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Mary Selena “Augusta” (Watson)
Mizner, born 6 August 1913 and died 7 April 1970, attended Elementary Union
School, Cecil County, Maryland, in 1920. Mary’s parents are Arthur (NMI) Watson
and Emma C. (Peterson) Watson. Her mother’s parents are George Peter Peterson
and Selena Augusta (Borland) Peterson of Cecil County, Md. The Peterson’s farm
was ¼ mile south of the Flint Hill Church and Cemetery or about 1½ mile north of
the Union School.
Geraldine Lucille (Peterson) McKeown provided the
current 1920 Union School location. Union School was located on Union School
Road that ran parallel to Route 273 from Little Egypt Road to Route 316 just
above Appleton Glen (referred to as Appleton to Kemblesville Road). Most of
Union School Road no longer exists as a public road as the road was closed when
Mr. William Du Pont purchased the land. A small portion of Union School Road is
still in public use and is off Little Egypt Road.
Ruth Eleanor (Swain)
Underwood provided the Union School information. The school was a wooden
one-room elementary schoolhouse that contained seven grades. Ruth also commented
that the Maryland School System at that time only had 11 grades, elementary
school had grades 1 through 7 and high school had grades 8 through 11. Ruth
remembers the school was still in use on 4 September 1944 when she was married
in the Flint Hill Church. In 1945, Mr. William Du Pont purchased the Peterson
farm now owned by George Bushrod Underwood father-in-law to Ruth. Mr. William Du
Pont also purchased the school property. Both properties were used by the Du
Pont family for fox hunting. The school latter burnt and school site is no
longer visible. A new Union School was built closer to Route 316.
The teacher is Miss Ida Louisa Kimble, born 6 Aug 1877, in Fair Hill,
Maryland, along with 22 students. Mary Selena “Augusta” (Watson) Mizner, age 7,
is in the middle row, second from Miss Ida. Lilian Brown Watkins is in the center
of the front row.
Mary in her latter years marked the photograph with ink
with most of the names. If you identify any of the students during your
review of the photograph, please let us know so that their name can be added.
Miss Ida Louisa Kimble, age 74, retired schoolteacher,
died Wednesday, 25 June 1952 in Wilmington General Hospital. She had been ill
for some time.
Miss Kimble lived at 167 West Main Street, Newark, with
her sister and only survivor, Evelyn T. Kimble. The daughter of the late John H.
and Sarah T. Kimble of Appleton, Md., she was a graduate of the Maryland State
Normal School at Baltimore.
Until her health failed about 20 years ago,
Miss Kimble taught in the schools of Cecil County, Md., for 27 years. She was a
member of the Retired Teacher’s Association of Cecil County and head of Elk
Chapter, DAR. She also was active in Head of Christiana Presbyterian Church and
its Willing Workers Society. In addition to her sister, she leaves two nieces
and a nephew, one of whom is Mrs. Amos Jaquette of Newark.
Funeral
services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the R.T. Jones Funeral Home,
Newark, with interment in Head of Christiana Cemetery. Friends may call Friday
evening at the funeral home.
Source: Extracted from the library of Geraldine Lucille (Peterson) McKeown, The Kimble Family: From Z to A, by Seruch Titus Kimble, Jr., and Helen Matchett Kimble, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, 1984, Item 6, Page 188.
Contributed by Major Arthur Craig Mizner, USAF Retired,3904 Burkett Drive,Fort Worth, TX 76116-1330, phone 817/244-4486.
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