Jack Wood School No. 2
a.k.a. Stringtown

New Buda Township, Decatur County, Iowa
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Stringtown School
year unknown

Stringtown School interior
year unknown

Stringtown School Souvenir
1905 - 1906

Stringtown School
1914 - 1915
Mabel V. Bradley, Teacher
Directors: Emory Thompson John Lovell, William Lee, Morton Ordway, Joseph Robins
Pupils
Birda LovellLyda Frazier
Nellie HendersonRalph Wood
Myrl ThompsonGeorge Bartlett
Johnnie HendersonJennie Frazier
Bertha BlattIsaac Slaughter
Mabel BlattCharley Lovell
Hattie SlaughterDoris Bartlett
Everett FoxFay Thompson
Retha BlattFlossie Frazier
Maree LovellBessie Lovell
Fannie SlaughterFlorence Bartlett
Ruth LeeVera Wood
Johnnie FoxNora Boswell
Hyrum LovellGertrude Daniels
Argyle DanielsFloyd Thompson
Nancy SlaughterJessie Daniels
Clarence DanielsOsa Lovell
Alma LovellArchie Blatt
Elwood McClaren

STRINGTOWN SCHOOL, New Buda Township, 1914-15, Lela Johnston, teacher
Front row, l-r: Violet Waddell, Leo Scott, Bessie Maynard, Opal Ordway, Gladys Toney, Shelly Scott, Naomi Lee; second row: Oscar Eastin, Dorothy Toney, Goldie Eastin, Cleo Scott, Hazel Fox, Lowell Waddell, Sylva Dvorak, Florence Toney; third: Ethel Johnston, teacher, Frank Ordway, Johnnie Fox, Vera Wood, Carl Dvorak, Beryl Scott, Mamie Waddell, Conrad Dvorak. Submitted by Hazel Doolittle.


Stringtown School
1934 ~ 1935

Teacher's Contract
Doris Foltz ~ 1935

Doris Foltz, teacher
ca. 1935

Stringtown School
ca. 1939

believed to be Stringtown
1935 - 1936
most likely 1938

Stringtown School
year unknown

Stringtown School boys
year unknown

Photos contributed by Brian Delk, July 2025
Photos marked as 1937-1938 Stringtown School
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Virginia Kirkpatrick, Elaine Boswell, Ida Mae Munyon
Mary Delk, Teacher

Ida Mae Munyon, Elaine Boswell, Virginia Kirkpatrick
unk, Elaine Boswell, Ida Mae Munyon, unk, Virginia Kirkpatrick, Cleo Boswell (behind), unk, unk, Richard Bowell
Cleo Boswell, 2nd from left, Richard Boswell, no hat.

unk, unk, Elaine Boswell, Ida Mae Munyon, unk, Virginia Kirkpatrick, Cleo Boswell (behind), unk, unk, Richard Bowell
Mary Delk, Teacher

Stringtown School #2  New Buda Township

September 6, 1937 - April 22, 1938

Mary Delk  Teacher $50.00 mo.

  

Stringtown School #2  New Buda Township

September 5, 1938 - April 25, 1939

Ruth Bartlett  Teacher $50.00 mo.

Norman Boswell - Director

   
AgeGradeAge Grade
1J.B. Preston148 1J.B. Preston158
OttoOtto
Kenneth Munyon138 Cleo Boswell148
LorenNorm
Kenneth Kirkpatrick128 Lowell Manchester138
GeorgeGarvin
Lowell Manchester117 Ida Mae Munyon127
GarvinLoren
Russell Grim157Billy Jim Manchester115
Maynard
Cleo Boswell1376Elaine Boswell83
Norm
Virginia Kirkpatrick106
George
Ida Mae Munyon106
Loren
Billy Jim Manchester95
Maynard
10Raymond Grim135
Billy Lee Bailey105
Bill
Billie Kirkpatrick72
George
Elaine Boswell62
Norm
14Richard Boswell6B
Rufus
Contributed by Bob Bixby, Decatur County Historical Society, August 2025

Photographs courtesy of Decatur County Historical Museum, Leon IA
Original page created by Sharon Becker 2013, updated 2015; transcribed and reformatted by Conni McDaniel Hall Nov 2019. Updated August 2025.
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