. Latham
Flora Redmon
Ida Irene Shore
Louise Walker
Martha Helena Weir
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1930-1931
Principal: Mr. E.L. Ball
Lillian Joyce Allen
Clarence Weir Allen
Juanita E. Boger
Frankie Katherine Cornatzer
Mattye Lou Davis
Frances Dull
David Roy Edwards
Blanche Foster
Samuel Wesley Howell
Louise Jones
Mary Louise Lakey
Sarah Milla West
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1937-1938
Principal: Graham Rex Madison
Mary Frances Boger
Betty Driver
Paul Freeman
Martha Harding
La Vada Harpe
Miriam Harpe
Bernice Hilton
Edith McMahan
Faye Peoples
Margaret Smith
Wilburn Spillman
David Waite
Jessie Lee West
Eileen West
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1939-1940
Principal: Graham Rex Madison
Frances Brinkley
Howard Boger
Margaret Jo Brock
Magdalene Carter
Evelyn Caudle
Bonnie Hope Driver
John Monroe Ferebee
Xenophon Clay Hunter
Charles James
La Deen Lakey
Gene Miller
Dewey Ratledge
Azalee Robertson
Frances Seats
Bertie Lois Tucker
Elizabeth West
Harold White
(According to source, list may contain some
errors.)
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1940-1941
Principal: Graham Rex Madison
Martha Louise Allen
Joyce Beck
Nora Mae Cline
Gladys Cooke
Ann Cornatzer
Glenn Caudle
Poe Dull
Cleo Essic
Margie Essic
Nancy Furches
Libby Graves
Faye Harris
Woodrow Howell
Nelda Hutchins
Gene James
Lester Jarvis
W.B. Koontz
Betty McMahan
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Emily Montgomery
Clifford Reavis
Angeline Shore
Kermit Smith
W.A. Taylor
Kate Vestal
Clara Lee Walker
Mary Lee Wallace
Elizabeth West
Ruth White
Fletcher Williard, Jr.
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1941-1942
Principal: Graham Rex Madison
Charlotte Carter
Glenn Caudle
Ray Deese, Jr.
Thelma Driver
Vernon Dull
Janice Eaton
Francis Essic
Vashti Furches
Isabelle Harkey
Vernon Howard
Eugene James
Thomas Jarvis
John Francis Johnson
Mary Lee McMahan
Ruth Ratledge
Lois Reavis
Batry Smith
Jessie Lee Smith
Madeleine Smoot
Ora Elizabeth Spillman
Jennie Vee West
Lois West
Harmon White
Leo Wright
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1944-1945
Principal: V.G. Prim, Sr.
Frances Atkinson
Fannie Belle Baity
Nellie Mae Beck
John Tabor Brock
Charlene Clontz
Mary Nell Drive
James Thomas Foster
Joe Carr Harpe
Lorene Hockaday
Margaret Langston
Phosa McClannon
Robert E. Rhine
Minnie Riddle
Nannie Sue Seats
Hallie Marie Shelton
C.M. Smith
Doris Smith
Frances Sparks
Edith West
Joe White
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1946-1947
Principal: Ralph J. Smitherman
Beulah Allen
Faye Anderson
Thelma Anderson
Margaret Montgomery
Elizabeth Reavis
Stacy Beck
Harold Boger
Vestal Dull
Charles Lashley
Sam Furches
J.T. Pilcher
Henry Lee Shore
Roland West
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1947-1948
Principal: Ralph J. Smitherman
Ada Ann Atkinson
Pearlene Booe
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James Brock
Willis Davis
O.E. Driver, Jr.
Dean Dull
Gene Dull
Carolyn Eaton
Albert Gentle
Lucille Ireland
Helena Jarvis
Olliver Lowery
Marie Ratledge
Lucille Reavis
Nancy Riddle
Eula Riddle
Billy Seats
Betty Jean Shelton
Betty Lou Sparks
Leonard Wallace
Catherine West
Harvey White
Wade Wright
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1948-1949
Principal: Ralph J. Smitherman
Odell A. Boger
Peggy Sue Cline
Willis Davis
Martha Ann Davis
Dewilla Dull
Sarah Ruth Eaton
Robert Gray Furches
Janet Gaither
Shirley Gaither
Sallie ruth Hockaday
John Frank Johnson, Jr.
Zella Mae Ratledge
Curtiss Lee Reavis
Betty Jo Riddle
Johnny Seats
Annie Grey Smith
Kenneth White
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1949-1950
Principal: Toler Haynes
William Robert Beck
Dorothy Mae Beck
Mary Elizabeth Brock
Lassie Mae Carter
Clarence Smith Carter, Jr.
Beavey Lella Gaither
Bessie Lee Kiger
Carrie Nell Langston
Addie Belle Latham
Rosa Lee Potts
Annie Bell Potts
Leslie Smoot Shelton, Jr.
Lucy Nell Speer
Peggy Mae Taylor
Robert Lewis Wallace
Charlie Hartman White, Jr.
