MAURY COUNTY TENNESSEE, McCains School founded 1858

This photo of the McCains School was made about 1900. It occurred in front of the school which was located across Hwy 31 from Covey Hollow Road. The school was  in a separate building by the McCains Store. The School above had all grades but was reduced to lower grade level after the public school system was established in the early 1900s and Mynders School was built down the road toward Bigbyville. The School was closed sometime around 1920. Believe it was merged with Mynders School down the road a half mile. The original school was founded in 1855 and was held in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church Building for many years. Only four pupils can be identified so far in the photo that of two sisters and two younger brothers which includes Minnie Erwing Covey,  4th row, 1st girl on left and Maude Virginia Covey 2nd row 8th from left, Ernest Clerence Covey, 1st row 13th from left. Luther Edward Covey, 12th. boy in 1st. row. The owner of photo is Virginia Groce Joiner, daughter of Minnie Ewing Covey. The photo was loaned to this site by Mildred Cast, neice of the Covey students.
 The eldest child Ruby Barlar was probably the only one of the children of Thomas J. Barlar's to attend this school before it closed. Mynders School was less than a mile down the road toward Bigbyville from McCains and could easily have absorbed the McCains School..  [WA 01/03/02] Ruby Lee (Barlar) Austin attended this school from 1918 to about 1920. [WA 2/15/02] The Barlar family lived out Covey Hollow Road at the first southward bend in the road, but on the left side going east near Barlar Springs. The home built in 1916 was torn down in year 2000 and replaced by a modular house.