Lone Elm (Rivers) School
Lone Elm School #114
Rivers
West Cottage Hill Parkway
Weston, Texas
There were 2 Lone Elm School districts in Collin County – one south of Weston and one north of present-day Wylie. The Lone Elm School south of Weston was also called Rivers.
A History of Collin County, Texas by Stambaugh and Stambaugh says this school started in 1869. Its district number, #114, indicates that that is not true. There were only 100 school districts in 1880. The Lone Elm School at Wylie is the one that started around 1869.
The Lone Elm Rivers School had 41 students in 1890; 40 males and 13 females in 1909; 52 students in 1912; and 36 students in 1925.
The teachers included J. A. Lee in 1901; Miss Julia Vernon in 1905; and Miss Gladys Shook in 1919.
The Lone Elm school district did not open until after New Year’s in 1919. The school was awaiting completion of a two-teacher modern school building that would prove quite a credit to the intelligence and the devotion of the citizenship of that community to the cause of education.
The Chambersville, Ash Grove, and Lone Elm school districts consolidated in 1931 and were planning to let bids for a new school building to accommodate the pupils of the Consolidated district.
The building was located one mile west of the Chambersville store, and all of the usable material in the old school houses will be worked in the new building.
Mr. Collie Carruth and son, Levi, had the contract to move the Lone Elm School house to the Chambersville school grounds.
The school opened in 1936 with a large crowd of children, their teachers and numerous patrons present.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Rivers are a worthy couple living in this community. Mr. and Mrs. Rivers are both natives of Collin County. He is the oldest son of the late William Rivers, pioneer settler of this community and on whose farm the Lone Elm/Rivers schoolhouse stood for many years until the district was consolidated with Chambersville and the schoolhouse moved away.
W. D. Thompson served as trustee of the Lone Elm school for some twenty-odd years.
Rivers
West Cottage Hill Parkway
Weston, Texas
There were 2 Lone Elm School districts in Collin County – one south of Weston and one north of present-day Wylie. The Lone Elm School south of Weston was also called Rivers.
A History of Collin County, Texas by Stambaugh and Stambaugh says this school started in 1869. Its district number, #114, indicates that that is not true. There were only 100 school districts in 1880. The Lone Elm School at Wylie is the one that started around 1869.
The Lone Elm Rivers School had 41 students in 1890; 40 males and 13 females in 1909; 52 students in 1912; and 36 students in 1925.
The teachers included J. A. Lee in 1901; Miss Julia Vernon in 1905; and Miss Gladys Shook in 1919.
The Lone Elm school district did not open until after New Year’s in 1919. The school was awaiting completion of a two-teacher modern school building that would prove quite a credit to the intelligence and the devotion of the citizenship of that community to the cause of education.
The Chambersville, Ash Grove, and Lone Elm school districts consolidated in 1931 and were planning to let bids for a new school building to accommodate the pupils of the Consolidated district.
The building was located one mile west of the Chambersville store, and all of the usable material in the old school houses will be worked in the new building.
Mr. Collie Carruth and son, Levi, had the contract to move the Lone Elm School house to the Chambersville school grounds.
The school opened in 1936 with a large crowd of children, their teachers and numerous patrons present.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Rivers are a worthy couple living in this community. Mr. and Mrs. Rivers are both natives of Collin County. He is the oldest son of the late William Rivers, pioneer settler of this community and on whose farm the Lone Elm/Rivers schoolhouse stood for many years until the district was consolidated with Chambersville and the schoolhouse moved away.
W. D. Thompson served as trustee of the Lone Elm school for some twenty-odd years.
