Spaulding, Elizabeth 1859-1933

SPAULDING

Posted By: S. Ferrall - IAGenWeb volunteer
Date: 3/12/2016 at 19:15:35

The death of Miss Elizabeth Spaulding, 74, second grade teacher in the Waukon schools for 53 years, was recently noted in the Waukon Republican and Standard. Her demise occurred at the home of her brother, Ed Spaulding at Gothenburg, neb., where she fell and fractured her hip as she was alighting from a car two weeks before her death.

She was born on Lansing ridge and lived her entire life in Allamakee county. She attended the Waukon schools and was a member of the first graduating class from the local high school. She taught one year at Waterville, after which she was elected to teach the second grade of the Waukon schools. She continued to teach in that same grade for 53 years, retiring last spring. She was 74 years old on September 1.

Many of her pupils during the past few years have been children of her former pupils, and several grandparents are proud of the fact that heir children and their grandchildren had the same teacher in the second grade that they themselves had, though half a century elapsed between their childhood school days and those of their grandchildren.

It is doubtful if her record for continuous teaching service in one school and in one grade ever has been excelled.

~Sumner Gazette
Sumner, Bremmer co. Iowa
October 26, 1933

Note: burial is in Oakland cemetery, Waukon