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1950-1951
Principal: Toler Haynes
Elmer Gray Allen
Edith Beck
Grady Lewis Beck
Nancy Boger
Nancy Camilla Booe
Richard Lee Carter
Bonnie Cornelison
O’Brien Dixon
Harry Kenneth Driver
Dorothy Carol Hauser
Luray Miller
Bayne Elmo Miller
Peggy Jane Riddle
John Harold Seats
Jane Amanda Seats
Buford Smith
Fabian White
Patsy Jean Wood
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1951-1952
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Principal: Sidney G. Wallace
Lillian Grey Allen
Eula Mae Beck
Mary Kathryn Bowles
Richard Joseph Brock
William Laurie Brock
Betty Busiek (or Busick)
Don Busiek (or Busick)
Carroll Hanes
Thurman Howell
Nannie Sue Ireland
Edith King
Lucille Lakey
Edna Lee Naylor
Robert Seats
Edna Ann Shelton
Sarah June Smith
Bonnie Belle Speerl
Larry Williard
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1952-1953
Principal: Sidney G. Wallace
Frances Henrie Baity
Nelly Blanche Baity
Mary Ann Carter
James Charles Caudle
Patty Sue Caudle
William Clarence Eaton
Myra Davis Ellis
Nancy Carol Ellis
James Harold Gregory
Mary Susan Hanes
Edith Christine Howard
Margaret Joyce King
Emma Rose McClannon
Elizabeth Katerine Montgomery
Robert Langdon Montgomery
Harvey Eldridge Pilcher
Vestal Gray Riddle
Dorothy Ann Salmons
Annie Louise Seats
Leonard Alvis Seats
Mary Elizabeth Seats
Nancy Carolyn Seats
Richard Evereth Sheek
Bob Lee Smith
Mary Kathryn Smith
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1953-1954
Principal: Sidney G. Wallace
Emma Sue Brock Allen
Edward Lee Beck
Hubert Samuel Boger
Johnny Charles Boger
Sherrill Kermit Brinkley
Betty Maureen Carter
Peggy Ann Davis
Mary Ruth Douthit
Nola Jane Foster
Betty Lou Johnson
Robert Lewis Langston
Margaret Jane Lounsbury
Mary Jane Reavis
Billy Sherrill Smith
William Benjamin Smith, II
William Wray Walker
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1954-1955
Principal: Sidney G. Wallace
Phillips Beauchamp
Norman Blake
Virginia Boger
Jo Ann Bowles
Rufus Brock
Jimmy Carter
Peggy Cornelison
Frances Ellis
Maxine Langston
Mary Fae McEwen
Bobby Phillips
Mary Lillian Pilcher
Kerman Ratledge
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Betty Lou Ratledge
Thurman Ratledge
Luray Reavis
Emma Riddle
Roger Wallace
Glenda White
John Wishon
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1955-1956
Principal: Sidney G. Wallace
Margaret Adams
Wilma Booe
Joe Busick
Patsy Cline
Peggy Coe
Helen Collins
Peggy Dull
Clarence Elmore
Rosalene Gentle
Lawrence Gregory
Olena Groce
Ann Harding
Johnny Hauser
Ruth Howard
Rachel Langston
Gray Laymon
Joyce Payne
Lester Phillips
Bessie Seats
Jean Sharpe
Gene Sheek
Evonne Shore
Jimmy Smith
Leo Vestal
Bruce Whitaker
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PRINCIPALS AND TEACHERS AT FARMINGTON ACADEMY
1882 - 1916
1882-1884 (unknown)
1884-1887 James F. Brower, principal
1887-1891 Oscar B. Eaton, principal
R.P. Clingman
F.M. Horn
Miss S.B. Cuthrell
Miss M.T. Furches
Rev. A.R. Murchinson
Miss Mollie Perry
1881-1896 Leonard “Leon” Agustus Cash, principal
Mrs. Fannie Cash
Miss Jessie Chaffin
Mr. Williams
Miss Julia Harding
Miss Mattie Rich
1896-1897 Miss Lucy Wilson Weathersbee, principal
1897-1900 Mrs. A.M. McGlamery, principal
1900-1906 B.W. Stephens, principal
Miss Susan “Susie” J. Jones
Enos Calvin Smith
1906-1907 Paul H. Nance, principal
Mrs. Mabel Brock
1907-1912 Henry A. Doak, principal
Miss Eunice Helm
Miss Dora E. Abernathy
W.P. Henley
1912-1916 Fred B. Yoder, principal
Kate Brown
Helen Brown
Bessie Gatts
Cora Ballard
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School name changes to FARMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL in 1916.
It is still a tuition school except for high school students.
