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 Poplar Branch School -  mid to late 1920s (multiple grades)

 

FIRST ROW

Birdie/Bertie Elizabeth Saunders (1916-1974); married 1st 1932 Victor Albert Zink, 2nd 1942 John Eschol Willett Spang, 3rd 1972 Gordon George Erickson

[William] Ervin Mathews (1917-2002); married 1939 Hazel Iris Parker

Lula Evelyn Beasley (1916-1978) sister of Hildreth Ulee Beasley listed below; married  1934 John A, Hughes divorced 1951

Mildred Calsie Aydlett (1917-1998); married 1943 Leslie Earl Evans, Sr.

Irvin Willard Barnard (1918-1988) US Navy

Possibly Robanna Griggs Hines (1917-2000); married 1935 John Gerald “Sonny” Wise

Possibly Elizabeth Bethell “Lizzie” Hines (1915-1993); married 1933 Herman Arwood Tillett
Robanna & Elizabeth Hines were daughters of Banister Jarvis Hines & Mary Elizabeth Perry.  Their son, Ervin Glenn Hines is listed in the second row.

Bertha Mae Barco (1917-2002); married 1935 Winfred St. Clair Gregory

Hildreth Ulee Beasley  (1918-1961); married 1st 1936 Harold Orlando Perry, 2nd  1939 Carol Jean Hughes

SECOND ROW

Elsie Marie Merrell (1917-2017); married 1st 1938 Dewey Mills in Douglas Co., WA; divorced 1977; married 2nd 1983 Keith Wilbur Henderson in San Mateo, CA

Sarah Ruth Grandy (1917-1997); married 1940 Thomas Floyd Whaley, Jr.

Addie Lucille Lewark (1916-1974); married 1938 Earl Ray Austin

Lillie Mae Darty (1914- 2009); married 1935 Charles Franklin Jolley

(unknown)

Possibly Ervin Glenn Hines (1913-1989); married 1943 Vera Midgett

Janie Melvin Duncan (1916-2006); married 1940 William Garnett Gregory

Johnnie Lee Lane (1916-1971); married 1st 1939 Mamie Bell Simpson, divorced 1968; married 2nd 1968 Eula Julia (Janutolo) Payne

Roy Edward Merrell (1915-2009); married 1940 Hilda Virginia Bryant
(Roy Edward & Elsie Marie Merrell were children of Isaac Holly & Pauline (Woodhouse) Merrell.)

THIRD ROW

Thomas Wilson “Tommy” Duncan (1914-2000); married 1964 Vera Glynn Davis
(Thomas Wilson & Janie Melvin Duncan were children of  Reuben Acklin Duncan & Emma Jane (Forbes) Duncan)

(unknown)

Ray Carl Garrington (1914- 1982 in El Paso, TX); U.S. Navy; married Nettie Lue Clark

Rupert Edwin Parker (1916-1988); never married

James Calvin Brumsey Jr. (1916-1932 see obit

??? Perry

Elza Macon Ballance “cute” (1917-1989); married 1945 Martha Griffin

Earl Francis Griggs (1916-1975 died of disease in Panama Canal Zone); married Althea May Lopez

Grace Odell Garrington (1915-1995); married 1st 1935 Henry Wood Outlaw; married 2nd 1943 David Farrow O’Neal, Jr.

FOURTH  ROW

John Calvin Gallop, Jr. (1915-2006; married 1st 1942 Cloey Elizabeth Buchanan; married 2nd 1978 Dorris Mildred Hyatt
[John Calvin was Dorris Hyatt 4th husband.]

??? Hines

Ambrose Monell Harris (1915-1961); married 1943 Edna Louise Brite

Benjamin Thomas Balsom, Jr. (1917-1988); married 1st 1942 Mary Elizabeth Vann, divorced 1946; married 2nd 1948 Ruby (Widner) Burnett; married 3rd 1954 Florence Amelia (Raborg) Duke

Mary Lee Virginia (1915-1994); married 1st 1937 Albert Herman Bishop; married 2nd 1961 John Joseph McCoy; married 3rd 1963 Arthur Jay Halstead

Mrs. Gregory (teacher)

The teacher was, Jennie Beatrice O'Neal, from Swan Quarter in Hyde Co, daughter of Edgar & Etta Lee (Harris) O'Neal.  She was born in 1903 and died in Chesapeake, Va. on Dec. 5, 1992..  She was 1st married to Norman Howard Gregory (1898-1983)  in Currituck Co. on Aug. 30, 1925.  They divorced.  She married 2nd William Thomas Early, Sr. in Norfolk, Va. on January 25, 1953.  Jennie Beatrice is buried in Epworth Methodist Church Cemetery in Scranton, Hyde County, NC.

Submitted by Doris Ann  (White) Younts.  No part of this document may be used for any commercial purposes. However, please feel free to copy any of this material for your own personal use and family research.