 Sherman, Texas In
1861 the Odd Fellow's Male and Female Institute School was organized
here. It was first presided over by Mr. F. D. Piner, who was assisted
by Mrs. Burrel Smith, Miss Kate Bradley, a music teacher, and L. H.
Davis, who was much better know as "Old Bally". This school was
situated where Mrs. Burn's residence is, but in the year of 1880 it was
moved to a place opposite the Texas and Pacific Freight Depot.
The school was conducted on the lower floor. The attendance was estimated to be above one hundred in 1932. In 1869, William Pitt Petty, minister of the Sherman Methodist Church, conducted a school in the Odd Fellows' building, assisted by J. E. Wharton, Captain LeTellier, Miss Vida Young, Miss Mollie Owen, Bob Shannon. The subjects taught were spelling, reading, writing, English, grammar, geography, arithmetic, natural philosophy, mental philosophy, history, composition, physiology, Latin, Greek, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, surveying, book-keeping, astronomy, rhetoric, chemistry. The school was called the Odd Fellows' Male and Female High School. sourceq: An Illustrated History of Grayson County Texas by Graham Landrum, 1960, pg.99 Sherman Schools by Mary D. Fleming Schools Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message |