1916-1918 A.H. Flowers, principal
Mary McMahan
Gelene Ijames
Phoebe Eaton
Vada Johnson
1918-1919 Miss Lura A. Scott, principal
Miss Julia Austin
Miss Eva Smith
Miss Phoebe Eaton
Miss Vada Johnson
FARMINGTON NEW BRICK BUILDING
1919 - 1970
Mr. Robey W. Adams
Miss Ida Mae Alexander
Mrs. Rose S. Andrews
Mr. Paul Angell
Miss Julia Austin
Miss Mattie Ruth Ayers
Prof. E.L. Ball, principal, 1929-1933
Mr. Charles Thomas Barbour
Hazel Barbour
Mr. Sheffield Beck
Miss Sula Bissette
Mrs. Carolyn S. Boger
Miss Blevins
Miss Ella Bohanon
C.L. Bowden
Sheek Bowden
Miss Alice Boyd
Mr. T.G. Britt
Mrs. Norma Flowers Brock
Mrs. Lucille A. Brown
Miss Gussie Bumgardner
Miss Addie Campbell
Miss Mabel Chaffin
Miss Mary Chilson
Mr. Jimmie Chilton
Mrs. Lucas J. Conrad (Miss Ina Cox)
Miss Eva Cranfill
Miss Frankie Craven
Miss Minilla Craver
Grimes A. Creason
Mr. C.R. Crenshaw
Mrs. Davis
Mrs. Nell R. Day
Lewis Dobson
Theodore Doub
Mr. Watson Gene Dull
Mrs. Arma Duncan
Mrs. Genevieve T. Duncan
Miss Alice Dyson
Miss Phoebe Eaton
Mrs. Mary L. Essic
Miss Alice Evans
Milton Gray Everhart.
Miss Ruth Fleming
Helen Flowe
A.H. Flowers, principal, 1916-1918
Miss Thelma Freeman
Mrs. Eleanor Ward Gabard
Mrs. Buck Garrison
Miss Delia Grant
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Miss Edith Griffith
Mrs. Groce
Miss Ellen Hamrick
Miss Elizabeth Harding
Miss Lena Mae Harmon
Miss Carolyn Hartman
Mrs. Esther Horn Hawkins
Sadia Hawkins
Mr. Toler Haynes, principal, 1949-1951
Miss Elizabeth Henderson
Miss Mabel Holden
Mrs. N.M. Hollis
Miss Dorothy Holt
Miss Sallie G. Holt
Mrs. Evelyn S. Howell
Gelene Ijames
Mrs. Jessie V. Ingram
Mr. John Dwight Jackson, prin., 1966-1970
Clyde Jennings
Mrs. John Frank Johnson
John Frank Johnson
Miss Vada Johnson
Elizabeth Johnston
Queen Bess (Mrs. W.E.) Kennen
Mr. A.M. Kiser, Jr., principal 1961-1966
Mrs. Mary Nell Lakey
Mrs. Nell Hartman Lashley
Mr. Melving Lashure (Lasure)
Mr. James Lentz
Billie E. Lewis
Miss Helen Lewis
Miss Nina Ruth Long
Graham Rex Madison, principal, 1933-1944
Mr. D.D. Martin
Miss Elfred McBrayer
Mary McMahan
Miss Mary McNeil
Clarence Miller
Mrs. Joe Vernon Miller
Mrs. Thomas Miller
Mr. Walter Grady Morris
Miss Geraldine Musselwhite
Miss Mary Nichols
Atha Norman
Dorothea May Norrington
Mr. B.G. O’Brien
Mrs. B. G. O’Brien
Leroy Page
Lenna Pearson
William W. Peek, principal, 1959-1960
Mr. G.W. Pendry
Miss Dorothy Perry
George W. Peter, Jr.
V.G. Prim, Sr., principal, 1944-1946
Miss Adelia Poindexter
Miss Essie Poindexter
Mrs. Lorraine B. Redden
Lorene Bowden Redding
Mrs. Florence B. Renegar
U.S. Ritchie
Mrs. Nan Roberts
J. Frank Scott, principal, 1922-1925
Miss Lura A. Scott, principal, 1918-1920
Hazel H. Sharp
Helen Sharpe
Mr. J.E. Sherrill
Jane B. Shore
Miss Norma Shore
Ruth Short
Mrs. George H.C. Shutt, Jr.
Mrs. A.L. Smith
Miss Eva Smith
Helen Smith
Henry C. Smith
Marvin Smith
Mrs. Lillian J. Smitherman
Ralph J. Smitherman, principal, 1946-1949
Mrs. R.L. Smoot
Madeline Smoot Sparks
Miss Ruby Steelman
Miss Birdie Stone
Miss Frances Summers
Miss Amy Talbert
Annie Lou Todd
Miss Florence Thorneburg
Miss Frances Threlkeld
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Paul Trivette
Mrs. Ruth Jarvis Tutterow
Mr. Lacy M. Venable
Mr. Vestal
Rev. Vestal
Mr. Sidney G. Wallace, principal 1951-1959
Mr. Paul B. Walters
Mrs. W.S. Welborn, principal 1925-1928
Mrs. Betty E. West
Mr. Wayne West
Lawrence Columbus Williams
Mr. Y.E. Williams
Mrs. Elizabeth Graham Williard
Mr. S.A. Winslow, principal 1928-1929
Miss Woosley
Mr. Wright
Mr. James R. York
Prof. M. P. Young, principal, 1920-1922