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Tri-Counties Genealogy &
History by Joyce M. Tice
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Schools In Our Area |
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Bradford County PA
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Chemung County NY
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Tioga County PA
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School Photos of the Tri-Counties
Gleason School, Union Township,
Tioga County PA |
Photo by Joyce M. Tice 1998 |
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Note from Web Site guest, Barb Conrad.
I enjoyed seeing the picture you took of the old Gleason School on your
journey through Union Township, Tioga County. The Gleason School had been
closed for a few years but in 1951 it was reopened because of the "baby
boomers". There was not enough space at the two-room Ogdensburg school
for all the kids headed to school that year or the next, So I went through
1st and 2nd grade at Gleason and then the school was closed. 3rd grade
also was taught there. It was one room with a big coal/wood furnace in
it and a small cloak room where we also had a crock of drinking water which
the "big kids", meaning the 3rd graders, had the privledge of carrying
water from Joe Wynne's store in Gleason every morning so we would have
water to drink and water to wash our hands. We each brought a drinking
cup from home with our name on it that we kept at school. We had a wind-up
alarm clock to tell what time it was and of course, the out-house! I don't
remember how many of us attended school there but I'm sure there were only
about six or eight of us in 1st grade; probably about the same for 2nd
and 3rd grade. I read in the "History of Union Township" published by the
Union Township Historical Society - 1986, that the Gleason School was the
former Skelly School. It was moved from its sight in the Irish Settlement
between Ogdensburg and East Point to Gleason; the year was not disclosed.
The Skelly School closed permanently in 1920. A few years later, it was
cut into three sections and moved by haywagons to Gleason and re-assembled.
It is now a storage shed. Another version was that the Gleason School was
formerly the Swamp School which was located between Ogdensburg and Gleason.
I personally believe the Union Historical Society's version because they
did an outstanding job in researching the history of the township; digging
in attics, talking to everyone they could possibly think of, asking for
old letters, journals, and newspaper articles, and because the members
are all descendents of the settlers of Union Township so they all had a
lot of personal stories to base their research on. (sort of like what we
genealogists do to find our ancestors!).
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Joyce's Search Tip - November 2008
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Do You Know that you can search just the
700
pages of School Records on the site by using the Schools button
in the Partitioned search engine at the bottom of the Current
What's New Page? You can narrow your search by entering a
township name and a surname and using the Find All Words option |
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Spencertown School. Union Township,
Tioga County, Pennsylvania
Spencertown School
District No. 1
Union Township, Tioga County, PA
Term 1905-1906
Compliments of M. Jennie Preston, Teacher
G. J. Smith, Director
Supt. W. R. Longstreet, Co. Supt.
PUPILS
| Luva Allen |
Ethelyn Ayers |
| Lena Boyce |
Sylvia Boyce |
| Jessie Kilbourn |
Avena Kilbourn |
| Jennie Kilbourn |
Marion Tebo |
| Mildred Tebo |
Hazel Tebo |
| Flava Reynolds |
Tacy Reynolds |
| Adell Spencer |
Lena Spencer |
| Edith Spencer |
Ida Spencer |
| Agnes Wilcox |
Elsie Rutty |
| Libbie Rutty |
Leonard Boyce |
| Courtney Rockwell |
Glen Harvey |
| Frankie McNett |
Harold Packard |
| Howard Wilcox |
Thomas Crofutt |
| Clarence Spencer |
Myron Spencer |
| Jay Spencer |
Elwin Baldwin |
| Randall Newell |
Howard Chisholm |
| Elwin Spencer |
Willie Vermilya |
| Olla Spencer |
Liston Packard |
| Harry Rutty |
Rose Kobbe |
| Freddie Rutty |
Harry Palmer |
| Leon Spencer |
Silas Robinson |
| Willie Robinson |
Harry Ward |
| Charley Robinson |
Fred Robinson |
| Earl Robinson |
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Submitted by Don Stanton May 2008 |
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Tioga County PA
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