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Shiloh Township Country Schools

Summary from the survey completed in 1997
- Summary
- 2 homes
- 3 other uses
- 4 torn down

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The schools of Shiloh are somewhat weakened by the diphtheria, and some of them are closed. Below we give the names of the teachers as follows:

District No. 1	Miss Stella Bodine
District No. 2	----------
District No. 3	Silvanus Nulton
District No. 4	J. E. Estabrook
District No. 5	Mrs. E. Wheeler
District No. 6	----------
District No. 7	Miss Aura Bly
District No. 8	Q. L. Wheeler
District No. 9	Miss Dessie Cartwright

--Grundy County Republican (Grundy Center, Iowa), 5 January 1881, pg 6

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Shiloh No. 1 a.k.a. Old Dick Miller School

Section 11 Northeast corner

Gratus Nederhoff land - school moved to yard and used for storage - whole farm site gone burned and buried

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Shiloh No. 2 a.k.a. Kuper School

Section 9 Northeast corner
1997-Still in original spot - poor shape

Following are newspaper articles ...
Notice is hereby given that the old schoolhouse in District No. 2, Shiloh township, will be sold at public auction on Wednesday, January 15, 1902, at 2 o'clock p.m., at the old school house site.
By order of committee
D. Claussen, Secretary

--The Grundy Republican (Grundy Center, Iowa), 26 December 1901

The old school house in District No. 2 was bought by Section Boss Wolf for $57 on Wednesday of last week.

--The Grundy Republican (Grundy Center, Iowa), 23 January 1902, pg 8

Tom Ackerman finished moving the old school house from Shiloh No. 2 last Saturday to lots near the depot.

--The Grundy Republican (Grundy Center, Iowa), 6 February 1902, pg 8

Members of Class Of 1902-03 All Are Living

A recent check of the records of the school in District No. 2, in Shiloh township, reveals that all of the members of the school in the years 1902-03 and their teachers are still living, many of them in the vicinity of Wellsburg.

The class of 40 years ago consisted of 15 pupils taught by Trieno Riekena. At that time Joh DeNeui was sub-director of the school, and J. T. Gray was the county superintendent.

Members of the school at that time were listed as follows: Jennie Kuper, Cornie Kuper, Abraham DeNeui, Ida Ruter, Fred Boyken, Richtena Schafer, Flora Kuper, Floy DeNeui, Harm Ruter, Lena Boyken, John Boyken, Tom Schafer, Dena Stickfort and Willie Stickfort.

We doubt if there are many similar cases on record where a class of 15 in any school have remained among the living for so many years.

The Register is indebted to Abe DeNeui for furnishing this unusual record.

Trieno Riekena is at present 61 years old. He attended the college at Cedar Falls; he has a son, Jacob, who is now superintendent at Lewis, Iowa, and another boy, Willard, who is principal of the school at Renwick, Iowa.

Joh DeNeui is now 71 years old and has served as director and president off and on for many years of the Shiloh township school board. He served in this capacity in 1939, at the age of 68 years.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 10 December 1942, pg 13

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Shiloh No. 3 a.k.a. Dickie DeNeui School

Section 6 Southeast corner
- Don deNeui father bought - last teacher 1953 - used as farm building - Don deNeui tore down

Interesting Historic Facts Of Shiloh District No. 3

Following is a very interesting account of the history of Shiloh School District No. 3 as prepared and given to the Herald for publication. It is doubtful another school district in the county has a history centered so much around one family.

In 1865, Johannes de Neui, with a bride of a few months, migrated from Germany and came by stage coach to Ackley, Iowa, which had at that time a few houses and no railroad. He worked for some time in a saw mill at Eagle City on the Iowa River south of Ackley. (Eagle City is now a ghost town.) But the tilling of the soil was in his blood, so he came to Grundy County and purchased some land in Shiloh Township, District No. 3. He built a log cabin on Beaver Creek and broke up the prairie sod with an ox team, some time later he built a frame house in the grove where Dickie deNeui now lives. Since more settlers had moved into the district the U.S. government asked permission to use the log cabin as a school house and for 3 years it served as the first school house for Shiloh District No. 3.

