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In 1873, the County Board put a stop to the Supt's. visiting schools, by limiting the time for which he shall be 31
paid by the county for educational work, to so small a number of days that it is impossible for him to perform all other educational work which is peremptorily required of him by law, within the number of days for which he is paid, He was allowed pay for 37 days for educational work during the last school year. The County Board has fixed the salary of the County Supt. elected Nov. 7th, 1852, at $180 a year. This does not include his commission as financial ageut of school fund. There are now sixty-nine school districts in the county. Each of one hundred and nine teachers, taught in the county, some part of the last school year. The aggregate compensation of them was $18,623.91. The average pay of male teachers during the year was $38 10 per mooth. Same of females, $30.68. Amount of Township funds in the County, $15,8 4.63. Amount of County fund, $4353.07. Amount of tax levied by school districts, collec- ted, and paid Township Treasurers and by them disbursed for school purposes, $16,552.51.
Graded Schools-Although some districts had more then one teacher previous to 1567, there was no regular graded school in one building previous to that date. The first graded school in the county was opened in the brick school- house in Du Quoin Jany. 2nd, 1867.
The Principals have been B. G. Roots, S. R. Wilson, E. J. Palmer, J. B. Ward, H. A. Cooledge, G. F. Foster, J. B. Ward, (two years, ) B. W. Pope, J. B. Ward, (three years,) C. O. Sawyer, (two years.) J. B Ward, is now principal.
Pinckneyville Graded School began in 1870.
Principals and Assistants .- 1870, Principal, Wm. MeNeil ; Salary per month, $60.00; Assts., E. H. Lemen, 855.00; Đ. A. Hoge, 850 00 ; 1871, Prin. S. Gee, Assts. D. 1. Hoge and Miss Jenner ; 1872, Prin. D A. Hoge, Asts. Eliza Harshaw and J. H1. Thornton ; 1873, P'rin. D. A. Hoge, Assts. Miss Lyon and Miss Mary Primm ; 1874, Prin. S. C. Bond, Assts. E M. Hawkins and A. P. Owens ; 1875, Prin. B G. Roots, Salary per month, $100 00. Assistants Emma Wheatley, Miss L. Abbott, Alice Bargess, D. B. Van Syekle, R. B. Anderson and Geo. H. Farmer, have each been prin- cipal one year ; 1852, Samuel Y. Hawkins principal. In every case in which the salary or names of assistants is omitted in the above list I have been unable to learn what they were.
Tamaroa .- I have searched carefully for faets respecting the Tamaroa Graded School. I am not fully satisfied with the fruits of my search, but I believe the following is a cor- rect list of Principals. The date following the name denotes the year in which the person named became principal. Some of the principals named below taught before the school be- came a regular Graded School in one building :
Green, 1859 ; Wells, 1860 ; Miss A. F. Holt, 1862-63-64; P. White, 1865; A Etherton, 1866; Wyatt, 1867; J. B. Ward, 1868; Miss A. F. Holt, 1869; W. E. Smith, 1870; J. B. Ward, 1871; P. White, 1872; Wm. Edwards, 1873; B. W. Pope, 1874; W. G. Hcape, 1875; J. H. Thornton, 1876; B. G. Roots, 1877; R. B. Anderson, 1878; E. J. Ward, 1879; P. F. Adkins, 1880; Matt. Fergerson, 1881 ; C. Laban Kruse, 1882.
In Du Quoin School, every since it became a graded
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school, all the branches named in a first grade certificate are taught.
These branches have all been taught at some time in the other two graded schools. Miss Holt taught some of the first grade branches while she was Principal of Tamaroa. Dur- ing her last term of service the School Board prohibited the teaching of any but second grade branches, and the first grade has been taught but little in this school since then. About one fourth of the teachers in the ungraded schools are qual- ified to teach first grade branches, and most of these do teach some of them.
On August 25 and 26, 1882, sixty-nine applicants for teachers' certificates were examined. Fifteen of these re- ceived First. Grade certificates; thirty-five received Second Grade, and nineteen failed of coming up to the lowest stand- ing, on which the County Superintendent issues a certificate.
Du Quoin and Pinckneyville are the only points in the county at which there are many colored children. At each of these places a separate public school for them has been kept for several years past.
The few of them who reside in other districts attend the- common school with the whites.
Du Quoin Female Seminary .- Was located about five miles southeast of Du Quoin, in what was then known as Du Quoin, and now known as Old Du Quoin. Next to the County seat, it was the largest village in the County. This institution should be named in this history as having been an important factor in improving the public schools. It came into existance through the influence of an eastern teacher, (Miss Paine, of South Hadley, Mass.,) sent out by an Educational Society in answer to an application for a teacher for this locality.
Miss Paine commenced her teaching in the District School- House June, 1852. More scholars came in than the house would accommodate, so a room was fitted up in another build- ing, and a second teacher (Miss Reynolds, from Connecticut,) sent for, and employed to assist Miss Paine in her work.
In the fall of 1853, Miss Paine opened a private school, which became the Seminary after a charter had been ob- tained from the Legislature, and a Board of Trustees ap- pointed. The corner-stone of an excellent Seminary building was laid June 13, 1855, and a permanent superstructure was erected in a reasonable time.
" To train teachers on the field " was laid down as theprom- inent object of the school. Teachers' diplomas were given to those that became proficient in the branches required by the school law of this State; and those that went out from this institution to teach, made marked improvements in the schools where they taught.
Rev. Josiah Wood devoted himself largely to the welfare of the Seminary. The early teachers, as copied from a cata- logue, were Miss E. Paine, Miss Jane Hunt, Miss M. M. Moulton, Mrs. E. R. Saunders, Miss H. L. Plimpton, Miss Lizzie A. Dole, Miss Hattie Paine.
