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Following is information on some, but not all of the teachers who were at Lawrence County High School in 1954.
Judith Desdemona "Desda" Garner September 1881 - 1985 Age at death - 104 Father
- William Abraham Garner, Jr. (1851-1934) Mother-Mary Artilda Riddle )1960-1931)
William Cowden "Billy" Crews Jul 1918 - 8 Sep 1998 Buried in Harpeth Hills Memory Gardens, Davidson,
Co., TN Father: James Thomas "Jim" Crews (1870-1955) Mother: Ada Melissa Comer (1874-1945)
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Mrs. Shelton (Vivian Williams) at MTSU in 1929.
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Vivian Williams Shelton 6 Apr 1907 - 14 Dec 1967 Married on 4 Apr 1934 to Collin
George Shelton (1910-?)
Margaret Ewing Old 15 Dec 1921 - 12 Sep 1995 Father: Dodge Frank Old (1892-1974) Mother:
Eleanor Jane Todd (?-1959)
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Middle Tennessee State University Dramatic Club member in 1939.
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Frances Smallwood Green abt 1916 - 4 Jan 2006 Father: Arthur W. Smallwood Mother:
Mary Looney Husband: Alford Green Frances Smallwood
Green
Posted WDXE web site on January 05, 2006
Frances Smallwood Green, age 90,
of Lawrenceburg, passed away Wednesday. She was a native of Lawrence County, a retired school teacher for Lawrence County
High School, a member of the Pulaski Street Church of Christ, a member of the Lawrence County Historical Society, Lawrence
County Retired Teachers Association, Past President of Tennessee Retired Teachers Association and National Teachers of English.
She is survived by one sister, Rose Russ of Loretto.
Funeral services will be held Saturday at one at Neal Funeral
Home with burial to follow in the Lawrence County Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be from 6-8 Friday at the funeral home.
Sarah Kirkland about 1917 - ? She was a Senior at Florence State in 1937 when she
was 20 years old. Her name was listed as Sara Kirkland and her home was listed as Florence AL.
Walter R. Hooker about 1897 - about 1970 Born in Viola, Graves, Kentucky, USA on
18 Apr 1893 to Edward Howard Hooker (1866-1949) and Mary Lutilla Hubbard (1867-1943). Mr.
Hooker had two brothers and two sisters. Walter R married Monica "Monnie" L. Lucille Green on
11 Oct 1094. He passed away on 11 Oct 1984 in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Mr. Hooker taught typing
and other business courses.
HELTON, Nella Wood Age 96 of Lawrenceburg, TN, died February 17, 2011 at Scott Health Care Center in Lawrenceburg, TN.
She was the daughter of the late Alma Pearl Taylor Helton and Thomas Hardin Helton. She was also preceded in death
by a sister, Frances Helton Patton, and a brother, Charles Taylor Helton. She is survived by a nephew, Thomas W.
Patton of Knoxville, TN; two nieces, Ann B. Patton of White Plains, NY, and Nancy Wood Patton of Nashville, TN and two great-nephews,
Thomas Patton of Murfreesboro, TN and Searle Patton of Knoxville, TN. She was a 1932 graduate of Lawrence County
High School, received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1935 from Martin College in Pulaski, TN, and a Master of Arts degree
in 1945 from George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, TN. Her teaching career, most of which was spent at
Lawrence County High School, began in 1938 and continued until her retirement in 1983. Throughout her career she
was awarded National Science Foundation grants for further study in many summer institutes in chemistry, physics, and art.
Two art institutes held in Pembroke, NC involved pottery workshops. She was an avid reader, a coin and stamp collector,
and a lover of both books and music. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, the Retired Teachers
Association, a 75 year member of the Eastern Star, and a founding member of the Pilot Club. Visitation for family
and friends will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, February 25, 2011 and a funeral service will be held at 10 a.m.
on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at Neal Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg, TN, (931) 762-9447. www.nealfuneralhome.net
Published in The Tennessean on February 22, 2011
Ida Evelyn Shelton McCrory 12 May 1907-12 December 1966 Father: Marshall Mustine
Shelton (1875-1949) Mother: Ida E. Trinkle (1880-1966) Married on 2 June 1969 to
Ramon Springer McCrory (1906-2007)
Mrs. McCrory was married to Raymon McCrory. She died in 1966 and he remarried. Ramon
was 101 years old when he died. His mother was Annie Springer from Iron City. I suspected that he was related to Patricia
Springer"s husband Lester B. Springer below it turned out that he was. Below his obituary which follows is a tree of his ancestors
back to 1735. Below that is a tree of Lester Springer's ancestors. Both Ramon McCrory and Lester Springer and
are descendents of Aaron Springer and Ruth Little who were born in 1781 and 1784 and were early Lawrence County pioneers.
