1919-1920 Sycamore School, District 4

Yorktown, Mt. Pleasant Township, Delaware County, Indiana

A four-room brick building was built in 1912 to replace the old frame building. The school operated from 18??-1912 and in the newer building from 1912-1935.

4th Grade

Edmund Harman, Carl Campbell, Ralph Brown, John Brubaker, Clyde Hensley, Wilma Kilgore, Verl Cole, Thelma Donovan, Cary Reed, Kenneth Partin, Albert Reed

3rd Grade

Arretta Reed, Joshua Jester, Mabel Harman, Elsworth Moore, Dorothy Myers, Paul Hiatt, Linnie Reed, Glenn Ewing, Harlan Jones, Hubbart Younts, Mary Shields, James Henshy

2nd Grade

Joshua Jester, Mabel Harman, Elsworth Moore, Dorothy Myers, Paul Hiatt, Linnie Reed, Glenn Ewing, Harlan Jones, Hubbart Younts, Mary Shields, James Henshy

1st Grade

Margaret Walker, Ralph Miller, Elnora Applegate, Evelyn Brown, Wayne Hiatt, Lucile Childs, Maude Shields, Arnold Hayden, Leona Walker, Thelma Ewing, Edna Kilgore Geraldin Hensley, Mabel Saunders, Frieda Childs, Chester Boram

Teacher, Laura Wood

P.J. Kautzman, Trustee



More information about these students at Ancestry.com. Search in the “Yorktown Family Trees” tree.

More Information Fourth Grade:

Edmund James Harman , b. 30 Jan 1910 Parents: John Westly Harman & Pearl Isabel Plummer Harman

Carl Edward Campbell, b. 24 Jul 1910 Parents: Jacob A Campbell & Mary Alma Priest Campbell

Marshall Ralph Brown b. 17 Nov 1910 Parents: Joseph “Homer” Brown & Rhoda May Young Brown

John Brubaker b.abt. 1908 Parents: Moses Dearmond Ross & Stena Arvil Cole (Adopted?)

Clyde Albert Hensley b. 14 Mar 1911, Parents: Charles C Hensley & Louise M. Gilbert Hensley

Joshua Howard Jester b. 21 Apr 1909, Parents: James Leroy Jester & Effie R Jones Jester

Wilma May Kilgore b. 6 Nov 1908, D. 1 Mar 1922 (burst appendix); Parents Carl Emmerson Kilgore & Nora Ellen Summers Kilgore

Vera V Cole b. 6 Jul 1907; Parents (likely) Thomas Obid “Obe” Cole and Susan Ella Robinson Cole

Thelma Donovan b. 7 Jul 1910; Parents:William Marion Donovan and Maude G (or C) Curtis Donovan

Cary Glendale Reed b. 7 Aug 1909; Parents: John Stephenson Reed and Mary Ann Haugh Reed

More Information Third Grade:

Aretta Reed