Took these pictures today as I was driving home...I live not even a half mile from this schoolhouse. Is it Paw Paw?
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I haven't looked at the pictures but I am thinking that the schoolhouse is south of you, on the west side of the road and that wouldn't be Paw Paw. Paw Paw was north of Rock Road
Devyn, I'm not sure where you live. That picture is definately not Upper Paw Paw. Donnie Marrs bought that school house a few years ago, and committees have worked and helped him fix it up. They still use it for different things from time to time. It is on the east side of the road about 1 1/2 miles north of Dan and Joetta. Do you life on Glenn and Margaret Miller's place? Is this school house north of you on the west side of the road (what was known years ago as the Paw Paw Road? If so, is it south of Dan and Joetta's and Maybe west and a little south of Ted and Janet Miller's? If so, that could be Lower Paw Paw. Last I knew, the Crigers had purchased it when they owned the land south of Lower Paw Paw and was using it to store hay.
They don't own that land anymore. I think Jim Wiseman lives on part of what used to be Crigers.
Myrna
Devyn-Leann, your picture is of the Lower Paw Paw School - District #6. At times the school was referred to as Clum School. The building and the land it is situated on has been owned by Vic Scholfield of Wichita for nearly twenty years.
On Sept. 18, 1880, a deed was signed by Aaron and Kate McKey Clum, granting Lower Paw Paw School District #6 one acre of land, commencing at the SE corner of Sect. 3, Twp. 29, Range10; thence north ten rods; thence west sixteen rods; thence south ten rods; thence east sixteen rods to the place of beginning.
The Lower Paw Paw School District was officially disorganized on June 1, 1951 and was officially consolidated with Howard School District #5, though some of the Lower Paw Paw students began attending school at the Upper Paw Paw schoolhouse instead.
Myrna, weren't the Clums relatives of yours?
Good ole Marcia, I knew she would have the facts.
Marcia, I am not connected to the Clum's personally, although I knew several of the family members. My sister, Mary husband's mother was a Clum. Dan Miller's mother was also a Clum.
Myrna
Thank you! I wasn't sure which one it was. Vic Scholfield owns the property that it is on. It is on the west side of the road and just south of my house. I live about a half mile south of Rock Road.
So, you live close to Ted and Janet?
Myrna, Yes, I realized this morning that your sister, Mary, said it was her husband who was a direct descendant of the Clums, rather than her side of the family.
Yes I live maybe a mile north of them.
Margaret Miller, Valetta Garison, Hazel Wicker, and Elizabeth Harrod were sisters who all lived in or around Howard most of their lives, I believe. Their maiden name was CLUM. Margaret was the mother of Ted and Dan Miller. Valetta was the mother of Dean and Donald Garison. Beth was the mother of Weldon, Jerry, and Janis Harrod. Hazel moved to the Independence area and had a daughter, Kathleen.
Hazel also had two boys Alan & Warren Lee. The Clum girls' mother was a Criger.
Myrna
I went to school at Independence Juco with Kathleen and Alan Wicker. The Clum girls' father was one of a set of twins, Orval and Norval Clum, Orval was their dad, and after Mrs. Clum passed away the girls moved him to Howard. Since I worked for Garison's, Leon would send me down to mow Mr Clum's yard ever week. He was a quite a storyteller, and after I finished mowing his yard I would set on the porch and listen to his stories of the good old days. When I was young it was always amazing to me that John Sr. Garison was Veletta Garison's Uncle and her brother-in-law both. Violet Garison's sister was Orval Clum's wife and Veletta's Mother.
Frank
In April 1901, Norval Clum of Paw Paw Township bought out D.G. Webster's undertaking business at Severy and began operating an undertaking business in connection with a furniture store. Norval, a first-class young man, had graduated in the embalming business and was fully qualified in that line.
In November 1903, Clum sold his undertaking and furniture business back to D.G. Webster, but by February 1905, the Clum Brothers, Norval and Orval, had gone into the undertaking business in connection with their hardware business at Severy.
Where is Dean Garison? I believe Donald passed away a year or so ago. Last I knew Dean was in Wichita but that was many many years ago. Last time I saw him was at a dance at a National Guard Armory in Wichita. Frank or Myrna-Do you know?
Granny, last I knew he was in Wichita
Frank
Was wondering if Dean Garison's wife is Nola?
I believe that is the name that I heard my sister refer to his wife.
mlw
I met her briefly the last time I saw Dean but did not remember her name. Thanks.
It really is a small world. I use to work with Nola. She quit working at Sigma-Tek and went to work at Beechcraft. They had a farm somewhere around Hamilton or Madison. I remember Dean use to spend alot of weekends at the farm.