Today almost a century later seven deNeui children are attending Shiloh District No. 3, whose Great-Grandfather's log cabin served as the first school house for their district. They are Robert, Ronald, Karen, Carol, Iona, Daryl and Janice de Neui. They are the children of Noble, Abe and Dickie de Neui.

When the log cabin school house was replaced with a frame building, there arose a dispute as to where it was to be located. The dispute was settled when Simon Snittjer Sr. offered to donate the site if it were built on the farm he owned and operated. Today almost a century later Simon Snittjer Jr. a grandson of the man who donated the site owns and operates the same farm, and is serving as Secretary of the Shiloh Township Board of Education.

In the early days Shiloh No. 3 served as an arm of the law. Weert Riekena who went by the nickname of the Squire, served as a justice of the peace. He lived about 80 rods south of the school house. As the law suits and disputes heard by him drew too large crowds for his home to accommodate, the cases were tried and disposed of at the school house. Shiloh No. 3 was the social center of the neighborhood in the horse and buggy days. The social gatherings, the community plays and box socials were first class entertainment. A large number of business firms in Wellsburg are owned and operated by former pupils of Shiloh No. 3, who also took part in these entertainments besides the annual school picnics and programs. Threshers picnics, 4-H gatherings and telephone business meetings are still held there.

Marjorie Renken teaches Shiloh No. 3 this year. She boards in the district and spends the weekends at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Renken of Parkersburg. There are 13 pupils enrolled at Shiloh No. 3 at the present time.

The largest number on the school's record at one time was 44 pupils. About 25 descendants of Johannes deNeui have attended school there and have been living in the district continually since the log cabin was built.

Source: Wellsburg Herald (Wellsburg, Iowa), 15 February 1951, pg 1

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Shiloh No. 4 a.k.a. Eertmoed School

Section 8 Mid South side
- near (West) Ron deNeui farm moved to near Jeff Simms used as school Colfax 7 - maybe Sonny Beenkens farm now - moved to Palermo No. 3 - Original Shiloh 4 on Ron deNeui farm as shed for machinery - VanPatten school from book "East Friesens in American", by Rev. Schnooker

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Shiloh No. 5

Section 21 Northwest corner
- Harlan Riekena doubted if it existed because his grandmother was born in 1896, lived near and never attended. Geo. Wells owned much land and there were not many people living in the area then. Should have been a mile east.

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Shiloh No. 6 a.k.a. John Stoehr School

Section 24 Northeast corner
- across from Gene Ruter (sold to Wumpkes moved) closed 31 or 32

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Shiloh No. 7 a.k.a. Lutterman School

Section 26 South central
- (SW 25) (Wumpkes bought old school) Harold O'Kones owns land now

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Shiloh No. 8 a.k.a. Nichols' School

Section 28 E/S
- Moved to Henry Nederhoff farm (Sec. 21 SE) is a grainery behind grove. Floyd Eiten told Ruth Hawn

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Shiloh No. 9 a.k.a. Pine Creek School

Section 29 Central
- Herbert Quick, Grundy County author, attended at age 4
Sam Ross moved and made into home - Duane Murra home 829 E 4th St., Wellsburg, Iowa

Shiloh School Sold For $650

The school house west of Wellsburg in Shiloh township known as the Pine Creek School, was sold at public auction Monday afternoon. The high bidder was Sam Ross. His bid was $650.

This was the third time this building was offered at auction. The other two times the bidders were under the appraised value and it was not possible to sell them. One bid at a previous sale was $1000. The last appraisal was made low enough so that the property couldn't fail to sell. That appraisal was $200.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 28 October 1948, pg 1

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