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Bethel School District #6 was located three miles south of Whitewright.  The school building was built about 1870.  The name, Bethel, came from the Bible. Genesis 28:12 reads where Jacob dreamed and "Behold a ladder and angels of God ascending and descending on it."

J. P. & Annie B. Autrey donated the plot for the church and a school.  During the 1934-1935 school term, there were two teachers and seventy students. Bethel school was consolidated with Whitewright in the mid 1940s. The school house became a part of the church and the Bethel Cemetery is just south of the church.
Families whose children attended Bethel School are:
Alexander Autry Badgett Benson
Blanton Cowart Davis Fleming
Gosnell Hedspeth Holland Jones
Keal McGinnis Prigmore Smith
Stuteville Vestal Walker Williams
Windell Wordon


Some of the Teachers were: Trustees were:
Georgia Autry Gasnell M. V. Williams
Susie Noe Hal Benson
Vera Holland Biggerstaff Guss Alexander
Sally Hamilton Taylor Autry
Herman Bedford Zack Jones
Annibel Stevens Terrell Cowart
Margaret Lowery
Mr. Blanton




Bethel School #6 History
Susan Hawkins
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