The following letter was written by Alice Violett around 1998 at a request by Louise (Hood) Couch to capture memories of the old Mission Ridge School that sat near the Veteran’s Hospital. For more information, see the post “Rascal Ridge School”. Continue reading
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Robert L. Sparks was born on March 18, 1876, near where Peabody No. 3 mine once stood, about one mile northwest of Marion. Continue reading
This old country school once sat outside of Marion, Illinois at the turn of the century. Its location is shown on a 1908 Williamson County Plat map. When the government began talking of buying the surrounding property up for a new VA hospital, Oldham Paisley had the foresight to grab this picture. Continue reading