Dear Family Trails readers,
We have a short paragraph left for our last installment of Tee's article written for the Talladega County Historical Society's time capsule.
During the months after the summer crops were laid by, our father would walk about three miles to teach school and would teach until time to gather the crops in. Later in life he felt that he had been richly rewarded, for one of his pupils would write to him each Christmas, thanking him for the inspiration he had given him as a young boy. This pupil was Allen J. Moon who became Dean of Howard College (now Samford University) in Birmingham, Alabama. He was also Dean of Liberty College in Missouri.
This was a short entry from the article, but it holds a great deal of information.
First, Grandfather Weaver taught school outside of Lineville, AL, yet he did not have much formal education himself. In something I have read about him, it said that since he had been born a few months before the beginning of The War Between The States, his schooling ended early in grammar school so he could help his father on the farm. C. S. Weaver's obituary states that he memorized poetry and many chapters of the Bible so he must have been a very smart man to have taken on the school in Lineville.
Second, this article mentions correspondence between Grandfather Weaver and one of his students in Lineville. Here are 2 letters from this former student on his stationary from the William Jewel College in Liberty, Missouri.
This next letter is especially interesting. Allen J. Moon is 71 years old. Think about this… a 71 year old man is still expressing his gratitude for the grammar school education he received many years before! He must have truly been so grateful for his education and did not take it for granted that he had a good teacher to help him in life. In the letter he writes, "I shall never forget how hard you toiled at your teaching job to help us poor country boys."
The letter is written in 1944. Allen Moon writes that his son is "somewhere in England as a radio operator mechanic for the 479th Fighter Group for the A. (illegible) (8th)." Maybe the initials represent the Army Air Corps.
In the time capsule article, Tee wrote that Allen Moon was also the Dean of Howard College. Many of the Weaver family attended Howard College, which later became Samford University.
So readers… this ends our few weeks of examining Lora Weaver Ragsdale's time capsule article. In our next "Weaver Wednesday" we can prepare for Thanksgiving. Yum Yum!
Love,
Mariellan
This was a short entry from the article, but it holds a great deal of information.
First, Grandfather Weaver taught school outside of Lineville, AL, yet he did not have much formal education himself. In something I have read about him, it said that since he had been born a few months before the beginning of The War Between The States, his schooling ended early in grammar school so he could help his father on the farm. C. S. Weaver's obituary states that he memorized poetry and many chapters of the Bible so he must have been a very smart man to have taken on the school in Lineville.
Second, this article mentions correspondence between Grandfather Weaver and one of his students in Lineville. Here are 2 letters from this former student on his stationary from the William Jewel College in Liberty, Missouri.
This next letter is especially interesting. Allen J. Moon is 71 years old. Think about this… a 71 year old man is still expressing his gratitude for the grammar school education he received many years before! He must have truly been so grateful for his education and did not take it for granted that he had a good teacher to help him in life. In the letter he writes, "I shall never forget how hard you toiled at your teaching job to help us poor country boys."
The letter is written in 1944. Allen Moon writes that his son is "somewhere in England as a radio operator mechanic for the 479th Fighter Group for the A. (illegible) (8th)." Maybe the initials represent the Army Air Corps.
In the time capsule article, Tee wrote that Allen Moon was also the Dean of Howard College. Many of the Weaver family attended Howard College, which later became Samford University.
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| Howard College, Birmingham, Alabama |
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| Samford Unviersity today |
So readers… this ends our few weeks of examining Lora Weaver Ragsdale's time capsule article. In our next "Weaver Wednesday" we can prepare for Thanksgiving. Yum Yum!
Love,
Mariellan
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