Shiloh School
1920-1921
The Ocala Evening Star reported on Christmas Eve, 1920:
In Judge Smith’s office yesterday, the judge officiating, Miss Rosalie Anderson was married to Mr. Wilbur D. Mixson. The young people will make their home near Geiger.
Rosalie described the occasion in her memoirs:
Papa [Tobis Anderson] was making
cane sirup and didn’t go with us to get married. Mr. Mixson had a new
model T Ford and Wilbur got Maxie, his brother, to take us to Ocala. I was
just 19 and they thought Mama was all that had to sign for me. For my
wedding mama made me a blue serge two piece dress. She bought me a long
winter coat, a new pair of shoes and a hat. Everyone said I looked good.
Mama and I had spent all our spare time sewing for me: two pair of pillow
cases, two sheets, two quilts, and new underwear. She gave me an iron fry
pan and an iron pot. Also she painted Grandmas old trunk for my things.
When we got to the judge in the courthouse, he said both parents had to
sign. So Maxie said he’d go back for Papa, so they all signed except Papa.
Mama said she would go back with Maxie because she knew Papa would be tired
and probably cross, but after he had changed into clean clothes and rode
back in the new Ford car he was in a good mood, and he said he really
enjoyed the ride because it was probably the first one he ever took in a
car.
J.D. Mixson and his Model T Ford
On April 24th, 1921 Abbie Stokes was married.
GRAY-STOKES
The following invitation is being issued:
“Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Stokes give in marriage their daughter, Abbie to Mr. Charles H Gray, April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred twenty-one, Sunday morning, twelve o’clock, Cedar Gove church, Gaiter Fla. You are invited to be present.”
Miss Stokes is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Stokes and by her sweet
disposition and attractive manner has won for herself a wide circle of
friends, who wish for her every happiness in her married life. Mr. Gray is a
substantial and prosperous merchant of Flemington. The couple after their
marriage will make their home in Flemington.
The Ocala Evening Star, April 19, 1921
Born in 1871 in South Carolina, Charles Henry Gray (age 50) was nineteen years older than Abbie who was 31 when they got married.
At the July 1921 school board meeting Mr. Harrell and Mr. Smith requested that Mrs. S.P. Rush be appointed as teacher for the upcoming school year which was approved. They also requested a fence be constructed around the school yard. The school board said the patrons would construct the fence, the board would provide two fence gates. In September, with declining numbers of students, Mr. Bruton and other patrons of the Central school proposed conveying the Central school students to Shiloh if it was agreeable with the trustees of Shiloh. All agreed and Mr. Harrell was giving a contract at $80 a month to transport the Central students to Shiloh. At the October school board meeting Mr. C.R. Curry, supervisor of Central school stated that the truck running from Central to Shiloh was conveying only five students who lived outside the Shiloh school district. The superintendent was ordered to investigate the claim and report at the next meeting. Mr. Curry then handed in his resignation “of his own will and accord,” and Mr. Shealy was asked to fill the vacated position. At the November school board meeting it was reported that the truck from Central to Shiloh was not making the required number of students and was given another month to make average. In December Mr. Smith and Mr. Harrell from Shiloh reported while they had six pupils in December, they would have eleven next month and wanted an additional month which was granted by the board. At the January 1922 meeting, Mr. J.M. Smith conveyed the students from Central to Shiloh reported that they had not met the required average for January and there was no prospect of doing so but the board agreed to operate it for the remainder of January. Come February Mr. Smith presented his bill for the transportation of students and the board ordered it to be paid.