newspaper clipping dated 1952 and picture
Pupils of the one-teacher Mt. Joy School in 1916
First grade tots on up throught the eight grade big boys were taught in the one-teacher Mt. Joy School in 1916 by Mrs. Annie Bumpus, pictured at the right corner of the entrance, according to Mrs. Paul Anderson, Columbia, Route 7, who brought the picture to The Daily Herald.Students in the picture are left to right first row----
Jesse Ernest McKennon, Cecil Pollock, Willis McClain, Louis Irwin, Carl King.
Second row---Lucille Hill (Mrs George Shaw), Neva Goodman(Mrs. Shelton Hayes), Gladys Johnson, Marie Brown (deceased), Iva Gilmore (Mrs. W. C. Whitwell), Harold McClain, J.O. Hill, Clifford________,John Cocke, Joe Elmer Johnson, Louise Brown (Mrs Lester Bennett), Sam Sims, Mary Milliken, Ruby, Maxie Cocke, Bertha McKennon.
Third row----Era Goodman (Mrs. Sidney Johnson), Bernice McLain(McClain)(Mrs Barney Luckett), Margaret Milliken(Mrs. Chester Leland, deceased), Mildren Vanzille, Hermie Sims (deceased),
Top row----Pauline Kennedy (Mrs. Sherman Brown), Mary Pollock (Mrs. Frank Jones. deceased), Annie Johnson (Mrs Ceary Cothran), Iris McClain, Lillian Brown (Mrs Oscar McClain), Rena Cocke (Mrs. Tee Stills), Edith Goodman (Mrs Loyd Wilson), Autie Gilmore (deceased), Grace Bailey (Mrs. Paul Anderson), Mrs. Bumpus, Claude King, Raymond McClain, Garland Gilmore, Clarence Grimes.
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Mary Bob McClain
McLean,McClain,Cooper,Hunt, Kennedy, Stockard, Kilpatrick