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. |