Vinegar Hill School
We have a file cabinet drawer with information on Clay County schools. Vinegar Hill School housed the first eight grades between 1884 and 1949.
In the Vinegar Hill School file is an article from the August 27, 2001, Tribune-Star about Vinegar Hill. Included in the article are a picture of the schoolhouse and a picture of retired teacher Alma RISSLER, who was 101 years old at the time of the article. Ms. RISSLER was the only surviving teacher from Vinegar Hill School. Also included in the school file are photographs of students in 1925, 1933, and in the early 1940’s. Listed below are names of students pictured. Come to the Library to see the picture.
Vinegar Hill School Students 1934
| Brown | Mary Katherine (Stearley) |
| Buckalew | Kathyrn (Teacher) |
| Burns | Margaret |
| Burns | Billy |
| Burns | Harold |
| Dierdorf | John |
| Heck | O.J. |
| Heck | Raymond |
| Heck | Leo Carl |
| Heck | Wanda |
| Knox | Eddy |
| Knox | Ruth Imogene |
| Knox | Mary Katherine |
| Knox | Carl |
| Lawson | Martha Lee |
| Lawson | Minnette Lee |
| Lawson | Glenn |
| Lawson | Betty |
| Lunsford | Hilda (Tobert) |
| Lunsford | Lillian (Stearley) |
| Lunsford | Marjorie L. (Dickison) |
| Nelson | Jim |
| Nelson | Junior |
| Nelson | Nellie |
| Sinders | Naomi Josephine |
| Sinders | Helen |
| Stearley | Wayne |
| Stearley | Nila Mae |
| West | Woodrow |
| Williams | Imogene |
| Williams | Wilbur |
| Yockey | Jack |
| Yockey | Paul Wane |
| Yockey | Harvis |
| Yockey | Henry |
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Vinegar Hill School Students & Teacher 1925
| Dierdorff | Elmer |
| Dierdorff | Ernestine |
| Dierdorff | Mable |
| Dierdorff | Everett |
| Dierdorff | Merl |
| Dierdorff | Mildred |
| Evans | Ross (Teacher) |
| Knox | Wilma |
| Knox | Madison |
| Knox | Freda |
| Knox | Melvin |
| Knox | Richard |
| Knust | Freda |
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Vinegar Hill School Students Early 1940’s
| Crow | Ben |
| Deardorf | June Lee |
| Knox | Jack |
| Koehler | Chris |
| Koehler | Carl |
| Lancet | Charolete |
| McMichael | Morgan |
| McMichael | Dorothy Jean |
| Nelson | Lewis |
| Nelson | Robert |
| Nelson | Jack |
| Reed | Wanda |
| Stearley | James E |
| Stearley | Gerald |
| Stearley | Keith |
| Stearley | Bob E. |
| Stearley | James J |
| Woods | Mary Lou |