Schools
David Barrow's 19 rules for his Lulbegrud School House for the 1801 school year. Mr. Barrow was actually using the Lulbegrud Baptist Church for his school, which was located a couple miles southwest of Mt. Sterling just off today's Prewitt Pike.David Barrow was also the preacher at the Lulbegrud church for a few years. He was an early, outspoken abolitionist and at the heart of a controversial topic in those days. He was forced out of his baptist association in 1807, taking at least nine churches with him and forming a separate association in support of his anti-slavery views. When he died in 1819, he was buried on his farm a short distance away from the Lulbegrud church.
David's grandson, Asa C. Barrow, wrote this article about the Lulbegrud School. Asa's mother was a Scholl, another early family to the area.
From the Notable Kentucky African Americans Database:
African American Schools in Mt. Sterling and Montgomery County
From AppalachianHistory.net
Kentucky's Moonlight Schools
Cora Wilson was born on 17 January 1875, on a small farm on the banks of Sycamore Creek in rural Montgomery County, the sturdy, dark-eyed third child of Jeremiah Wilson and his twenty-five-year-old wife, Ann Halley Wilson, was said to be like her mother, although perhaps more headstrong. Cora remembered her parents fondly, noting that they encouraged her love of reading and, despite modest financial circumstances, kept her supplied with books and magazines. Family stories describe Cora as a responsible and serious child whose mother trusted her with much of the care of her younger siblings, a responsibility she carried into adulthood.
The book: Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools
Morehead State University has an extensive digital collection on Kentucky's Moonlight Schools.
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