- - - FAULKNER - BLACKMAN SCHOOL - - -

Plymouth Twp., Richland Co., School District # 11

(Present building, constructed in 1889, closed in 1937)

 

 

photo - Fall 2000

 

 

School Location and Early Neighboring Landowners

 

1873 Map <------           1896 Map ------>

 Location: On London West Road, between Champion and Kuhn Roads

 

 

photo - courtesy of Mrs. Doris Faulkner Stotts

Faulkner School ca. 1930's

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photo - courtesy of Dana Stentz/Love & Don Lawrence

 

Faulkner School - Autumn 1993

 

 

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Memories of the Little Red Brick Country School

 

" The one room school where I attended first grade

From our home about a mile away
No school bus ran to take us there
Walking was the style in that day.

 

Each grade was called on to the front row seats
To be taught and participate
The remaining students studied at their desks
The grades were one to eight.

 

There was only one teacher for all eight grades
What a task that must have been
But lessons were learned and the grades we earned
Showed on cards to our parents she'd send.

 

A small coal shed stood outside the school
Where fuel was kept for winter
To be burned in the big stove sitting inside
The fuel carried in by the janitor.

 

Faulkner School 1935

photo - courtesy of Mrs. Doris Faulkner Stotts

 

No modern conveniences as known today
Nor were there any toys
But two small "buildings" stood outside
One for girls and one for boys.

 

Our drinking water was pumped from a well
Near the school in those days of old
A bucket was filled and carried inside
To drink when the weather was cold.

 

One time for a Christmas program
I was stood atop a desk
To recite the small part that I was given
Trying timidly to do my best.

 

When I saw so many faces looking at me
It made me really nervous and scared
But the teacher gently coaxed me on
Though I'd previously been prepared.

 

photo - courtesy of Mrs. Doris Faulkner Stotts

 

The old school house is still standing
In a field on London West Road
No children's laughter heard there now
But the memories do not erode.

 

As I reminisce about the fun we had
The activities at the time
I think of the teacher who was caring indeed
Her name - - Lois Faulkner Stine"

 

- - - - Martha Champion Lewis

 

photo courtesy of Mrs. Doris Faulkner Stotts

 

Faulkner School Girls (1936 - 1937 Class)

Francis Smith, Donna Monn, Rose Whisler, Martha Champion, Sara Moon

 

 

Class of 1934 - 1935

 

photo courtesy of Mrs. Doris Faulkner Stotts

 

 

Class Members:

Front Row (L to R): Roan Harriman, Donna Moon, Melvin Lake

 

Middle Row: Paul Hartz, Robert Glower, Margery Harriman, Peggy Major,

Donald Glower, Laurence Faulkner

 

Back Row: Earl Cashman, Eugene Harriman, Roland Stentz, Pauline Fair,

Coyne Hartz, Lois Faulkner / Stine - Teacher

 

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photo courtesy of Mrs. Doris Faulkner Stotts

Lunch Time

 

(L to R): Unknown, Robert Glower, Paul Hartz, Eugene Harriman ?,

Earl Cashman, Donald Glower, Melvin Lake

 

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photo courtesy of Mrs. Doris Faulkner Stotts

 

(L to R): Margery Harriman, Winifred Fackler, Freda Jeffery, Peggy Major,

Beatrice Yohn, Grace Moore, Helen Moore, Genevieve Fackler, Phyllis Moore

 

 

 

photo courtesy of Mrs. Doris Faulkner Stotts

 

 

Faulkner School Classmates (ca. 1896)

(The slate reads: Blackman School, but bottom line illegible)

 

Front Row (l to r):

Ray Gutshall, Roy Faulkner, unknown, Viva Gutshall, Nina Gutshall, unknown

 

Second Row:

Ivan Gutshall, unknown, unknown, unknown, Anna Gutshall, Ethel Gutshall,

Boyd Fackler ? - Teacher

 

Back - (left):

George Gutshall

 

Any help in identifying the unknown students in the photo would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

Faulkner School Teachers

(List supplied by Mrs. Doris Faulkner/ Stotts & Lois Faulkner/ Stine)

 

1856 - 1857	Mary C. Dull
1857 - 1858
1859 - 1860	Mary I. Weltz
1860 - 1861
1861 - 1862
1862 - 1863
1863 - 1864	M. E. Hale
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1887 - 1888	.
1888 - 1889	.
1889 - 1890	.
1890 - 1891	Amelia King / Esther Bricker / Addie Bistline / Clara Sherick
1891 - 1892	Addie Bistline / Clara Sherick
1892 - 1893	Lottie Johnson / Clara Sherick / James Gundrum
1893 - 1894	James Gundrum / Lottie Johnson
1894 - 1895	Boyd Fackler / Nannie Bushey
1895 - 1896	Boyd Fackler
1896 - 1897	Boyd Fackler / Louise Taylor
1897 - 1898	Jesse Kuhn
1898 - 1899	.
1899 - 1900	.
1900 - 1901	Ida Hutchinson
1901 - 1902	Mayne Johnston / Ida Hutchinson
1902 - 1903	Willard Dick / Julia Lee
1903 - 1904	L. G. Davis / Willard Dick
1904 - 1905	W. L. May
1905 - 1906	May Hanna
1906 - 1907	R. H. Wilson
1907 - 1908	J. W. Hanna
1908 - 1909	Ralph Bevier
1909 - 1910	Harold Jeffery
1910 - 1911	Ralph Bevier
1911 - 1912	Mildred Howard
1912 - 1913	Grace Ernest
1913 - 1914	Ralph Bevier
1914 - 1915	Florence Danner
1915 - 1916	Wilson Lehman
1916 - 1917	Wilson Lehman
1917 - 1918	Rachel Stine
1918 - 1919	Rachel Stine
1919 - 1920	Rachel Stine
1920 - 1921	Martha Stuckey
1921 - 1922	Martha Stuckey
1922 - 1923	Martha Stuckey
1923 - 1924	Mary Stine
1924 - 1925	Mary Stine
1925 - 1926	Martha Stuckey
1926 - 1927	Mary Stine
1927 - 1928	Mary Stine
1928 - 1929	Mary Stine
1929 - 1930	Mrs. Phelma Brown
1930 - 1931	Mrs. Phelma Brown
1931 - 1932	Lois Faulkner
1932 - 1933	Lois Faulkner
1933 - 1934	Mrs. Phelma Brown
1934 - 1935	Lois Faulkner
1935 - 1936	Lois Faulkner
1936 - 1937	Lois Faulkner

 

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