Please send pictures and any stories or other information you have about this old school. Many of our ancestors attended this school as well as some of us. I went to school here in the 7th and 8th grade. Hope to find out about the old school before it burned. The school was originally on the Ross farm across the main road to the west. Please let me know if you have any information and I will included it here along with the name of the persons who supply the information. The records are kept in the old Grove High School in Paris. Hopefully we will be able to get this  information and post it here about the other teachers and students Anyone who is willing to share their information about the old school please contact me at jwlaw@cox.net

Visit the Restoration page to find out about the restoration of the old school.

Thanks

Liberty IV 1993 at left

The old Liberty IV school has a long history. So many of the people who lived in our area attended this school. My grandfather (Willie Lawrence) was a substitute teacher there. My father went to school there and my brother, J. C. and I also attended school there. Our mother was a teacher there about 1933-34.

This school started as a log building about a half mile to the west. It was destroyed and rebuilt in its present position.

Liberty School is more than this old building. It is the laughter of children who lived in this community and have raised their families here and in some instances have sent their own children to school here. It is the memories of many people who once attended this old school and were friends with the other children in the community. It is a long ago time of happiness and contentment for many of the people who lived in this community. It is, in short, part of the heart of this community in days gone by. What a privilege to have attended this old school and been a part of it's history in those long ago days.

Many people who now live in this community do not know the history of the school and indeed do not know that it has existed.  The old building will soon be gone and with it the end of an era in the history of this community. How sad to know that someday people will not know that it ever existed and that it was a part of the community's heart and soul. How can it be that old Liberty IV will fade away? How can it be that the many stories of these people will cease to exist. Who will remember?

We are trying to obtain all the information we can about the old school and the people who attended and who the teachers were. If you have any information or pictures please let us know as we sincerely want to record and preserve as much of the history of the school as we possibly can. Please e-mail or write.

Mail to: jwlaw@cox.net

In 1949 and 1950 I attended school here. The teachers were Eleanor Hansel, Francis Kirkland and a young lady named Edra Smith Derrington. Some of the students who attended during those years were:

John Lawrence - myself
J. C. Lawrence - my brother
Sarah Vivian Owen
Helen Owen
Hulon Owen
David Arnold
James Travis Barlow
R. L. Barlow
Hazel Barlow
Vera Faye Barlow
Sue Cooper
Doyle Scott
Betty Scott
Shirley Jean McClure
Paul Ross
Howard Ross
Virgil Wallace
Howard Wallace
and others.....(let me know who I left out}

Any other information about other years and teachers would be greatly appreciated.

Please scan any pictures you have of the old school and send them and I will include as many of them as I can. Those who send information or pictures will be given full credit.

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