Teachers

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Annie Abernathy, teacher at Sabino School

Mrs. Bessie Abernathy, teacher at Hinchcliff School, 1908-1909

Mamie B. Allen

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Eloise Abel Babb, elementary education, Darling, Lambert, Crowder

Nona Bankston

Miss Allie Barnes, teacher at Belen (She married Oscar Carr.)

Professor William Benson, founder of Marks Industrial High School

Warner Benson, Marks Colored School

Julia Birdsong

Frank M. Bizzell, the first teacher to have charge of the new and improved school, 1909-1912

Inez Dancy Blackwood, Crowder Elementary School

Minnie Blair

Mrs. Alberta Bohannon, Marks Industrial High School

Margie Boone, Music Teacher

Charles S. Boothe

Emma Bowen

Ida Brooks

Annie E. Bryan, teacher at Turner School, 1906

Parlee Hicks Burres, Adult Basic Education, Silent Grove

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Ola Chandler, High School Teacher

Miss Freida Claussen, taught kindergarten in her home, 1932-1933

Henry B. Coleman

Phil Coleman, day school teacher

Butler Cox

Elizabeth Allen Knight Craig, elementary teacher the first coordinator of the Title I program in Quitman County

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Frances Dickey

Sarah E. Dickey

John Digilio, Band Director at Marks High School, All Superior Band 1955, the first Band Director to do so

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Ethel Drane, first teacher at Belen School

Mabel Duncan

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Texanna Edward

Lucilla Edwards

S. R. Evans, agricultural teacher, Lambert High School
He won a place on the honor roll of Mississippi’s Master Agriculture Teachers in 1932.

Lona Ewing, Marks Colored School

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William Fair, teacher, Crowder

Minnie Fox

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Ruth Gann

Katherine Jones Gaston, Head Start teacher

D. M. Gates, teacher, Posey Mound Colored School

Mrs. D. M. Gates, teacher, Posey Mound Colored School

Wordie Gidean

Fannie B. Glenn

Helen Tate Strickland Goddard, Reading Supervisor for the Quitman County Public School System for 15 years

Sallie Gore, teacher at Vance Line School

Mrs. S. S. Gore, teacher at Vance Line School

H. D. Graham, Vocational Agriculture Teacher

Margerette Lee Granberry

Emma Green

Katie E. Green

Venus Greggs, teacher, WPA Adult Education classes

Grace Gregory

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Mrs. Vera Hays, teacher, WPA Adult Education classes

Elizabeth Higgs, High School Teacher

Tahnell Higgs, High School Teacher

Jessie Eddison Hill, teacher, Jennings Negro School

Mrs. J. E. Hill, teacher

Julia A. Hill

Wanda Holland, Music Teacher

Miss Carrie Hood, teacher at Belen (She married Dr. McCurdy.)

F. D. Hunter, Jr., teacher, Friendship School

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Mrs. Ross Ingram, organized a kindergarten in her home, 1934

Sallie Ingram, first teacher at Lost Lake School

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Minnie B. Jackson, teacher at Turner School, 1907

Mrs. Kathrine (nee Reedy) Jamison, taught kindergarten and kindred subjects at Marks High School

Beatris Johnson

Ella Johnson

Ienas Johnson

Josephine Johnson, High School Teacher

Mrs. Joseph Johnson

Mattie Jones, Assistant Teacher, Elliot

Myrtle Jones

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Mamie Koger

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Fannie Mae Lloyd, Compress and Lambert Colored Schools

Auther Logan

Edith Lowrey

Mrs. Lucile Talbert Lowrey, county supervisor of the WPA Adult Education classes

Mrs. Lucile Talbert Lowrey, taught kindergarten and kindred subjects at Marks High School

Mrs. P. H. Lowrey, taught kindergarten in her home

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James H. Maloney

Nina Martin, music teacher

Ida Mason, teacher, WPA Adult Education classes

Mary McArthur

Myrtle McArthur, Music Teacher

Mr. and Mrs. E. L. McNair, first teachers at Walnut Consolidated High School (along with Catherine Rowan)

Mary McNair, High School Teacher

Robert E. McNair, Professor

Ruth McNeely     

Jennie M. Mead, Music Teacher

William Morgan

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Burney Nickle

Sarah W. Norman

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Miss Kate Orr

Mollie Orr

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Annie G. Parks

Kassa W. Parks

Dovie Peden

Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Phillips

Ora Lee Porter, teacher, Marks High School

Mrs. Lula O. Prater

Miss Puryear

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Grant Reed

Katherine Reedy, taught kindergarten and kindred subjects at Marks High School.  She married Mellard Jamison.

W. A. Richardson

Linna Rivers, teacher, WPA Adult Education classes

Catherine Rowan, first teacher at Walnut Consolidated High School (along with the McNairs)

Edith B. Rowe

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Katie Sailors

Maud Sanders, Sabino School

Louisa Simmons

Miss Jennie Simpson (She married Shine Turner.)

Mrs. Virgil Cooper Sims, teacher at Hinchcliff School

Larah A. Sistruck

Rev. Joseph L. Smart

Charles P. Smith, High School Teacher

J. A. Smith, teacher at Hinchcliff, 1907-1908

Mary B. Smith, Physical Education

Mary E. Smith

Minnie O. Smith

Corinne Spince

Edna Stephenson, teacher, WPA Adult Education classes

Emma Stiffis

Annie Mae Swan, teacher, Darling

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Ruth Terry, teacher, WPA Adult Education classes

Annie L. Thompson

Mrs. Lucille Thompson, Marks Industrial High School

Professor R. W. Thompson

William E. Thompson

Mrs. Tomlinson

Mrs. Ethel Tucker, Marks Industrial High School

Jennie S. Turner (nee Simpson)

Lelia Cox Turner

Mrs. Minnie E. Turner, teacher at Hinchcliff School

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Mary B. Walton, High School Teacher

Margerete A. West, Music Teacher

Bertha L. Whitwell

Buford E. Williams

Annie Wilkerson

Anna Woodruff

Callie Rome Woods

Mrs. Myrtle Wright, Marks Industrial High School

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