03-05-01

I was going through a bunch of Jackie’s trunks out in my barn the other day and ran across this group photo of the Friendship School, which was located midway between Aubrey and Pilot Point, and about two miles east on the north side of the road among the large oak trees on Friendship Road. The school went into the Pilot Point school district in 1945.

Jackie ran into a lot of her old keepsakes from the Pilot Point school as she was polishing up the old Victrola record player that she bought from Elsie Dane back when Aubrey had its centennial. Elsie and Jake Dane were neighbors in the Friendship community You see Jackie has a library in my barn and the old antique record player is a part of the furnishings that we want to mention in this column at this time.

This photo was made in 1939. Mary Jo Cogburn has another photo of the Friendship School that I will submit next week. Mary Jo is one of the students in this old photo. Doyle, Mary Jo and Jacobina were the three younger of the children from the family of Bob and Vertie Cogburn who were farmers in the Friendship area.

Most of the students and teachers have been identified as follows: Doyle Cogburn, Joe Tomberlin, Billy Gene Powell, Donald Bell, __________ Allen, Joe Bob Powell, Weldon Hinsley, Allen Watson, James Odell, Wesley Redfearn, Winston Connors, Joyce Phinney, ______ Mudd, Helen Hall, Joyce Stiles, Ruth Osburn, Mary Jo Cogurn, Betty Watkins, Bernice Allen, Louise Sparkman, Lewis Hall, Earl Odell, Buelah Lynn Sparkman, Mary Lou Tomberlin, Jacobina Cogburn, Joyce Odell, Betty Lois Rudd, Mary Lee Cox, Paula Osburn, Charles Osburn, Jackie Southerland, Jerry Cox, Hubert Foutch, G.W. Bellar, Hillford, Clifton Watson, Wendell Sparkman, Leonard Hall and a vew others that we haven’t identified.

Peanuts, cotton and corn were the principal crops grown in this neighborhood and school district during the first half of the nineteen hundreds. Pa and Ma Crawley had a 640 acre or section of land at this time that was good fertile farming land. Pa Crawley had a cotton gin on his farm. Pa and Ma Crawley had two daughters name Mattie Lee and Johnnie Virginia. They both went on to be school teachers in this area.

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