Shiloh School
1918
In January Mr. R.R. Whittington, trustee, and some of the patrons of Shiloh requested that the teacher assistant be allowed to continue even though the number of students is below the required average which was granted for at least one month. The teacher, Miss Mary Gladney resigned and Mrs. C.B. Morrow was appointed as teacher.
Even though she no longer was teaching at Shiloh, Rosalie continued to
exchange postcards with Miss Abbie.
Dear Rosalie,
Your letter rec’d and it did me so much good to hear from you dear
girls. So glad I am not forgotten. Think Andrew did well with his corn.
Glad you all are getting along so well with your studies. Hurrah for
William. Guess you have heard about my being up here with Bro. who has
been very low with pneumonia but glad to say he is some better the last
few days. He is in the hospital here at Ft. Moultrie. Poor soldiers they
sure have a hard time especially when sick. Have about 75 sick in
Hospital.
Love to all land write again.
Yours
lovingly
Abbie.
Andrew is Rosalie’s brother. The reference to “Bro.” is her brother Edward Holder Stokes who served in World War I. Edward evidently had poor health, likely from exposure to nerve gas during the war. It was reported in September of 1922 that he had returned to their home in Gaiter after an absence of several months of being “in the government hospital at Asheville and then in a similar institution in Arizona.” Edward died in 1926 at the age of 30.
For the upcoming 1918-1919 school year the school board agreed that, even though they may not have enough students, Shiloh could have two teachers as long as any “excess of their equitable appropriation of county funds” be paid by the people of the community. In the same report it said, “In regard to the colored school in their district, Moore’s Pond, it was agreed to use a lodge room for the school room for the coming term.” Evidently, they did not get the old Shiloh school house after the new one was built.
On December 27th it was reported that the superintendent visited the Shiloh school in response to a request by a number of the patrons about the condition of the school being unsatisfactory. With there being a new schoolhouse, unsatisfactory likely meant the teacher(s) for “the board agreed to change teachers without prejudice against or criticism of the teachers and to send one teacher with a first-grade certificate to finish the term if a suitable one could be secured.”
Rosalie Anderson completed the eighth grade at Shiloh school at the end of the 1918-1919 term which would be the last of her schooling.