- - - GAMBLE SCHOOL - - -

Sharon Twp., Richland Co., School District # 4

(Current schoolhouse built ca. 1873)

 

 

Gamble School Today

photo Fall 2000

 

School Location and Early Neighboring Landowners

 

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

Location: South side of Weidner Road, West of the Intersection with Bendle Road.

 

Gamble School History

 

In September of 1823, our government sold the Northwest Quarter of Section 20

in Sharon Twp. to John Gambell from Ontario County, New York. The Gamble

Schoolhouse is located on the very northwest corner of this Northwest Quarter Section

and has been allotted for the purpose of a school since before 1845. John C. Gambell

(Gamble) was the eldest son of James Gambell (Gamble) the Revolutionary War

veteran, who arrived in Richland County from New York State c. 1823.

 

John C. and his wife Elizabeth Rathburn/Gamble retained this property until 1845

when they sold a portion of it to John's younger brother, Hugh Gamble. Hugh was a

prominent lawyer, Justice of the Peace, member of the Ohio Legislature, and

Associate Judge of Richland County.

 

The deed description mentions "a small lot now occupied by the District School".

A year later, Hugh Gamble and his wife Mary Disbrough (Disbro) / Gamble sold a

portion of this land containing the school house lot to his son Hugh Gamble Jr.

 

By 1858 the property was owned by George W. Moore, and in 1873, the land upon

which the schoolhouse stood was formally sold to the Sharon Twp. Board of Education

by the then owners Albert and Mary Elizabeth Moore.

 

An article in the Shelby News in 1877 labels this district school as the

"Crall's" school. It was most probably a reference to the Robert Crall

family who lived a short distance from thsi school and had many family

members who taught or were associated with this school district.

 

The portion of the 1873 atlas (above) shows that the land to the west and north

of the schoolhouse was then owned by Robert and Abigail King / Kerr. Maria,

one of the Kerr daughters had married John H. Gamble in 1863. John was

Hugh Gamble Sr.'s oldest son from his marriage to Mary Disbro. By the early 1880's

John and Maria Kerr / Gamble were living in a house just to the west of the current

Gamble schoolhouse. Maria died in 1897, but the home that was the closest to the

schoolhouse remained a Gamble home for several more years.

 

During the 1890s, John C. Kerr, a son of William and Sarah Campbell / Kerr

taught several times at the Gamble School, so there was a possibility that the

school might have been named Kerr school. However, the property was originally

owned by the Gamble family and remained in the possesion of the Gamble family

for many years and when it was finally sold, the closest house to the schoolhouse

still belonged to a Gamble family. These seem to have been the overriding reasons

for naming Sharon Twp. District #4 "Gamble School".

 

 

 

Gamble School About A Century Ago

 

Photo ca. 1900 - courtesy of Haven Hummel

(More photo information)

 

 

Photo ca. 1902 - courtesy of Haven Hummel

(More photo information)

 

 

 

Photo ca. 1902 - courtesy of Haven Hummel

(More photo information)

 

 

 

1923 -24 Gamble School Souvenir

 

 

 

 

Gamble School Over 60 years Ago

 

Photo 1940 - courtesy of David Tarvin

(More photo information)

 

 

Gamble School About 50 years Ago

 

Photo ca. 1949 - courtesy of Janet Viers - Ansley

(More photo information)

 

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Gamble School Teachers

 

