Ha Fulton County Indiana Handbook SCHOOLS * * * * * HAROLDSBURG SCHOOL [ - - - - -] Elder E. M. McGraw has commenced a series of meetings at the Haroldsburg School House . [Kewanna Items, Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, December 19, 1874] Rev. Andrew Babcock has been called to preach at the Harold school house and at this place. He preached at the M.E. church on last Saturday night. - Eli Leiter. [Kewanna Items, Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, April 7, 1877] HARTMAN SCHOOL [Aubbeenaubbee Township] Located in Section 7. In 1991 still standing. Moved to the Mahler homestead one-half mile west of SR-17 on 600N - i.e. NW corner 1100W and 600N. Built between 1883 and 1907. __________ THIRD AUBBEENAUBBEE SCHOOL HOUSE FLAME-HIT The third Aubbeenaubbee township school house to be mysteriously attacked by fire, the Hartman school one mile west of Delong, was saved from destruction Sunday morning. As the rest, the recent blaze is attributed to incendiaries, perhaps irresponsible boys or persons having a grudge against the school management of the township. The two other buildings, Mt. Hope and Myers were destroyed. [The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, July 7, 1925] __________ [photo] Hartman school 1922-23 when Joe Guise was teacher. Row 1: (Kneeling) Albert Vandergrift, Virgil Slonaker. Row 2: Marguerite Slonaker, Francis Wentzel, Ruby Mahler. Row 3: Daisy Faulstich, Oliver Mahler, Charles Widman, Hazel Mahler, Lawrence Faulstich. Row 4: Herman Faulstich, Milo Mahler, Oscar Lahman, Anna Widman, Clifford Lahman. (Photo: Oscar Layman) [FCHS Quarterly No. 17, p. 8] __________ Hartman School (section 7) was located at the [NW] corner of 1100W and 600N . It was named for being on Ben Hartman’s farm. Teachers were Mattie Stubbs 1890; Lloyd Eherenmann 1908; Emma Miller 1909; Guy Shadel 1910-11; George (or Wes?) Kaley, Lloyd Irvin (?), Bertha McClain 1914-16; Carrie Van Kierk 1917-18; Inez Stubbs Murray; Glendolynn Stubbs; Devon Walters; Eleanore Widmore; Lucille Stout; Don Robinson; Raymond Ditmire; Ruth McClain; Melvin Swihart; Carrie Keller; Joe Guise 1922-23; Madge Setphens Beery 1924- 25. Patrons included Hartman, Hartz, Marbough, Decker, Lahman Miller, Fox, Mahler, and Faulstich families. The one-room schools all closed by 1925 and the students attended Leiters Ford. It will be noted that several of the little white schoolhouses burned in 1918. It was suspected that they Ha were set afire by people who wanted the children to go to Leiters Ford school. At Hartman school the stove burned through the floor and dropped to the ground. Myers and Ditmire burned completely. So did Mt. Hope and Hartman in 1925. [FCHS Quarterly No. 17, p. 7 and p. 12] MEMORIAL TO LEITERS FORD MUSEUM Bertha McClain attended the Pawpaw School beginning in September 1906 as a student in the fifth grade. The teacher was Frank King. Succeeding teachers were Howard Dickie, 1907- 08; Howard Gillespie, 1908-09; and Martha Cook 1909-10. Bertha attended Leiters Ford High School, graduating in 1914. Her ambition from childhood was to be a teacher. She attended Winona College the summers of 1914 and 195. The trustee, Henry Moon hired her to be the teacher of Hartman School that year 1914-15 at the salary of $32 per month. Our parents, Mr. and Mrs. David McClain, were living on the William O’Keefe farm one-fourth mile west of the Pawpaw school. Bertha drove a horse and buggy to school. [FCHS Quarterly No. 48, pp 29-30] HAUN / HAWN SCHOOL [#2] [Henry Township] Located SE corner of 900E and 100N. Built before 1876; abandoned between 1883 and 1907. Another school, located SW corner of 900E and 100N. Built between 1876 and 1883. __________ [photo] Hawn School north of Akron. (Photo: Treva Klein) [FCHS Quarterly No. 43, p. 57] [photo] Hauns School 1924. Front row: Trella Bradway, Dorothy Carr, Marvel Werner, Robert Werner, Gerald Kindig, Carl Swanson, Oscar Carr, Donald Utter, Devane Ballenger, Willis Bradway. Row 2: David Bradway, Sarah Grace Gallentine, Marjorie Barr, Edna Swanson, Mona Bennett, Marie Wideman, Trella Kuhn, Florence Werner, John Swanson, Frank Swanson, Charles Bennett, Harold Bryant. Row 3: David Bryant, Herman Kindig, Howard Swartzlander, Byron Kindig, Cleo Bryant, William McHatton - teacher Pauline Kindig, Ina Swartzlander, Evelyn Werner, Olive Bryant. (Photo: Ina Swartzlander Hatfield) [FCHS Quarterly No. 43, p. 58] [photo] Haun’s School - Year 1911-12. Back row: Ruth Harter, Nellie Bradway, Arzerna Higgins - teacher, Eileen Kindig, Ruth Bradway, Russel McIntyre. Middle Row: Marie Leininger, Herman McIntyre, Max Bryant, Mildred Kindig, Valura Richardson Hattie McIntyre, Ivan Clinker, Max