The Tunis Creek school was located about six miles northwest of
Cootes Store on what is currently Route 610. On April 12, 1911, land
was deeded by E. R. Estep and wife for the Tunis Creek schoolhouse.
This building replaced an earlier school in the neighborhood. In
1922, this building burned and was replaced by a new building. The
new building was built at a cost of $1100 by E. N. Lindamood. For two
years, the Tunis Creek shared a teacher with the Smith school located
a few miles to the west. The teacher taught three days at the Smith
school and three days at the Tunis Creek school.
Teachers at Tunis Creek were:
1908-09 Fannie Lowman
1909-11 (two sessions) John Floyd
1911-12 (Florence Masencupp) R. J. Sheppe
1912-13 B.F. Spitzer
1913-14 Beatrice Nelson
1914-15 Bertha Hume
1915-16 Stella Hulvey
1916-17 Lena Hulvey
1917-18 Miss Farrers
1918-19 Pauline Yenkel
1919-21 (two sessions) Nellie B. Graves
1921-22 Blanche Helbert
1922-23 Dorothy Naff
1923-24 (unknown)
1924-25 Edith Supinjer
1925-26 Elma Hershberger
1926-27 Pauline Shiflet
1927-32 (five sessions) Nellie B. Graves (Emswiler)
1932-33 Edith C. Hollar
1933-34 Jacob S. Huffman (operated w/ Smith school)
1934-35 Rachel Roller
Tunis Creek closed in 1935.
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