On my dad's
official permanent record for teaching, Pleasant Valley is
listed. I don't know if it was a community or just the name
of a school. My parents taught at Three League/Flower Grove
and I have pictures of the school and some of the children
from 1934-1936. My parents are in most of them, but so are
some other teachers and students and good views of the
school building. Unfortunately my parents didn't identify
the students as they did when they moved over to Mesquite,
Borden Co. My dad, Zack Jaggers, was the principal, bus
driver, janitor and teacher. My mother, Ella Kate Jaggers
taught the first four grades. They were there 1934-35 and
1935-36 school years. Zack's permanent school record shows
him teaching in Pleasant Valley in 1935-36. It's not far
from Three League. I found Pleasant Valley on a map/chart in
a book in the museum at Stanton. Pioneering on the Plains:
The History of Martin County, Texas, by Vernon Liles, B. J.
Thesis at the University of Texas, for the Master of Arts
degree, Austin, Texas, June 1953. The school bus was made by
covering the open sides of a truck with tarp. Blanche White
was also a teacher there, but I'm not sure what grade's.
Her husband was selected as the president of the Franklin
County Reunion organization. I know they were lifelong
friends of my parents, but I don't know if he also taught
there. There was a big Franklin Co. TX Reunion there at the
school in 1935. Flonnie Wooten was one of the people who
attended. |