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Helen Claycomb York knew old building was Montgomery School Helen Claycomb York guessed correctly that last's week's photo of the old schoolhouse was the Montgomery School. She and her brothers, Billy and David Claycomb, attended that school. "We all spent our grade school days there," Helen said, "It was about a five-minute walk from our home, the "Claycomb farm" on the corner of West 80 and Lampton Lane." In conversations with her brothers, Helen learned that some of the teachers there were Bernie Paxton, Allene Cheatham, Winifred Moore, Mary Margaret Staples Grasham (who lives in Columbia), Mary Houston Gist Paxton (Mrs. Bernie), and Ruth Stotts Allen (Mrs. Harry). "My teachers were the latter three," she says, "They were great I thought. I had Mrs. Mary Houston for five years.In her later years I asked her how she handled six grades at a time and she said, 'The younger ones learned from the older classes.' I started to Columbia High School in 1949; I don't know who taught between then and the school consolidations in autumn 1953." Helen also says that six grades per year were taught. One year there would be grades 1-5, and 7; the next year there would be grades 1-4, 6 & 8. She continues, "Recess would consist of playing Town Ball, Ante Over, and Jump Rope.We took our own lunches. Drinking water came from a well out front. We dipped water from a bucket into our individual drinking containers, or into a hand washing basin. "The desks and seats were built together. Usually we shared a double with someone. Punishment consisted of standing in the corner for a while, or staying in at recess, or writing sentences on the board. "The grounds had some large beech trees on them and we enjoyed the nuts in season. There was a hickory nut tree in the yard of the Price's Chapel Churchhouse next door and we enjoyed the hickory nuts too. "When I started to Columbia High, it seemed awfully large to me!" Exact location: Montgomery Schoolhouse is located in a curve of Lampton Lane which connects Greensburg Road, Hwy 61 and Edmonton Road, Hwy 80. The old school is close to the David Claycomb house, across the road from Lenny and Karla Stone's; beside the Karl Flowers farm. Behind it is a farm of Tommy Nobles (used to be the Paxton place). She can be reached at: helenyork2003@yahoo.com. Click here to see the original photo of Montgomery School This story was posted on 2005-01-10 06:13:42
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