Independence School
Sedalia School #106
Independence
Westminster, Texas
The community of Sedalia was located near the Grayson County line northwest of Westminster. The school district was always called Independence in the newspapers.
In 1890 Independence School District had 42 students. in 1891 it had 20 students and 28 in 1892. L. E. Rosser was the teacher in 1901 and B. W. Hampton in 1905. It had 22 males and 34 females in 1908 and 79 in 1912. There were 102 students in 1925 and 82 students in 1940.
SEDALIA SCHOOL WINNER OF MANY HONORS RECENTLY
Its Record Is Hardly Equaled by Any Other in County
McKinney Weekly Democrat Gazette, April 15, 1937
The Sedalia School, located right in the northern edge of Collin County, has possibly the best record of any school of its class in this part of the state in Interscholastic League activities during the past term.
It is a county line school, which had to journey twenty miles to McKinney to the county meet. Yet it won an unusually large number of places and deserves the praise of all the county for its interest and the work of the faculty and pupils.
Honors won this past year included the girls Class C basketball championship of the county. Also at the county meet, Sedalia won first place in Senior Spelling, first place in Junior Spelling, first place in Picture Memory, first place in Story Telling and third place in Senior Girls’ Declamation. Sedalia also won first place in Choral Singing, being the only school to enter. But the students and faculty are deserving of high praise since they went to a great deal of trouble, learning all of the songs and placed twenty-five singers in uniform on the stage for the contest. Choral singing was started six years ago in Collin County, and Sedalia has had a group of singers every year, the only school in the county to have this continuous distinction.
Eight cars of patrons attended the Interscholastic meet here to cheer on the Sedalia contestants.
The school has been fortunate in having for principals and leaders wide awake, energetic faithful men and women, both faculty members and patrons. It is one of the best rural schools in the state.
The faculty at present is composed as follows: Prof. Joe Chumbley, Principal; Mrs. Eula Downey, Miss Martha V. Arnold and Mrs. A. W. Jernigan. The last-named teacher, Mrs. A. W. Jernigan, Route One, Van Alstyne, is a daughter of the late County Commissioner Perry Coffey of Westminster, where she was born and reared and a granddaughter of the late Esq. J. P. Coffey, Collin County pioneer who served for forty years as Justice of the Peace of the Melissa-Anna Justice of the Peace Precinct.
In 1918 the County Superintendent of Schools said this about Westminster Independent School:
“Sedalia has a new house well equipped and good play ground with the proper amount of walks. They are having the Sanitary Drinking Fountain put in for tis school. They have during the last year voted $2,500 in bonds. These bonds will be used to pay the indebtedness of the district and make such other repairs as are needed. This school is a credit to any district. Mr. Sewell McKinney and Miss Nola Reeves are the teachers.”
Independence had a colored school. Students from New Albany were transferred to it.
Independence
Westminster, Texas
The community of Sedalia was located near the Grayson County line northwest of Westminster. The school district was always called Independence in the newspapers.
In 1890 Independence School District had 42 students. in 1891 it had 20 students and 28 in 1892. L. E. Rosser was the teacher in 1901 and B. W. Hampton in 1905. It had 22 males and 34 females in 1908 and 79 in 1912. There were 102 students in 1925 and 82 students in 1940.
SEDALIA SCHOOL WINNER OF MANY HONORS RECENTLY
Its Record Is Hardly Equaled by Any Other in County
McKinney Weekly Democrat Gazette, April 15, 1937
The Sedalia School, located right in the northern edge of Collin County, has possibly the best record of any school of its class in this part of the state in Interscholastic League activities during the past term.
It is a county line school, which had to journey twenty miles to McKinney to the county meet. Yet it won an unusually large number of places and deserves the praise of all the county for its interest and the work of the faculty and pupils.
Honors won this past year included the girls Class C basketball championship of the county. Also at the county meet, Sedalia won first place in Senior Spelling, first place in Junior Spelling, first place in Picture Memory, first place in Story Telling and third place in Senior Girls’ Declamation. Sedalia also won first place in Choral Singing, being the only school to enter. But the students and faculty are deserving of high praise since they went to a great deal of trouble, learning all of the songs and placed twenty-five singers in uniform on the stage for the contest. Choral singing was started six years ago in Collin County, and Sedalia has had a group of singers every year, the only school in the county to have this continuous distinction.
Eight cars of patrons attended the Interscholastic meet here to cheer on the Sedalia contestants.
The school has been fortunate in having for principals and leaders wide awake, energetic faithful men and women, both faculty members and patrons. It is one of the best rural schools in the state.
The faculty at present is composed as follows: Prof. Joe Chumbley, Principal; Mrs. Eula Downey, Miss Martha V. Arnold and Mrs. A. W. Jernigan. The last-named teacher, Mrs. A. W. Jernigan, Route One, Van Alstyne, is a daughter of the late County Commissioner Perry Coffey of Westminster, where she was born and reared and a granddaughter of the late Esq. J. P. Coffey, Collin County pioneer who served for forty years as Justice of the Peace of the Melissa-Anna Justice of the Peace Precinct.
In 1918 the County Superintendent of Schools said this about Westminster Independent School:
“Sedalia has a new house well equipped and good play ground with the proper amount of walks. They are having the Sanitary Drinking Fountain put in for tis school. They have during the last year voted $2,500 in bonds. These bonds will be used to pay the indebtedness of the district and make such other repairs as are needed. This school is a credit to any district. Mr. Sewell McKinney and Miss Nola Reeves are the teachers.”
Independence had a colored school. Students from New Albany were transferred to it.