Kuhn, Gladys Bryant. Front Row: Carl Leininter, Russell Wideman, Loyd Heeter, Russell Bryant, Don McIntyre, Loren Heeter, Valura Bradway, Mary Leech, Kenneth Leininger. [FCHS Quarterly Vol. 6, August 1969, No. 1, p. 6] DISTRICT 2 - HAUN’S SCHOOL By Velma Bright On June 11, 1844, Jacob and Hepziliah Bright gave one-fourth of an acre of land to Henry Township for District 2 School. This was located in the northwest corner of Section ten. Ha On September 14, 1877, James and Marria Dawson sold one-half acre of land to Henry Township for eleven dollars for District 2 School. This was probably the time that a new brick schoolhouse was built. This school was located two miles north of Lake Chippawa (Lake 16). This school disbanded in 1927 but the building is still standing. [FCHS Quarterly Vol. 6, August 1969, No. 1, p. 6] BALL, MILLARK, SUGAR GROVE & HAUN SCHOOLS By Loyd Swick When I was 21 years old I first taught school at a log schoolhouse called Bunker located 40 miles north of Hannah, Wyoming. The next year I came back to Fulton County, Ind., to teach at Millark school 1924-25. I bought a new 1924 Ford Roadster for $365 and drove it to Millark and to teach at Sugar Grove the next year 1925-26. Then I bought a new Chevy to drive to Haun school 1926-27. My salary was $100 a month for eight months teaching. When I taught at Sugar Grove, we played basketball against Millark, taught by a friend of mine, Frank Funk. When I taught at Haun, my team played against Sugar Grove. But these are the only one-room schools I know of that played basketball. We played outdoors with a backstop fastened to a pole. Sugar Grove was a bigger school in that it had a basement with a furnace, a water pump, and a place to play indoors. I told the children to each bring his own tin cup instead of all using the common cup. Haun school had a hack, but Millark and Sugar Grove did not. At Haun school Bill McIntire drove a Ford car to pick up the children who lived the farthest away. The closer one walked. [FCHS Quarterly No. 42, pp 41-42] HAUNS SCHOOL By Ina Swartzlander Hatfield as told to Velma Bright I went to Hauns School the last two years of grade school because Sayger’s School closed. Chester Utter drove the bus. Sometimes Ruth Utter would drive it. Don McIntyre drove the bus in another area. I had always walked to Sayger’s School as it was close, but since Hauns was farther away we were picked up. One time I ran around the school house and slipped on the ice and fell flat. Don McIntyre was sitting in his bus and saw me fall. William McHatton was my teacher at Hauns and he was a very good teacher. Editor’s note: Marie Wideman recalls that most of the Hauns School teachers roomed at her house, the Elmer Wideman’s. Seth Carpenter and Loyd Swick were also teachers at Hauns. Aunt Evelyn Wideman said that the school was built on their farm but was moved across the road (from northeast to southwest corner) because she didn’t want it on the farm. The 1876 and 1883 atlases confirm this move as taking place between those years. Will McIntyre, father of Don, drove the school hack before his son did. He drove a horse-drawn hack and later got a Model T Ford to drive when he could get through the roads. Revival meetings were held in the schoolhouse in the early days. [FCHS Quarterly No. 43, p. 56] HAWNS SCHOOL By Selena Utter Gerig: I feel inadequate to write about Hawns (also spelled Hauns) School as I spent much more of my time at Saygers than Hawns. Though I have contacted a few folks who did spend all eight years there and part of what I will give was from their experience also. I came to Hawns school in my second year for just a few weeks. This was the spring of 1912. We had just moved into this neighborhood that spring. I have information that our local Church of God held revival meetings in Hawns school before we had our established buildings to house the members. Ha In the fall of the year we would have a “Box Social.” The older school girls would make very pretty boxes in which they had prepared some food to share with the young man that bought it. The boxes were auctioned off by Rick Reahard, an auctioneer of that day. There would also be a cake walk that afforded interest and pleasure. Another feature of this celebration was the “most popular girl.” Ten cents would give her so many votes. All money taken in would go for new library books, maps or whatever was most needed. The next big event would be the Christmas celebration. We would get to help string the popcorn and decorate the tree. Some years there would be a Christmas program and our mothers would join us. There were times Santa would appear with an orange and candy, also a popcorn ball.