This one-room brick school, situated on the bluff overlooking Little Cedar Creek and immediately west of the historic Little Cedar Baptist Church, was taught for many years by Miss Hazel STARKEL. Some of its students were transported here from the County Childrens Home, which was situated immediately south of the entrance to the Franklin County Park. The home is now owned and occupied by the Randy JOHNSON family. A roster of the students taken in 1922 reveals the following family names: FRITZ, REISERT, SENEFELD, QUINLAN, REDELMAN, SCHENKEL, and PELSOR. When the school was closed in the early 1940’s, the pupils were either transferred to Brookville or Whitewater Community School. Mary PELSOR STUMPF relates that she lived near the present day Mounds restaurant and attended this school. Upon those occasions when she had to go either to Brookville or Cedar Grove, her aged grandmother, decked out in bonnet and long apron, would flag down the oncoming train. The child would then board the train and on to her destination all for the sum of $0.05. Surely, money went a lot farther in those days. And, Mary continued, when the train schedule did not fit in with her grandmother’s, Mary would ride a horse-drawn conveyance to her destination.
Elmer E. Peters, MD,
May 21, 1995