Olive Branch

Location Relative to Con. 8: 1.0 mile West, 0.5 mile North

Year of District Formation: 1901-1902

Teachers

Dan Galloway – 1906-1907

Rex Hunter – 1907-1908

Mary (Adams) Faqua – 1908-1909

Jack Rutledge – 1909-1910

Miss Nash – 1910-1911

Stella? Brannon? Stella Brannon is the name mentioned in Mary Bock’s article.

Principle

None Listed

First School Board

Mr. Coulter – Chr.

Mr. George F. Penn – Clerk

Mr. George Lacy – Member

Building

None Listed

Mrs. Penn held subscription schools at the Penn home at times from 1901-1903. In 1902-1903 George Penn donated the land for a building which was apparently complete by summer of 1903 and Mrs. Penn held a summer subscription school in the new building. The first regular term began later that year – probably November or December as was typical in the early days.

Olive Branch was one of the three original schools districts to form the Consolidated #8 district. It is noted elsewhere that the Olive Branch Building was moved to the Con. 8 site in 1911 after the new building for the site was destroyed by fire, and put into use until the new building could be replaced.  In one accounting it was used with cloth partitions forming three classrooms for at least most of the first term of school at Con. 8. Note: There is some variation in the details of this first year of Con. 8 as reported by several sources.