The Island Ford School was located near the Yancey station and post
office south of Elkton on the east side of the Shenandoah River. The
date of construction of the Island Ford school is unknown but it is
shown but not named in Lake's 1885 Atlas of Rockingham County. The
original school at Island Ford was a one-room frame structure. The
school was indicated on school records as the Island Ford school but
was also referred to in some Stonewall District school board minutes
as the Rocky Bar School. When a new two-room school was built in
1917, the school became known on school records as the Rocky Bar
school. The Rocky Bar school closed in 1951.
Teachers known to have taught at the Rocky Bar (Island Ford)
school:
1887-88 W. A. Melhorne
1888-90 (two sessions) Ella E. Condor
1890-91 Sallie F. Melhorne
1891-93 (two sessions) Fannie Dennett
1893-94 Emma Lambert
1894-95 J. N. Dunivan
1895-97 (two sessions) Fannie Dennett
1897-98 J. Ada Powell
1898-1900 (two sessions) Annie Leap
1900-01 Katie Ergenbright
1901-02 Anna V. Hamman
1902-05 (three sessions) Mary K. Yancey
1905-06 Kate Gilmer
1906-07 Milan D. Miller
1907-08 (unknown)
1908-09 Williette Hopkins
1909-11 (two sessions) Virginia Johnson
1911-12 Susan K. Henry
1912-13 Clara Rodgers
1913-14 Mrs. C. M. Coffman
1914-15 Pearl Hensley
1915-21 (six sessions) Hattie Price, Margaret Sellers
1921-22 Reba Woolfolk, Margaret Sellers
1922-24 (two sessions) Cornelia Derrick, Ethel Shipman
1924-25 Kathleen Groah, Inez Good
1925-26 Inez Good, Zetta Smith
1926-28 (two sessions) Elizabeth Garber, Zetta Smith
1928-29 Rosie Phillips, Zetta Smith
1929-30 Mrs. T. C. Simms, Zetta Smith
1930-31 Ethel Diehl, Zetta Smith
1931-36 (five sessions) W. A. Hedrick, Zetta Smith
1936-38 (two sessions) W. A. Hedrick, Mary Jane Walker
1938-40 (two sessions) Gail Trissel, Edna Wampler
1940-41 Gail Trissel, Marjorie Carickhoff
1941-45 (four sessions) Gail Trissel, Mary Ware Stevens
1945-46 Mrs. Florence Dyche, Mary Ware Stevens
1946-47 Margaret K. Lilly, Hattie Price
1947-50 (three sessions) Margaret K. Lilly, Mrs. Valley M. Diehl
1950-51 Margaret K. Lilly, Eulalia L Miller
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