1853 - 1854	.
1854 - 1855	A. Nicholson
1855 - 1856	Miss C. Kerr (prob. Cornelia) - d/o Robert & Abigail
1856 - 1857	Nancy Fowler
1857 - 1858	George G. Richey
1858 - 1859	George G. Richey
1859 - 1860	Mary Lambert
1860 - 1861	John Crall / Martha J. Brown
1861 - 1862	Burton D. Sipe
1862 - 1863	Burton D. Sipe
1863 - 1864	Burton D. Sipe
1864 - 1865	Burton D. Sipe / Sarah M. Chambers
1865 - 1866
1876 - 1877	Miss. Tilla Rogers - d/o Philander & Sarah
1877 - 1878	.
1878 - 1879	Willard J. Hershiser
1879 - 1880	B. J. Williams
1880 - 1881	B. J. Williams
1881 - 1882	Mary Crall / F. J. Laser
1882 - 1883	F. J. Laser
1883 - 1884	Oliver C. Marriott / Aaron Rambo
1884 - 1885	Aaron Rambo
1885 - 1886	Philander B. Rogers
1886 - 1887	Rufus B. Hayes / Vida Buckingham
1887 - 1888	Philander B. Rogers / Anna Crall
1888 - 1889	Edwin E. Peck / Anna Crall
1889 - 1890	J. C. Kerr / Mary Morton
1890 - 1891	J. C. Kerr / Ella H. Stone
1891 - 1892	J. C. Kerr / Anna Crall
1892 - 1893	E. J. Dwire / Anna Crall / Viola Molder
1893 - 1894	F. L. Kemp / Viola Molder
1894 - 1895	Sylvester Tucker
1895 - 1896	Sylvester Tucker
1896 - 1897	Lada Bloom / J. C. Kerr
1897 - 1898	Boyd Fackler / Allis Haisley / Philander B. Rogers
1898 - 1899	Philander B. Rogers
1899 - 1900	R. P. Bricker / Clara Dick
1900 - 1901	Elmer Tattershaw / Clara Dick
1901 - 1902	Clara Dick
1902 - 1903	Clara Dick
1903 - 1904	William L. May / Clara Dick
1904 - 1905	Clara Dick / Howard C. Crall
1905 - 1906	Clara Dick
1906 - 1907	Ruth Kochendorfer / Austin Fielus? / Gertrude Ruse
1907 - 1908	Mrs. F. L. Black
1908 - 1909	Mrs. F. L. Black
1909 - 1910	Mrs. F. L. Black
1910 - 1911	Ralph Rousch
1911 - 1912	.
1912 - 1913	Wayne Shafer
1913 - 1914	C. W. Striker
1914 - 1915	Floyd M. Teeter *
1915 - 1916	Floyd Teeter / Pearl Mc Cracken & Alice Stephens (Music)
1916 - 1917	Pearl Mc Cracken / Ruby Dolittle
1917 - 1918	Ruby Dolittle
1918 - 1919	Ruby Dolittle
1919 - 1920	Edwin Rinehart / Annabelle Powell
1920 - 1921	Annabelle Powell
1921 - 1922	Ruth Wolf
1922 - 1923	Ruth Wolf
1923 - 1924	Ruth Wolf
1924 - 1925	.
1925 - 1926	Martha Stine
1926 - 1927	.
1927 - 1928	.
1928 - 1929	Mrs. Helene Carsey
1929 - 1930	Mrs. Helene Carsey
1930 - 1931	Mrs. Carsey/ Mrs. Grace Stroh
1931 - 1932	Mrs. Grace Stroh
1932 - 1933	Mrs. Grace Stroh
1933 - 1934	Mrs. Grace Stroh
1934 - 1935	Mrs. Grace Stroh
1935 - 1936	Mrs. Grace Stroh
1936 - 1937	Mrs. Grace Stroh
1937 - 1938	.
1938 - 1939	H. R. Cutnaw
1939 - 1940	H. R. Cutnaw
1940 - 1941	H. R. Cutnaw / Mrs Stella Clabaugh / Gertrude Majors
1941 - 1942	Mrs. Gladys Query
1942 - 1943	Mrs. Gladys Query
1943 - 1944	Mrs. Gladys Query
1944 - 1945	Mrs. Gladys Query
1945 - 1946	Mrs. Gladys Query
1946 - 1947	Mrs. Gladys Query
1947 - 1948	Mrs. Gladys Query
1948 - 1949	Mrs. Esther Lash
1949 - 1950	Mrs. Esther Lash
1950 - 1951	Gertrude Majors
1951 - 1952	Gertrude Majors

 

* In August of 1914, the six Sharon Township Schools were consolidated. Gamble

School received the students from the suspended Vernon and Will Schools. Mrs.

George Klinkle was employed to transport pupils to and from Gamble School.

 

 

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