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:
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