Brown School
Brown School #93
Plano, Texas
The school was located near the border between present-day Plano and Allen on the east side of US 75. In 1890 Brown School had 20 pupils; 31 in 1891; and 27 in 1892. In 1899 it had 22 students and in 1900 it had 19. Brown school #93 is not listed after 1900.
John Liter and Mary Susannah (Lunsford) Brown originally of Oldham County, Kentucky came to Texas in 1857 to Bethany Community. They gave 10,000 square feet in 1891, a bit of land west of the railroad tracks, at the northeast corner of their farm, for a school to the county, then known as District Schools.
The only known photo of the school was taken about 1890 and shows 18 students along with a teacher. The children to date identified in the photo are Henry Addington Brown with his two sisters Nannie Pat Brown [married Pat Moulden] and Mattie Dian Brown [married Reverend John Samuel Stockard, a later preacher of the Christian Church Allen]. The John L. Brown children had attended Bethany School previously.
Bethany School was quite some distance for the children to walk. It made sense for the Browns to build a school closer to their home for their growing family. After leaving Bethany School, the children were taught in the workroom structure on the Brown farm that was converted into a school. It was on the southeast side of the front yard, the house faced east. Later, this building became Brown’s workshop and a more formal school house was built.
The importance of education in the Brown family can be seen in the girls’ lives and the establishment of the early home schools where they each lived and later Brown School District 93 for the Brown children, as well as, Susannah’s half-brother, Owen Mathews, being an early teacher at Cottonwood School and Bethany School.
Plano, Texas
The school was located near the border between present-day Plano and Allen on the east side of US 75. In 1890 Brown School had 20 pupils; 31 in 1891; and 27 in 1892. In 1899 it had 22 students and in 1900 it had 19. Brown school #93 is not listed after 1900.
John Liter and Mary Susannah (Lunsford) Brown originally of Oldham County, Kentucky came to Texas in 1857 to Bethany Community. They gave 10,000 square feet in 1891, a bit of land west of the railroad tracks, at the northeast corner of their farm, for a school to the county, then known as District Schools.
The only known photo of the school was taken about 1890 and shows 18 students along with a teacher. The children to date identified in the photo are Henry Addington Brown with his two sisters Nannie Pat Brown [married Pat Moulden] and Mattie Dian Brown [married Reverend John Samuel Stockard, a later preacher of the Christian Church Allen]. The John L. Brown children had attended Bethany School previously.
Bethany School was quite some distance for the children to walk. It made sense for the Browns to build a school closer to their home for their growing family. After leaving Bethany School, the children were taught in the workroom structure on the Brown farm that was converted into a school. It was on the southeast side of the front yard, the house faced east. Later, this building became Brown’s workshop and a more formal school house was built.
The importance of education in the Brown family can be seen in the girls’ lives and the establishment of the early home schools where they each lived and later Brown School District 93 for the Brown children, as well as, Susannah’s half-brother, Owen Mathews, being an early teacher at Cottonwood School and Bethany School.
