 The
Reasor School was named for John Comstock Reasor, carpenter, who built
the first school building.
Reasor was one of the first free rural schools in Grayson County. Accounts from Byron Thornton, Reasor school district extended from the edge of Denison to the Red River. The building was located one fourth mile west of the Baers' Ferry Road. With the district being so large, Reasor #2 was built for famlies on the other side of the district. This became Riverside school located where the Denison Dam Spillway is now. Mr. Thornton also recalls that a third school was build in the River Bottom but only was in existence for two years. Some of the Riverside School teachers include: Marvis White, Mattie Bartee, Grant Schmidt, Exie Foreman Harden, Sadie Ball, Josephine Spencer, Maggie Summerville. Sadie Ball recalled that while she was teaching at Riverside, it had to be moved to make way for the Denison Dam. She moved with the school to Reasor where she was principal of the two-teacher combined school. Mrs. Dora Fowler remembers that the Riverside school was moved about 30 feet north of the Reasor School. Families living in the Reasor and Riverside communities included: Hendrix, Mixon, Charlie Holder, W. D. Sanders, Earl Lanham, Thornton, Barnhill, Cloer, Henry Rice, Alberty Young, Melvin Turpin, Wesley Weaver, Gills, Fred Davis, Biggerstaff, Morrison. Information was contributed by Mildred Young Lomoreaux, Mr. M. B. Thorntom and Saide Ball Swift.  Riverside School History Schools Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |