Christopher
Drake Reasor came south with the
railroad and was in Grayson County, Texas by 1876. There
was also a Reasor School #94 (a second Reasor school was built later as
the district grew) which was featured at the 1936 Centennial in Dallas
with
a replica in the front of the State Fair Music
Hall. C.D. Reasor bought
the materials and had the school built because his children had to be
privately
schooled. It was the first free nine-month school in the State. My
great
grandfather, John Comstock, was a carpenter and actually built the
school.
We have pictures of the school taken about 1954. The school
was eventually
converted into a private home and may not exist today.
 I found Riverside School mentioned in a book at the Frontier Village, the Grayson County history book, vol. 2, sec. 1, pg. 101 - in the section entitled "Reasor School #94 and Riverside". It says it was one of the first free schools. Then Reasor School #2 was built for families on the other side of the district which was called Riverside School and was located at the end of the dam spillway. My mother, Florence Lucille Cook Clountz, went to that school and said that the school was between Overton (north of Pottsboro) and Denison on the river.  Reasor School History Schools Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |
