The New Year
It has been a while since I’ve done a major update to the site, but I’m in the middle of adding quite a bit of new content.
Pettiscountypioneers.com has been in existence for about a year, now. I am not a web designer. This is a learn-as-you-go labor of love. Occasionally, I look at a page and just scratch my head. If you ever look at a page and say, “That makes no sense at all,” you’re right. It doesn’t.
For the near term, the emphasis is on getting content onto the site. In the longer term, I’ll work on refining it so that it’s better organized and more attractive.
I’ve added a couple of letters from about George Harvey Marshall’s family. One is by Lizzie Marshall and speaks of the deaths of both oldest brother Elic (James Alexander Marshall), and sister Myra Jane (Emira Jane Marshall Parrish).
The second is written by Alice, George Harvey’s third wife, and writes of the death of brother William Marshall. We know from his report card that George Marshall could write at least passably, but he didn’t seem to enjoy doing it. His many letters are written in various hands, indicating that his spouse, or his children, did the actual writing.
I’ve also added Aunt Nona’s recollections of the South Side School. South Side School served the children of Spring Fork. Augusta Wynona Elliott attended school there from 1874 on. In 1914 & 1915, Isaac Burford Elliott and Mary Frances Elliott started first grade there in a different, modern building.
I remember peering into the windows of the school house once when I was a child, and listening to stories of how my mother rode two miles across the prairie to school. In winter, she’d have to get off her horse and knock the balls of snow from his hooves with her ruler.
The last time I saw the school house would have been in the 1970’s, and I believe it was in the process of being converted into a home. You can read about the school under School Days.
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Monday, January 21, 2008
