Front Row, L-R:
Eileen Smith, Margie Edgmon1, Ruth Edgmon2, Laura Sandlin, Spencer Collins, Willie Reed,
Spencer Edgmon3, Troy Reed, Mary Gunkle, Walter Edgmon4, Horace Edgmon5
2nd Row, L-R:
Joe Reed, Beecher Edgmon6, Leo Smith, Nellie Gunkle, Ella Watson, Alba Edgmon7, Lockie Thomas
3rd Row, L-R:
Earl Sandlin, Carly Reed, Berry Sandlin, Karl Edgmon8, Roy Edgmon9, Leonard Edgmon10,
May Gunkle, Vola Watson11, Kezia Collins, Sallie Watson, Fannie Edgmon12,
Teacher, Walsie Culberson
3 in Back:
Wilse Edgemon13, Jake Collins, Ed Sandlin, Henry Edgmon14
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1 Margie Edgmon was daughter of George Edgmon and Minnie Thomas...George Edgmon was son of James Edgmon and Susie Harderson...James Edgmon was son of William Edgmon and Martha Deatherage.
2 Ruth Edgmon was daughter of Lum Edgmon and Darcus Sams...Lum Edgmon was son of James Edgmon and Susie Harderson...
3 Spencer Edgmon was son of George Edgmon and Minnie Thomas...
4 Walter Edgmon is son of Lum Edgmon and Darcus Sams...
5 Horace Edgmon was son of Lum Edgmon and Darcus Sams...
6 Beecher Edgmon was son of Lum Edgmon and Darcus Sams...
7 Alba Edgmon was daughter of George Edgmon and Minnie Thomas...
8 Karl Edgmon was odest child of George Edgmon and Minnie Thomas...
9 Roy Edgmon was known as Red Roy, was son of Lum Edgmon and Darcus Sams...
10 Leonard Edgmon was son of George Edgmon and Minnie Thomas...
11 Vola Watson is daughter of John T. Watson and Mary Thomas, married Roy Edgmon; not Red Roy, but Roy Edgmon who was great grandson of Philemon Edgmon and Abigail Sparks.
12 Fannie Edgmon was daughter of Lum Edgmon and Darcus Sams...
13 Wilse Edgmon was son of Lum Edgmon and Darcus Sams...
14 Henry Edgmon was son of Lum Edgmon and Darcus Sams...
Oak Grove was a small community between Mossville and Swain in Newton County, Arkansas. The school was phased out when consolidated schools came into being...there is no longer a community known as Oak Grove. The land where the school was located is now owned by Noah Woods. His wife was Eileen Edgmon, great grand daughter of Philemon Edgmon and Abigail Sparks.
Note the 'wanted poster' on the school building...when my grandma ran the post office at Mossville she
received wanted posters and they were distributed to the stores and schools in the community. Many of the schools were held
in church houses. Come Sunday morning the posters were taken down, and after service were nailed back up. Grandma said that
nailing up posters was a chore that children would fight over...one that they wanted a turn at doing. When grandpa would hear
grandma talking of taking the posters down and nailing them back up he'd say, "Some (people) are like that. They hang their
religion up as they walk out the church house door."
Submitted to Edgmon and Kin Scrapbook® by, Judy Tate.
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