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The Killian Family Newsletter |
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Volume 3, Number 2 -- 1995 |
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Published Twice a Year |
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OUR PAST PRESENT & FUTURE |
CONTENTS Page #
The One-Room Killian School .......................... 1
The 1995 Killian Association Annual Meeting .... (Box) 1
The Killian School and the Naming of:
Margaret Phyllis Killlan [RIN 1660] .............. 2
Andreas' Descendants ................................. 2
Elmore Atmar Martin, Jr. [RIN 4410] .................. 3
James R. Killlan Jr's [RIN 4387] Name ................ 3
Charles Alfred "Judge" Killian [RIN 1260] ............ 3
The 1996 Reunion ..................................... 4
The Alabama Killians ................................. 4
Some of the Most and Least Common Given Names ........ 4
THE ONE-ROOM KILLlAN SCHOOL
IN PERRY CO., MO
by George W. Killian based on recollections of
Linnet Nesslein Killlan Loiseau [RIN 113]
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school and she was asked if she would teach. This was during
the time that boys were enlisting in WWI, or being drafted.
She was given a book on Pedagogy, took the teacher
examination, and taught for five years. She boarded in the
school neighborhood. There was a lot of snow her first
teaching year, in the winter of 1917, and only once since has
there been as much, in Feb 1978.
By today's standards the Killian School was austere,
There was no carpet, and no plumbing or artificial light. There
was a wood stove near the middle of the room and a small
library at a comer in the rear. However, they had one thing
that is seldom seen in today's schools, pictures of George
Washington and Abraham Lincoln! There were two front
doors; the boys used one door and that side of the room, while
the girls used Lb other. Two pupils sat at each desk. There
were shelves for lunch pails and coat racks in the front corners.
Between the doors was the teacher's desk and in front of that
a long bench for the class that was reciting.
My sister, Margaret, made an interesting observation | |
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Philip Killian [RIN
32], bom 1766 in NC
and a grandson of
Andreas' through John
[RIN 42], was the first
Killian in southeast MO
arriving in 1806, just
after the 1805 census.
As the years passed there
were many descendants
and schools were needed.
These early descendants,
like a few of us, and
most of our ancestors
went to one-room coun-
try schools. Many
Killians lived in the same
community and farmed
adjacent tracts of land.
It is speculated that
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The 1995 Andreas Killian Reunion
will be held
Sunday 10 September 1995
at the
Castanea Presbyterian Church, Stanley, NC
Located on NC Hwy 16 at Lucia
(15 miles northwest of Charlotte)
Business meeting and Program at 3 P.m.
Picnic follows. Please bring a picnic supper.
Drlnks, cups, plates, etc. will be provided.
Please bring an updated Family Group Record
and/or a Pedigree Chart.
This is the only notice of the meeting.
Separate Invitations will not be mailed.
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about one-room schools after attending
one for a week (as a guest student). "It
was a most impressive experience for
me. The teacher, as I recall, was only
about eighteen; I had the impression
that she had not had any college
training though that seems rather odd.
I have often looked back and thought
what an advanced system the one-room
school really is, with each pupil
advancing at his own speed. You could
be in third grade reading and fifth grade
math. You finished school when you
had finished all the grades. I also
thought that the students must have
acquired a good ability to concentrate
with so much extraneous activity going
on around them as the teacher taught
other groups. Bright students could
absorb much advanced work. On the
negative side, one always had the same
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John Killian [RIN 20] born in 1827, a grandson of Philip's,
donated the land on which the one-room school, which came to
be known as The Killian School, was built. It was known as
The Killian School because it was on Killlan land, had many
Killlan students and Killlan relatives and a Killlan (or a
relative) was frequently the teacher. I have a picture of the
children at The Killian School on the last day of school in
1904. The picture has 67 people, 20 of whom are Killians and
19 of whom are Schindlers all of whom are related or
eventually married into the Killlan line. That makes 58% of
the group with only two names. Clearly The Killian School
was an appropriate name.
Mary Linnet Nesslein (she has always used the name
Linnet) was 16 when she finished her second year of high
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children around year after year, just losing the graduates and
gaining the new first graders. I suspect it was easier for
children to get stuck in categories: quiet, bossy, troublemaker,
etc."
Linnet says: "There was an average of five or six
children in each grade, and maybe 40 or 45 in the room.
When one class was reciting, the other pupils were studying,
preparing for their turn at recitation. Those who needed more
time to study took their books home. There were some
disadvantages in having these small schools. Some students
were distracted by other classes, and often there was not
enough money for adequate library facilities. If the teacher
was a poor teacher, everything about the school suffered. The
school year lasted seven months." The short school year was
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