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Nebraska Ancestree
Summer 1988 Issue Vol.11 No.1 pg. 31- 33
Diaries of Ethelinda Walker Spaur
submitted by Annette Spaur Newby
Extracted and transcribed by Kathie Harrison  
Nebraska State Genealogical Society

Marriages of Pupils

Miss Ella STONE to Mr. Clinton FRYE  
27 Dec. 1893 Wayne, NE

Sarah Fitz SIMMONS to Martin BRADFORD  
19 March 1897 Wakefield, NE

Lillie OLLIVER and Lee Fitz SIMMONS  
1897

Graduates of Elocution
Wayne Normal College

Lucy E. BUFFINGTON 1893
Cora B. SIMMONS 1894
Mary SKACE 1894
O. L. TAYLOR 1893
John McCLUSKEY 1894
Lula MEARS 1895

Graduates of Science

H. C. MASON 1893
Dorr H. CARROLL 1894
Miss Maggie CARR 1895
Mr. THEOBOLD 1895
Mr. BOLLENBAUGH 1895
L. M. POWERS 1894
Miss Anna MEEK 1895
Mr. Clem THEOBOLD 1895
Mr. Ed KING 1895

 The Dry Goods Box School
Carroll, Wayne County
7 May 1894

Nellie PORTER 13
Joe PORTER 11
Jim PORTER 8
Kittie PORTER 6
Jennie DAVIDSON 9
Mabel HUNT 4
Minnie HUNT 13
Roy HUNT 13

Freeman HUNT 5
Arthur HUNT 7
Maggie JONES 11
David JONES 8
Nettie JONES 6
Emma DAVIS 6
George DAVIS 8
Roy HUNT 10

Bloody One School
Wakefield, Dixon County – 5 Sept. 1894

Sadie FITZSIMMONS 15
Alice FITZSIMMONS 5
John FITZSIMMONS 6
Lee FITZSIMMONS 20
Carl LEONARD 13
Amy LEONARD 8
Floyd SHELLINGTON 11
Chan JOSLYN 9
Clifford JOSLYN 17
Oliver DRISKELL 12
Nellie FITZSIMMONS 9
Gertie FITZSIMMONS 13
Tommy FITZSIMMONS 11
Eddie LEONARD 14
Ada LEONARD 11
Ella SHELLINGTON 15
Clara JOSLYN 9
Ralph JOSLYN 15
Willie DRISKELL 7

Brooks School
Randolph Sept. 1895

Ira STEELE 15
Clayton STEELE 11
Leslie STEELE 5
Effie LAWRENCE 13
Victoria LAWRENCE 9
Martin ANDERSEN 9
Blanche GROAT 10
Maggie LAWRENCE 7
Alvin STEELE 13
Grace STEELE 7
Stewart FERBER 9
Izora LAWRENCE 11
Chris ANDERSEN 12
Ethel GROAT 12
John GROAT 8
Fletcher LAWRENCE 15

South Prong School
Whitman, Grant County – 1897

Perry HANS 11
Ralph WEAVER 8
Lester TAYLOR 7
Joy RIGGS 6
Dora MURRAY 5
Fred SHEPARDSON 8
Norval HANS 9
Ralph TAYLOR 5
Mae TAYLOR 8
Myrtle MURRAY 10
Ed SHEPARDSON 14
Jennie MURRAY 15

Whitman School 1898

Jessie WALKER 16
Mamie LARSEN 11
Lewis BURR 13
Mattie WALKER 8
Wallace GALLUP 6
Ruth CAREY 8
Bert KINCAID 14
Phil PROCTOR 6
Effel PHILLIPS 10
Lillard WHITE 7
Roy GUDGEL 10
George CARPENTER 16
Walter STEVENS 9
Glen WHITE 13

Lyle McNALL 7
Walter SEWELL 11
Elmer BURR 19
Nat CARPENTER 5
Frank BURR 15
Herman WALKER 14
Helen GALLUP 8
John BURR 11
Jennie KINCAID 15
Joe ERNY 10
Mildred MASON 6

Anna GUDGEL 9
Eleazer CARPENTER 14
Frankie STEVENS 6
Albert STEVENS 4
Enid McNALL 5
Billy CARPENTER 9
Nellie LARSEN 13
Helene McNALL 5
Myrta SEWELL 8
James BURR 16
Claude TROOP 5

According to "Grant County It’s Friends and Neighbors" published Spring 1980, Ethel Walker was the first teacher of the school in Whitman, Nebraska.

