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Joseph Sasser and | |
Lucinda (Hale) Sasser |
Sarah "Belle" (Jones) Sasser |
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Joseph Sasser and | |
Lucinda (Hale) Sasser |
Sarah "Belle" (Jones) Sasser |
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Lucinda Hale,  m: on 05 Feb 1880, in Laurel Co, KY daughter of Sebastian & Lucinda(Woolum)Hale,Sr. granddaughter of James & Betsy(Athey)Hale,Jr. b: 1863 Laurel Co, KY d: 1886 buried:Pilgrims Rest Cemetery, in Laurel Co, KY |
Sarah "Belle" Jones, m: on 15 Nov 1886, in Laurel Co, KY daughter of Thomas B. &Sally(Cook) Jones paternal grandparents: William &Mary(Jones) Jones maternal grandparents: Joseph & Eliza(Yeager) Cook b: 1861 Laurel Co, KY d: 01 Jan 1946 Knox Co, KY Belle's 2nd husband is John Franklin Smith Clickon William/Mary to find Belle's & Frank's List of Descendants. |
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Descendants by 1st Wife, Lucinda (Hale) Sasser |
London, Kentucky August 23, 1984 HE STARTED TEACHING IN 1938, WHEN TEACHERS RODE TO SCHOOL ON HORSEBACK By Karen House-Combs ~~~~~ Tollie Sasser retired from the teaching profession 10 years ago, but when he began teaching in 1938 he rode seven miles to and from school on horseback and had 48 students in an eight-grade one room building. "I told them that there was only one way to handle students, and a girl in the eighth grade who was going to Berea said, 'no Mr. Sasser, there's 48 ways.'" "That was my first year," he said, "and I hadn't learned that yet, but I remembered that little girl's advice." Sasser talked about his more than 30 years in the Laurel County school system during an interview Monday afternoon. A graduate of Sue Bennett and Union College, he began teaching at at school in Knox County, located seven miles from his home in the Blackwater community for a salary of $61.90 a month. The next year he was transferred to Blackwater and then to Darrell Jones. Sasser left his third school in as many years for a position at Bennett's Branch in 1941, and began an association with the school that eventually lasted 16 years. The school was first opened in 1935 in a one-room log house, with George Sasser as the teacher. A two-room rock school house was built later with the lower eight grades in one room and the upper grades in the other. Sasser said teaching in such a small school and having the same students over several years, enabled teachers to play a larger role in their students' lives than they do today. "I fed them, bought them lunch, sent them to the store to buy overshoes," he said, "and even sent them to the doctor and told them to bill me if they couldn't pay for it. They always managed to sometime pay me back later on." Margie Gray, who lives near Sasser in Blackwater, said she attended Bennett's Branch from her first year of school through the eighth grade. "When you have a student that long," Sasser said, "it's something to take one and wonder if you're teaching them right." Gray said their teacher also played games with the students on Friday afternoon, such as spelling matches and adding races, as well as playing with them at recess. Sasser said the one and two-room schools in the small communities were not closed for snow days like the larger schools today, because the students lived nearby. He said students also began attending classes at an earlier age. "One little girl started coming to school when she was three years old," he said, "because her mother had died and there wasn't anyone at home to babysit." Sasser said students in the small schools were also required to cover as much academic material as they do today. "The books were just as thick at a one-room school," he said, "as they are today, and you were expected to get finished with it by the end of the year." He said teachers also kept the same records as they do today, for each class. One Bennett's Branch student, Bobby Ray Cheek, told Sasser that having several classes in one room was an advantage. "If I didn't get it one year," he said about his lessons, "I got to hear him explain it the next." Sasser said each class was taught a 15-minute lesson while the other classes were working on assignments, and since several grades were in one room, students heard lessons from year to year. The lower grades in a two-room school were divided into primer, first, second and third graders. The upper grades were divided in alternating years, into either fourth, fifth and seventh grades or fourth, sixth and eighth grades. Sasser said if a student was supposed to go into the fifth grade, but it was the year to teach the sixth grade, he became a sixth grade student and was allowed to skip the fifth grade. "That was done all over the county," he said, "that's the way they worked it." Sasser said although the schools were small, they weren't lacking academically. His eighth grade students went to Bush one year to be tested with the larger school's eighth graders. The students were tested on four subject areas, and he said Bush Principal Frank Bentley told him his students beat the Bush students in three out of four subjects. Sasser said some of his students later became teachers and some preachers, but whatever they became, he said, after spending all those years with him, it always felt like "they were yours." |
as well as assorted obituaries providing us lineage info, were provided to us by  Elaine (Helton) Lorinczi d/o Bob &Cathy(Hayes) Helton gd/o Bob &Avis(Sasser) Helton g-gd/o George &Matilda(Vaughn) Helton gg-granddaughter of James &Lucy(Osborne) Helton THANKS, CUZ ELAINE, FOR SHARING! |
To find the links to those pages, CLICK HERE for our index of group photos. |
Abe Sasser, Jr. with kinfolks at Taylor Cemetery, Decoration Day, June 09, 2002 |
Glenn Perry; ABE SASSER, JR.; Glenn's sister Helen (Perry-West) Mills (Glenn's & Helen's parents are Tollie &Pearl(Taylor) Perry); Glenn's wife Eleanor (Hypes) Perry; James "Junior" Tedders (Junior is son of Jim &Mary[Cobb] Tedders and grandson of Taylor &Lizzie(Hoskins) Tedders and g-grandson of George &Angeline[Taylor] Tedders); (Clicking on links will open separate windows.) |
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