Mrs.
Springer and Mrs. McCrory were married to third cousins.
Married on 10 Mar 1034 to Evelyn
Shelton (1907-1966) Married on 2 June 1969 to Annie Ruth Konig (1916-2008)
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1913 Photo of Patricia Ann Stribling
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Patricia Ann Stribling Springer 9 May 1885
- 10 September 1966 Father: Christopher
Columbus Thomas Alvarado Ebenezer Stribling (1884-1919) Mother:
Amelia Ann Waits (1849-1927)Married to Lester B. Springer (1889-1917 Married to: Lester Bateman Springer (1889-1917)
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Buried: Mimosa Cemetery, Larwrenceburg, TN
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I received the following email
from Nathan Crawford:
"Am I the only one who, for my entire life, has not known this or are you just like
me? I'm telling you, man, I feel so damn stupid.
I learned only TODAY that Miss Patricia Springer, one of only two
teachers at LCHS who actually TAUGHT me something, was the sister of T.S. Stribling, noted author of world-wide acclaim. Miss
Patricia's name was "Patricia Stribling Springer."
I was stunned to learn this, and then wondered why nothing has
ever been said about it in Lawrenceburg, and why we were never told about it. Maybe it was just me who was the dummy, I don't
know. Were you aware of it?
Although her brother claimed Wayne County as his home, they were really Lawrence Countians,
and most of his writings actually dealt with the area around Lawrence County. "The Store" earned him the Pulitzer prize in
the mid 30's. Another novel, that used Iron City as its backdrop, had a long run on Broadway.
T.S. Stribling came
to live in Clifton, but his father, C.C. Stribling was born and reared in Lawrence County. The great-grandfather and grandfather,
John Stribling and Andrew Stribling, came to Lawrence County from South Carolina in 1834. Supposedly, John Stribling made
the first complete and accurate survey of Lawrence County.
When I read all that today, I was sitting here thinking,
"How could I have gone all these years without knowing that?"
I mentioned that "Miss Patricia" was one of two teachers.
The other was Miss Sarah Kirkland. Both had a profound influence on my life.
How blessed I was to have known both
of them and to have learned under them."
T. S. Stribling's papers are available at the Tennessee Library and Archives, including correspondence with his sister Patricia
Stribling Springer. I found the following obituary of Mrs. Patricia's husband but could not find her obituary.
Lester B. Springer died at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.S. Springer
on Pulaski Street, last Saturday evening at 9 o'clock, 1917, after several years of illness of tuberculosis. Besides his father,
mother and sister, Mrs. James Gilmore, he is survived by his wife, who was before their marriage about a year ago, Miss Patricia
Stribling, a teacher in the High School here & and a member of a very prominent Wayne County family.
Funeral services
at the home Sunday were attended by an immense throng of friends and acquaintances, from the town and county. Prayer was offered
by Reverend George R. Allen and a short but feeling tribute to the character of the dead man was paid by Brother T.C. King
of the Church of Christ, the church of his wife and of which he had become a member a few months ago. There were many beautiful
flowers given by those who knew and loved him during his life.
The Vaughan Singers sang the old songs of Christian
hope and funeral triumph After the services the body was laid to rest at Mimosa.
Lester B. Springer, as a boy and
man, was universally popular, being of an especially genial, thoughtful and kindly nature. He was educated here and at the
Hawkins School in Gallatin. His schoolmates all loved him. Just as he was coming into a manhood full of hope and promise,
the dread "white scourge" took hold upon him, and in spite of all that could be done, no permanent relief could be found.
He spent much time in the West and at Asheville, North Carolina for his health but for the past year he had been at home attended
by the unceasing care of father, mother and wife.
He suffered much, but was never out of humor, never impatient, never
other but the brave kindly gentleman, thinking more of others than of himself. If pain forced a groan ever from his lips,
the hero in the heart of him followed it with a quick smile of reassurance up unto the anxious faces of the loved ones about
him. Such a life through short will not fail to leave its impress on those that knew him. Ennobling and making stronger their
own better selves. In the contemplation of so true and fine a character we can but exclaim with the Latin poet.
Our
sympathy is with those in the home left desolate with the sense of so great a loss. God help and comfort them.
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