Wade & Webb Family History

List of New Teachers Announced by State: John Osceola Webb, Kellyton, among Coosa County's teachers who passed the July 1907 examination

17 September 1907 · The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

Named here: John Osceola Webb

The page of The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.) that carries the item
The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.), 17 September 1907, page 8 · the whole page

Transcription

Read from the image (line breaks not kept). The list's heading and preamble, in an earlier column, are given from the Library's OCR text of the page: "LIST OF NEW TEACHERS ANNOUNCED BY STATE. The following list of teachers who passed the July examination was given out yesterday at the Capitol". The list runs county by county, in each county "whites" then "negroes", as the segregated schools of the day were listed.

Coosa County, (whites)—John Osceola Webb, Kellyton; Imogene Waldroom, Goodwater; Therressa Moseley, Equality; Fannie Mae Thomas, Alexander City; Maude Martin, Ida Martin, Equality; Clara Mabry, Laura E. Dean, Elva Mabry, Alexander City; Florence Neighbors, Kellyton; Emma Thornell, Burnie Jones, Equality; Bettie Martin, Seman; Roxie Dunway, Edna Blanche Willis, Alexander City; Mae Newman, Goodwater; May Barrett, Greenville; Stella Maye Rogers, Loachapoka; Donnie Murchison, Equality; Pearl Johnson, Lauderdale; Lily Pearl Windsor, Goodwater; Zada Davis, Vincent; Annie South, Montgomery; Sadie X. Smyly, Pleasant Hill; Exa Crew, Goodwater; Benjamin E. Wilbanks, Equality; R. E. Ledbetter, Kellyton; Wm. Gunn Haynie, Hollins; R. L. Jones, Goodwa[ter ...]

Citation: "List of New Teachers Announced by State," The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.), Tuesday 17 September 1907, p. 8 (the Coosa County entry in col. 4); image, Chronicling America, Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84020645/1907-09-17/ed-1/?sp=8).

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John Osceola Webb Occupation "John Osceola Webb, Kellyton", among the Coosa County teachers who passed the state teachers' examination of July 1907 No occupation recorded; the Kappa Alpha directory of 1922 lists him as a teacher, and a family genealogy makes him principal of the Waverly schools new (the earliest record of him as a teacher)
John Osceola Webb Residence Kellyton, September 1907 1900, Precinct 3 Socapatoy, Coosa County; married at Waverly, June 1908; 1910, Roxana, Lee County new (Kellyton in 1907)