MRS. ENOS DAVIS

DAVIS

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 1/10/2002 at 16:44:32

Leon Reporter
July 4, l895

MRS. ENOS DAVIS, of near Garden Grove, came
down Monday to visit Leon
friends for a few weeks, and also to visit
the Normal. MRS. DAVIS is
the pioneer teacher of Decatur County, having
taught the first school in
the winter of l848, when there were only
three families settled in the
county, and it was also the first school for
a distance of several
counties, east, west and north. They
borrowed four lights of glass from
a Mormon lady who was taking them to Salt
Lake City, made a puncheon
floor, stuck legs into split logs for seats,
made a stick and mud
chimney, and thus made a shool house in their
primitive western home.
In l853 the first school district was formed
at Garden Grove, the school
at that time being taught in a private house,
and some of the scholars
came a distance of four miles to attend.
MRS. DAVIS drew the first
money, $94, for the school fund of Decatur
County, for teaching the
Garden Grove School.

What a wonderful change in the educational
facilities has taken place in
the fifty years since that time. Although
now over seventy years old,
MRS. DAVIS is hale and hearty and takes an
active interest in teachers
and their work.

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January l0, 2002