Kansas One Room
School House Project
Lone Star School -- Johnson County
The Kansas Heritage Server would like to thank Robert Marshall (rob6bobmar@aol.com) for contributing this information.
I will have to do some digging to find out what I actually sent you. Glad you have recovered from your ailments and are back on the One Room School House project for Kansas.
In general, I probably told you that I had attended Lone Star School near De Soto Kansas from 1930 to 1934. I believe it is no. 73 or 74 on the list of Johnson Co. schools. It was in Lexington Township. When I was there, there were approx. 12 students for grades 1-8, and the teacher was Miss Ruth Hambleton, later Mrs. Ruth Hambleton Douglas.
She started the same time I did, in 1930, after 2 years at Kansas Normal School at Lawrence. Her father was the banker in De Soto.
School was on the road West of De Soto, near the Kansas River, and 1/2 mile from what is now West 79th and Edgerton Road. We lived at North end of Edgerton Road in the bend of the Kansas (Kaw) river, on land purchased from the Indians by my great grandfather, probably in 1866.
I do have a good picture of the school and the students taken in 1930 or 1931.
Depending on what you want, possibly I can give you some more information. We moved to Lawrence in 1934, and I attended Woodlawn School in No. Lawrence, Lawrence Junior High School, and Liberty Memorial High School, before leaving and moving to San Diego, California in 1940 at the end of my Junior Year, with my parents.
I visited the Lane School near Edgerton in 2003, and I discovered your info on the ORSH web site either before or after that. I will endeavor to find these files among much paper that I have, but would be glad to have your further thoughts on what info you are seeking.
Saturday, February 14, 2004 2:35 PM
Home |
About |
Schools |
Library
Gallery |
ORSH List |
Links |
Old Elsmore -- Douglas County
Spring Valley -- Geary County