Oak Grove School Picture, 1898

Photo contributed by Sheila Berry, names provided by Larry Jones.

If you can provide additional information on any of the students in this photograph (for example: their parents' names; who the student married), please use the diagram below to reference the individual and send your information to Victoria for posting here.

    Row 1, kneeling:

  1. "Little" Hugh Godbold
  2. Lide Wise
  3. Cordy Coats
  4. Boyd Coats
  5. Downing Kirby?? (or may be #43)
  6. Adger Tarte
  7. Truss Hayes
  8. Eli Hayes
  9. Clarence Tarte
  10. Winston Bailey
  11. Stafford Berry

    12. Rows 2, 3, 4 - standing

  12. Etta Meggs
  13. Flora McLellan * parents were George B. McLellan and Sarah Sammie Dew
  14. Lizzie Meggs
  15. Lula or Tea Wise
  16. Carrie Hayes
  17. Nora Berry
  18. Gertrude Coats
  19. Lizzie Berry
  20. Georgia McLellan * parents were George B. McLellan and Sarah Sammie Dew;
    married Fred Fore
  21. Ruby Hayes
  22. Kenlaw Huggins
  23. Jim Meggs
  24. Neil Wise
  25. Cicero McLellan * parents were George B. McLellan and Sarah Sammie Dew;
    Samuel Cicero McLellan married Mattie Campbell, they had 8 children
  26. ______ Wise
  27. Myrtis Tarte
  28. Arch McLellan * parents were George B. McLellan and Sarah Sammie Dew;
    married Maude ____
  29. Sam Berry
  30. Annie Hayes
  31. Mary Hayes
  32. Nellie Hayes
  33. Hattie McLellan * parents were George B. McLellan and Sarah Sammie Dew;
    never married, she took care of her father until his death.
  34. Ora Harper
  35. Harvey Meggs
  36. Ella McLellan * parents were George B. McLellan and Sarah Sammie Dew;
    married Hugh Rogers

    37. Back row, standing

  37. Eph or Guy Moore
  38. Neal Meggs
  39. Humbert Hayes
  40. Ira Harper
  41. Bennie Hayes
  42. ______ Moore
  43. Downing Kirby?? (or may be #5)
  44. Miss Hallie Waldrop, teacher

The above identifications were kindly provided by Larry Jones, who some years ago was given the information by his Aunt Lizzy Berry (#19 above), his Aunt Mary, wife of Sam Berry (#29 above), and Herbert Hayes, brother of Eli (#8 above). Larry suggests that the building shown in the background is Bethesda Methodist Church which would have been next door to the old school building.

Many thanks to Sheila Berry and Larry Jones for sharing this treasure with us.

* additional information provided by Sandra McLellan Chace, August 2003

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