Bumpass Hill was located south west of Lueders near the Anson Highway and can be seen on a locator map by Clicking:...
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Bumpass Hill School was consolidated into the Lueders School in 1935
I have a little history that no one has written about, because none of the writers are old enough to know this.
The first rural school to consolidate with Lueders was the Bumpass Hill School. It was located about five miles southwest of town on Tommy Graham's land. It was a one room, one teacher school, that only taught the first seven grades, and had about fifteen students according to Boyd Graham.
I have discussed this with Boyd and Bob Vaughn, and to the best of our memories it was closed in 1935 and the students moved into Lueders. Bob said that the building was used as a community center for some years before being torn down.
I have some more history for you about the Hastings School. In the 1920's the teacher was Mr. Herrick (father of Ralph and Herman Herrick, local merchants). Mr. Herrick would walk the approximately five miles to school each day and carry his shotgun, and on his way home in the evening he would shoot enough quail for the family's supper. Ralph told me that they ate lots of quail in those days.
That's all of the history of the rural schools that I can think of for now, if I think of anything else I will pass it along.
Provided by:... DeWitt Wilhite, Class of 39 - : April 23, 2007
I talked with Boyd Newel Graham, Connie Ruth's uncle. Boyd lived with his uncle Thomas Graham, whose property the Bumpass Hill School was on. Thomas' wife was Thelma McNair. Boyd attended the lower grades at Bumpass Hill and then would have been in the 1939 class at Lueders.
After they closed Bumpass Hill in 1935, it burned. Probably the same year.
Boyd was born 1921 in the old John Henry Morgan Commons house that was about a quarter of a mile west of where we lived on the Commons lease.
Myrtle Commons, one of the Commons girls, was a school teacher and taught Boyd at Bumpass Hill.
After Myrtle Commons left Bumpass Hill she taught for a while at Lueders and then taught about 30 years at Aspermont, Texas. Myrtle was a sister of Moris Commons, Glen's father.
After Myrtle left Bumpass Hill a Mr. Varner taught at Bumpass Hill.
Provided by:... Don Latimer, Class of 56 - : April 24, 2007
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