Huffman School – 1900

Ira HUFFMAN 18
Marion HUFFMAN 10
Myra LOMBARD 14
Bird HUFFMAN 15
Mabel HUFFMAN 13
Henry LOMBARD 11

Huffman School – Lena – 1902

Maude REUTER 20
Otto REUTER 11
Claude REUTER 10
Raymond GRAGG 8
Floyd GRAGG 13
Marge WILSON 5
Arthur STODDARD 10
Lucy COGGER 15
Louis COGGER 13
Edith WILSON 16
Faye WILSON 7
Madge WILSON 5
Archie STODDARD 12
Bertha STODDARD 8

Hoffman School – 1903

Rose O’ BRIEN 17
John O’ BRIEN 15
Jim O’ BRIEN 13
Ora O’ BRIEN 9
Violet HANEY 5
Estelle O’ BRIEN 7
Marion STODDARD 5

Huffman School – 1903

Iva MOORE 11

The Huffman School was at the Huffman Ranch near Lena, Nebraska. The HUFFMAN family had come from Iowa and needed a schoolteacher for their children. My father, Charles SPAUR, had come out from Iowa, after the death of his wife and two baby girls, to be a ranch hand for the HUFFMAN’S, whom he had known in Iowa. There he met the local schoolmarm and they were married in Whitman 12 July 1904.

The Frazier School – Wayne – 1893

Ida MURPHY 16
Will MURPHY 14
Jim MURPHY 11
Walter MURPHY 7
Josie FRAZIER 10
Willie FRAZIER 6
Ivyl BRUNER 10
Ella STONE 15
Anna BAKER 8
Eddie BAKER 10
Bessie STONE 13
Anna STONE 8
Amelia BAKER 13
Willie BAKER 16
Edna HARDY 12
Commodore HARDY 19
Minnie HARRISON 8
Walter HARRISON 5
Windle BAKER 16
John HARDY 16
Ona HARDY 14

The teacher was Ethel Walker who was only 16 in June 1893. As you can see, some of her pupils were as old or older than she was. I have a teacher’s contract dated Nov. 1893 for her to teach School District #51 of Wayne County, NE. She being a qualified teacher of said County.

Fairview School Dec. 1899

Mary ROBIN 11
Georgie ROBIN 6
Mary HAINES 10
Jessie BLACK 11
Guy ROOT 14
Della PERTERSEN 8
Oscar STEVENS 14
Johnnie OTT 8
Mabel JONES 7
Susie HOWARTH 25
Harry HOWARTH 25
Eddie KOSKOVICH 8
Joe KOSKOVICH 10
Willie SCHUTT 7

Mattie HAINES 12
Gertie PERTERSEN 7
Jimmie STEVENS 10
Archie STEVENS 12
Frank HOWARTH 10
Pauline KOSKOVICH 7
Alex KOSKOVICH 12
Ella SCHUTT 9
Scott HUFF 18
Charley ROBIN 14
Arthur ROBIN 17

Chara HAINES 15
Marie KENNY 7
Ethel HAINES 6
Della BLACK 15
Otto BLACK 18
Marvin ROOT 16
Grista ROOT 16
Della STEVENS 7
Edgar STEVENS 19
Grace JONES 9

Howard JONES 5
Jessie HOWARTH 8
Nina TAYLOR 9
John KOSKOVICH 15
Frank SCHUTT 14
Charles HUFF 13
Leona KENNY 5
Elizabeth THEOPHILUS 11
Katie AHRENS 8

Ethel Walker also taught at this school – spring 1900.

Fairview School 1899 – 1900

Joe PORTER 17
James PORTER 14
Susie HOWARTH 12
Jessie HOWARTH 8
Mary HAINES 10
Nina TAYLOR 9
Willie SCHUTT 7
Arthur ROBINS 17
Charlie HUFF 13
Scott HUFF 18

Gusta ROOT 16
Franz SCHUTT 14
Mattie HAINES 12
Clara HAINES 15
Charlie ROBINS 14
Oscar STEPHENS 14
Archie STEPHENS 12
Alex KOSKOVICH 12
Harry HOWARTH 15
Ella SCHUTT 9
Otto BLACK 18
Marvin ROOT 16
John KOSKOVICH 15
Frank HOWARTH 19

Fairview School – Spring 1900

Kittie PORTER 12
Katie AHRENS 8
Gertie PETERSEN 7
Grace JONES 9
Jimmie STEVENS 10
Della BLACK 15
Mary ROBINS 11
Jessie BLACK 11
Stella PETERSEN 8
Stella STEVENS 7
Elizabeth THEOPHILUS 11