- - - MYERS SCHOOL - - -

Sharon Twp., Richland Co., School District # 2

(Built in the Summer of 1879, closed about 1918)

 

 

 

 

 

 

School Location and Early Neighboring Landowners

 

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

Location:  South-West of State Route 39 & Davis Road Intersection (gone).

 

 

On August 21, 1829, Henry Myers purchased the 160 acres of land of the

NW quarter of section 11, in what was then Vernon Twp., Richland

County, Ohio. This section is now a part of Sharon Twp.

 

In December of 1837, Henry Myers deeded a portion of that land (the

very southeastern corner) to the Elders of the Lutheran German

Reformed Church of Richland County. This document indicates that

there was in existance at that time, a meeting house, a burying ground,

and a schoolhouse to be called the Myers Meeting House. 1

 

On May 1853, on the motion of John Myers, the Sharon Township School

Board voted to empower the local directors of School District # 8 (which

1 year later became School District # 2), to levy a tax of $450.00 for the

purpose of building a school house in this district. The board authorized

those local directors to procure and secure a site for a school house in this

district by lease so long as they may occupy it for school purposes.

 

This appears to be the beginning of the existance of at least the second

school house to be known as Myers School, in what came to be Sharon

Township School District # 2. John Myers and his father Henry, were

associated with this school district from it's inception. The John Myers

property can be seen in the upper left corner, of the two above maps.

 

John Myers continued to serve as a local school director of District #2

school into the late 1860's. Later in the mid 1880's, A. W. Myers served

as a teacher in this district.

 

Note that the Myers School house, shown on the maps above, is located on

property adjacent to William Douglas. It is across the road from the Myers

Church & Cemetery, which was located on land adjacent to the property

(in 1896) of Peter Will, who was a son of Valentine Will, a director of the

Will School in District # 5. Peter had taught at Will School prior to

enlisting in Co. F, 163rd Regt. O. V. I. in the Civil War.

 

The Henry Myers family came to Richland County in ca. 1829 from

Stark County, Ohio and previously, from Adams County, Pennsylvania.

 

 

Myers School Teachers

 

1853 - 1854
1854 - 1855	S. S. Bloom
1855 - 1856	.
1856 - 1857	Pauline Caldwell / L. C. Gregg
1857 - 1858	J. B. Everett
1858 - 1859	Alvira H. Madden
1859 - 1860	M. Buckingham (poss. Matilda d/o Christopher & Nancy
1860 - 1861	H. G. Orton / Olive C. Fox
1861 - 1862	.
1862 - 1863	T. Rowe
1863 - 1864	T. Rowe / Minerva Myers
1864 - 1865	Minerva Myers / Mary Jones
1865 - 1866
1866 - 1867
1876 - 1877	Miss Merrott
1877 - 1878	.
1878 - 1879	Lizzie E. Shepherd
1879 - 1880	Oliver G. Brown
1880 - 1881	Mary Crall / S. B. Chambers
1881 - 1882	Avery E. Davis
1882 - 1883	John M. Shott
1883 - 1884	Ada F. Chew
1884 - 1885	A. W. Myers (prob. Alvah W. Myers)
1885 - 1886	A. W. Myers
1886 - 1887	James Gundrum
1887 - 1888	James Gundrum / Anna Humphrey
1888 - 1889	James Gundrum / Anna Humphrey
1889 - 1890	James Gundrum / Nettie Douglas
1890 - 1891	James Gundrum / Nettie Douglas
1891 - 1892	James Gundrum / Nettie Douglas
1892 - 1893	James Gundrum / Ella Smith
1893 - 1894	Ella Smith / Hattie Lukins / Harry Brubaker
1894 - 1895	O. O. Sheeley
1895 - 1896	Ella Smith / Lucille Taylor
1896 - 1897	Ida Hutchinson / Lou Taylor
1897 - 1898	Avery E. Davis / Amy Esterline
1898 - 1899	Avery E. Davis / Lottie Gundrum
1899 - 1900	Lottie Gundrum / Mamie Johnston / William L. May
1900 - 1901	Mamie Johnston / William L. May
1901 - 1902	Mamie Johnston
1902 - 1903	Mamie Johnston
1903 - 1904	Mamie Johnston / Lou Taylor
1904 - 1905	Mamie Johnston / Elizabeth Dick
1905 - 1906	H. R. Carlisle / William L. May
1906 - 1907	Ethel Major / William L. May
1907 - 1908	William L. May / Laura Bell
1908 - 1909	William L. May / F. Leroy Black
1909 - 1910	F. Leroy Black / Alva Kemp
1910 - 1911	Helen Sprague
1911 - 1912	Frances Wiley
1912 - 1913	Frances Wiley
1913 - 1914	Mrs. Minnie Wobler
1914 - 1915	Aug. 17, 1914 - School Suspended (small enrollment) 2
1915 - 1916	School Suspended (small enrollment) 2
1916 - 1917	School Suspended (small enrollment) 2
1917 - 1918	Myers School Suspended indefinitely.

 

 

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1. A copy of this document was obtained through the courtesy of the Myers Cemetery Association.

2. Students were transferred to Morton School.

 

 

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