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ATTENDING SCHOOL IN '46.
Written for The Times
bjr J. H. Coltharp.
While sitting in a store-room
at 2 o'clock one afternoon not
long since where there were several
men talking on different
subjects, several chaps passed
going home from school. One of
the men remarked that the teachers
of the present day do not
put in half the day in the school
room. Another one of the party
remarked that under the present
method of teaching it will take a
boy or girl at least 30 years to
get an education. Well, we
thnncrhf hie aeeorfir n f *> flior
exaggerated and quite amusing.
On my way home I thought
over what I had heard about
schools, etc., and my mind wandered
back to my school-boy
days. The first school I attended
was in 1845. The next in '46,
being the most notable, I will
give some of my recollections of
it in this letter. It was taught
by Mr. Meredith Shurly in a'
house about half a mile south of
where J. P. Epps now lives. It
was organized by Stephen Pettus
(who was killed on the 6th of
March following by one of his
negro men). The school was
to run for 12 months, as it invariably
took 12 months to make a
year in those days. School j
opened the 23rd day of January
and was run 7 days per week
without any interruption until
the 18th day of December following.
.The principal books used
in that school were the blueback
speller, the Old and New
Testaments, Webster's dictionary,
Pike's, Smylie's and Gough's
arithmetics.
My elder brother, then 23 years
old, had not been to school but a
few months and could barely
write his name. Professor
Shurly gave him lessons in the
blue-back speller and Pike's
arithmetic. Shurly boarded at
my father's that year and during
the fall and winter months he
and brother started to school at
5 a. m., carrying a pine torch
for a light. They never got
home until near dark. Brother
worked through Pike's, Smylie's
and a good portion of Gough's
arithmetic* that vp.iv 115c
arithmetical problems were written
in blank books he got for
that purpose. We still have them
in our possession.
There were several young men
and young ladies attending that
school. The names of the men
were M. N., S. H. and Lark
Johnson. W. M. and Erwin
Sutton, H. H. Coltharp, G. H.
Pettus. The young ladies were
the Misses N. J., M. A. and
Susan Knox, Betsy Harget,
Louisa Sutton, Ann Pettus and
Susan Burton. This latter lady
lived in North Carolina at least
three miles from the school and
while her mother owned slaves
and a fine farm, her daughter
never rode to school.
It was customary in those days
for the teacher to treat both
patrons and pupils at the closing
of the school, and a few days
before th close the young men
of the school got around Shurly
and asked him for a treat on the
18th, but he refused; wouldn't
listen to them, and they told him
he had to treat or they would
take him to the creek at once
and duck him, and keep on ducking
him until he promised them
a treat. So he finally agreed to
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ucau i uun l kiiow wnat ne
agreed to treat to, but I have
quite a vivid recollection of what
we got.
On the morning of the 13th my
father went off early to Joab
Orr's store, which was in the
Mount Moriah neighborhood near
where the town of Pineville now
is, and came back soon, carrying
a jug and a peck of something in
a sack. It was opened. Shurly
had us all seated and went
around and gave each of his
pupils a handful of sugar; it was
of the dark kind. He then put
a handful in the water bucket,
half full of water, and stirred it
up with a gourd (we had no
dippers then). Then he poured
in a small quantity of the contents
of the jug (corn whiskey),
stirred it up with the gourd,
tasted it, and then poured in
some more from the jug, tasted
it again, and then passed around
with his bucket and gourd and
gave each one a sup.
I don't remember getting any
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the sugar we wanted. I reckon
that was the first and fullest
mess of sugar wp had pv r had.
Of course all of us enjoyed it; it
was a big day with us in '46.
It is now 64 years since that
school was taught. I can now
locate only two of the pupils that
are living, myself and John C.
Campbell, of Charlotte.
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