Stiff Creek School
Stiff Creek School
Stiff Creek
Melissa, Texas
“I went to school in 1856 at the Stiff Creek School. It was about six miles northeast of McKinney on Stiff Creek, which took its name from early settlers, Jesse and Louis Stiff. It was a log house 14 by 16 feet, split log seats, no windows, cracks in the walls answered from windows, fireplace to heat the place. I walked about four miles and had to be very careful about wild cattle, snakes, pole cats, and such things. Puncheon floor. Sometimes a boy would catch his toe between the cracks in the floor, and this surely hurt, he was barefooted, of course. Subscription school. Jesse Martin older that I want to school. No black boards. Some had slate and pencil most did not. Teacher set a copy on slate and child learned to write this copy and then learned to write for its self.
Stiff Creek
Melissa, Texas
“I went to school in 1856 at the Stiff Creek School. It was about six miles northeast of McKinney on Stiff Creek, which took its name from early settlers, Jesse and Louis Stiff. It was a log house 14 by 16 feet, split log seats, no windows, cracks in the walls answered from windows, fireplace to heat the place. I walked about four miles and had to be very careful about wild cattle, snakes, pole cats, and such things. Puncheon floor. Sometimes a boy would catch his toe between the cracks in the floor, and this surely hurt, he was barefooted, of course. Subscription school. Jesse Martin older that I want to school. No black boards. Some had slate and pencil most did not. Teacher set a copy on slate and child learned to write this copy and then learned to write for its self.
