King’s Chapel School
Portions reprinted from Shaw Family Newsletters courtesy of Bryan Shaw
King’s Chapel School
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King’s Chapel School
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King’s Chapel School
Several schools in lower Berrien county provided the basic education for local families around the turn of the century. The Pine Grove and Kings Chapel schools were filled with the children of Rachel and Marion Shaw. The Pine Grove schoolhouse is no loner standing, but the Kings Chapel school is still weathering the years. It is located just across the county line, and sits just around the corner from its original location.
The two-room schoolhouse has tongue-and-groove wallboards which were covered with a mixture of charcoal and egg whites to create a dull black surface. This sufficed as a blackboard. Each classroom had a wood burning stove for heat. One room has doors opening to each side, while the other has two doors to the front side. A single door joins the two rooms in the center wall. The structure formerly had a porch on the front wall, which was used as a stage for plays and graduation days.
In 1928, the Georgia Library Commission reported the Kings Chapel School as one of only two libraries in Berrien County, the other being at the Ray City School.
The school also served as a voting precinct. It was in use until the school districts were combined in the mid-1930s.
Today the schoolhouse serves as a storage shed, owned by David Fields. His mother, Eva Pearl Gaskins, taught there a number of years.
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1905 Staff
- M.G. Knight, Principal
- Susan Parish, 1st grade license, former principal of River Bend School
- Lillie Brown, Assistant teacher
1905 Honor Students
- Arlie Gaskins
- Stella Mathis
- David Mathis
- Idel Williams
- Minnie Gaskins
- Regem Gaskins
- Ruth Gaskins
- Ivah Williams
- Archie Horn
- Edith Smith
- Alma Smith
- Maggie Mae Smith
- Tom Smith
- Clarence Bradfield
- Cordie Gaskins
- Bertie Parish
- Lillie McDonald
Other 1905 Students
- Neta Bradford
- Susie Mathis
- Carrie Lou Williams
- Pearl Smith
- Ilah Peters
- Perry Swindle
- Johnnie Mathis
- Frank Shaw
- Lonnie Smith
- Eugene Mathis
- Caulie Smith
- Mansfield Smith
1906 Staff
- Mr. James B. Peters, Principal
- Mr. Thomas E. Casey
- Miss Susie Parrish
1906 Student Officers of the Kings Chapel School Literary Society
- J.W. Deans, President
- Leon Parrish, Vice President
- Lillie McDonald, Secretary
- Callie Hightower, Assistant Secretary
Other 1906 students:
- David Mathis, 4th Grade Honor Roll
- Maggie May Smith, 4th Grade Honor Roll
- Lonnie Swindle, 4th Grade Honor Roll
- Arlie Gaskins, 4th Grade Honor Roll
- Cora Shaw, 4th Grade Honor Roll
- Mary Deane, 4th Grade Honor Roll
- Alma Smith, 4th Grade Honor Roll
- John Deane, 5th Grade Honor Roll
- Tom Smith, 5th Grade Honor Roll
- Martha Hall, 5th Grade Honor Roll
- Caulie Smith, 5th Grade Honor Roll
- Idella Williams, 5th Grade Honor Roll
- C.C. Smith, 7th Grade Honor Roll
- Clarence Bradford, 7th Grade Honor Roll
- C.W. Bradford
- Martha Hall
- Eva Williams
- H.E. Mathis
- Charles Dean
- Ilah Peters
- Iva Williams
- F.H. Gaskins
- Shelly Mathis
- Susie Mathis
- Cora Webb
- Eugene Mathis
- Billie Peters
- Perry Swindle
- Mansfield Smith
1907 Staff
- John Smith (of Nashville), Principal
Other Kings Chapel Students and Staff
- Susie Bullard
- Susie Ray -taught at King’s Chapel School circa 1926 after attending college at Valdosta.
- Fannie Bullard
- Sallie Bullard
- Jesse Shelby “Dock” Shaw – attended from about 1875 to about 1885
- Fondren Willie Mitchell Shaw
- Mary Idell Shaw, attended from about 1918 and completed the 8th grade in 1924
- Charles Bruner Shaw, Jr, attended 1929-1930
- Marion Shaw, attended 1929-1930
- Lynette Shaw, attended 1929-1930
- Ina Weaver Brown, taught 1930
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