My grandmother Maude Hersman deGruyter taught school at Buckhannon Run a hundred years ago, when she was 22.
She had lots of Hersman and Waggoner cousins there. It is just up the road from Berlin, where her Hersman, Morrison, and Waggoner grandparents grew up, and a few miles from the Stalnakers and McWhorters. The old school, next to the church, looks like it was maintained until recently.
I have her grade book, for the school year 1908-1909. Besides class lists and grades, it has some commonplaces and notes from pupils at the end of the year.




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11Oct2010 at 3:54 pm
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02Jan2012 at 11:05 pm
Lu Hickey
Hello,,,
My maternal line from WVA is Matilda Hershman who married John E Hall…would you know of them ?? I am trying to trace,
Rosa Jane Howell daughter and only child of Jeremiah Bell and Barbara Clifton Howell was my mother…
Thank you, you have a lovely site..