52 Ancestors Week 37: Back to School

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Time for the next 52 Ancestors challenge...

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Back to School

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in The Tree House by Eowyn Walker G2G Astronaut (2.4m points)
Just a quick comment Eowyn. It is a bit disappointing that people are selecting the best comment, when I, and I'm sure others, haven't even received their weekly Wikitree Family News yet. It would be nice if everyone got their emails at the same time, but I understand that this may be just part of the system. But perhaps, if a best story is to be selected, perhaps it could be selected at the end of the week. Anyway. Thank you for your time quickly. (I would say too, if you are to select a best story, please do it on the merit of the story, and not the score. The scores here to a degree, reflect who posted first.)
yes, Ben, I agree. And I'd like to see a comment from the person who chose the best answer, explaining why it was chosen.
It always surprises me to see that happen. It seems like this challenge has nothing to do with questions where the person who asks it is looking for the right answer. That being said Joyce's answer is a fine story.
Not that this is the case here, but I have sometimes wondered if the "best answer" choice is a click oops. I know I did it once.
I would rather have a comment from someone who has actually read my answer, than an anonymous vote. Looking back at some of the photo answers, there are votes for pictures which no one can see.
Thank you Joyce. It certainly isn't that your answer isn't good, or that I need further recognition. I think you already know that. I just think it is discouraging to come on to give an answer, and you see that it has already been decided. And perhaps Lyn is right. It may have been done by accident, but then it has been happening consistently over the last couple of weeks.
I'm confused by this discussion. We can still add our own answers.The best answer selection just shows what is at the top, other than that it changes nothing, right?
You can still add answers Rob. However, the best answer is manually selected, and isn't based on which answer has the most votes, or which answer was first. Marking an answer as 'best' will cause it to display first, and will give it more points. Not that probably any of us are chasing the points. The point of this discussion is, that people are selecting the best answer, within a couple of hours of the question being posted, when the question is being posted for replies, for a week. If you are reading and enjoying the answers to these weekly posts, which we all hope people are, then give the answers an up vote, or respond to the answers with a comment. But please don't select 'best answer', because not all the answers have been given yet, and if best answers are being selected, everybody would like the chance to be in the running, not just the first two or three people who answer.

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Edythe Pearson Harshbarger was my 2x great-aunt, the younger sister of my great-grandmother Lizzie Pearson Maffett. She, like her older sister, went "back to school" to become a schoolteacher before her marriage. Although I don't have confirmation, I suspect she went to Marion Normal College in Indiana, where I know her sister attended. This required a horse and buggy ride to Fort Recovery, OH, and then a train to Muncie, IN, followed by a transfer to the train to Marion. She was listed as a teacher at the local common school, still living in her father's house at age 19, in the 1910 census. Five years later, she married Forest Harshbarger, a farmer. They lived in Indiana and had three children, giving them somewhat unusual names: Ilah, Wilbur, and Neva. 

by Katherine Chapman G2G6 Mach 6 (69.5k points)
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This response is relevant to my grandfather https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baldwin-10526

In 1976, I drove with a friend to Lewiston, MN to track down information on the Baldwin family. I knew very little about their ancestry. My friend and I were able to go to the records office in Winona (they actually allowed us in the basement at that time) and we made copies of birth, marriage and death records, as well as deeds of the Baldwin and Flood families.

While in Lewiston, a very sleepy little farm town, a man at the local saloon gave us directions to the home of a retired school teacher. She had to have been in her 90's and was sharp as a tack. We asked about my grandfather and she remembered 'Fred' Baldwin being a very smart, but naughty student. She told us where the 'one room' school house was located in Lewiston, how she rode a horse school, the grades she taught, using board and chalk, etc. While she isn't an ancestor per se, she was the teacher of an ancestor and this post honors her. She brought my family at the turn of the century to life and I thank her, my daughter, who is an 8th grade language arts teacher and all teachers at this time during the pandemic with 'back to school' under strenuous circumstances.
by Carol Baldwin G2G Astronaut (1.1m points)
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When my grampa wanted to marry my grandmother he was told that he had to get a collage degree. He wanted to marry her so bad that he did it in two years. He ended up working for hughes aircraft company as a superviser for at least 40 years. and for a time also wored a second job. In his free time worked on there home whare he lived with his wife and there seven children. Was only finished when his oldest, my mom got married.
by Jennifer Robins G2G6 Pilot (248k points)
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My maternal grandmother Inez Steele was a teacher.  She attended Appalachian State Teacher's College.  She remembered the names of her students long after she forgot many other things in her declining years.  She was an excellent student but hated English as she wrote in an award willing essay.  She handwrote her Senior yearbook from Fairgrove High School in Thomasville, NC where she was Valedictorian and I made it into a video. 

by Amy Farley G2G Crew (420 points)
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Well maybe I’m pushing the “back” a bit but I submit Jennie Walker a food chemist at the University of Chicago. 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Walker-34810

by Joelle Colville-Hanson G2G6 Pilot (150k points)
edited by Joelle Colville-Hanson
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I have to remind myself sometimes that my history is also family history. This week, I reflected on some of my experiences in school. https://rhymeschemesanddaydreams.wordpress.com/2020/09/13/52ancestors-in-52-weeks-back-to-school/

Auriette Hahn Lindsey: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hahn-1532

by Auriette Lindsey G2G6 Mach 3 (31.3k points)
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Can I say that since school started back up I am not getting as much work done as needed. The school district is 2 weeks behind getting us started and we still don't have the workbooks needed.

How does this correspond to my contributions? Well I haven't had time to do any work on anything related because my kiddo needs my laptop to do the work. YAY for beginning of the school year hiccups. I will continue on.
by Christine Preston G2G6 Mach 6 (64.9k points)
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I spent thirty years in the USA as an ELL (ESL) teacher. I had students ranging in age from age 6 to 70. I was inspired by the fact that my maternal grandfather had taken night classes to learn English after he came to the USA from Italy. Presently, pre COVID, I  volunteered as a facilitator for a group of ELLs.
by Rosemary Dill G2G6 Mach 2 (20.7k points)

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