The debt contracted in erecting the building, caused it to pass into private hands in 1872. Since it became private property a school for both sexes has been maintained with creditable success.
SUPPLEMENT.
Since writing the foregoing, I have gathered the following additional statements respecting the schools in each of the precincts, into which the county is now divided, from such sources, that I believe them reliable :
Pinckneyville .- The first school in this precinct, was taught in a log school house 16x16 in 1831, near the West side of Four Mile Prairie, at $2 50 per scholar for six months.
In 1832, Eliza Smith, from Kentucky, taught in a small log-school-house near Thomas Armstrong's. Later S. W. Woodside taught here.
June 3d, 1833, the Sheriff, by order of County Court, leased the Court-house for school purposes at fifty cents a month, to be paid by the teacher, or by the subscribers to the School Article.
Paradise .- The first school in this precinct was taught in 1830, by John S. Haggard.
A man named Hagaman taught in another part of the precinct at the same time. No building was erected for school purposes previous to 1838. Up to this time schools were taught in the house of the teacher, or in some deserted cabin. The first teacher in the new school-honse, was R. P. Paramore. Obadiah West was also an early teacher in this precinct.
Du Quoin Precinct .- The first school in this precinct was taught by Abraham Brayshaw, about 1830, in the west part of Nine Mile Prairie. The first school-house was erected about three and a half miles south of where Du Quoin now is, and a Mr. Beneldo was the first who taught in it.
Tamaroa Precinct .- The Bland school-house, about five miles northeast from Tamaroa, was erected in 1832 or '3, and named after " Grandfather " Bland. First teacher was Jacob Walker, and the second teacher was "Granddaddy" Johnson. who taught in 1834.
Cutler Precinct. - The first school was taught in Lost Prairie, by Miss E. Tilden. The first school-house was erected on section 16, T 5, S. R. 4 W, in 1835, in the same prairie. Johp Cooper taught in it during the summer of 1835 About the same date a school was taught for a short time in Conant's Prairie, but it could not be kept up.
Grand Cote Precinct .- The first school was taught in a little cabin, on S. E. } of sec. 30, T. 4. S R. 4 W. The next school was taught by John Fulton, in his kitchen on sec. 4, town 4, in 1835 or '6.
Beaucoup Precinct. - The children who resided west of Hutching's Prairie, at first attended at "Big Rock " school- house, in Washington county. Those who lived east of this prairie, attended school in Mud Prairie. The first school- house was erected on Edward Hodge's place, the second on the Truster place, in 1850.
Southwestern .- Robert Clark taught the first school in 1825, in a little log school-house, erected the same year. The architecture of the school-houses named, in connection with the several precincts, was similar to the description, given by Messrs. Eaton, and copied in the former part of this sketch. Books were also much the same. In some schools, the American Preceptor, Columbian Orator and Pike's Arithmetic, were used also.
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CHAPTER XIII.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
RANDOLPH COUNTY. REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHI.
BY REV. W. J. SMILEY.
HE history of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Randolph county goes back to the year 1818. To the Rev. Samuel Wylie belongs the credit of the planting of the church. Ile was born in Connty Antrim, Ireland, February 19, 1790; came to the United States in 1807 ; en- tered the l'niversity of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in the class of 1811 ; prepared for the ministry in the Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, under the care of his uncle, Dr. S. B. Wylie, and was licensed to preach in May, 1815, at Philadelphia, by the Middle Presbytery.
In the summer of 1817 he visited various places in the West, passing through Illinois and continuing his travels as far as Boonville, Mo. On his return he again passed through Illinois and spent the winter in supplying the va- cancies in Tennessee and South Carolina.
At the meeting of the Synod in Pittsburg in the latter part of May, 1818, he reported his travels and the pros- pect for church extension in the West. Synod ordered the Middle Presbytery to take him on trial for ordination. and he was accordingly ordained in Pittsburg, Pa., on the 2d of June, 1818, and sent as a missionary to Southern Illinois. Mr. Wylie reached Kaskaskia the last day of July following and immediately entered upon his work.
The field of operation at first was Randolph county, though it afterward embraced parts of Perry, Washington and St Clair. A number of families belonging to the As- sociate Reformed church in South Carolina had moved into the county early in the present century, and made a settle- ment near the present town of Preston. They had been organized into a congregation by Rev. S. Brown, of Ken- tucky, a number of years before Mr. Wylie's arrival. and being without preaching from their own ministers, by request, Mr. Wylie made his principal preaching place with them. Members of the Reformed Presbyterian church began to come in. James M. Gray was the first to arrive. He came in October, and was followed immediately by his father-in- law, James Wilson, and family. They came from near Vincennes, Indiana, where they had lived a number of years after leaving South Carolina. They first settled near Kaskaskia, but finally located about three miles south of Sparta.
John MeDill, Sr., and Hugh McKelvey, from South Carolina, came out in the summer of ISI8, and bought land in Township 4-5. On their way home they stopped in Ten- nesseee with William Edgar, Samuel Nisbet and Samuel Little, who had removed from South Carolina a number of
years before, and informed them of the mission begun in Illinois. They immediately set out for Kaskaskia and pur- chased laud, and Messrs. Edgar and Little moved out in the spring of 1819. Mr. Nisbet, however, was detained and did uot arrive until September. Mr. Dill did not move out until November, 1819, though his son, John, came in the spring of that year, and began to improve his father's place. Mr. MeKelvey did not come until 1820. Mrs. Elizabeth Ritchie came in 1818; John McMillan and family, from Princeton, Indiana, arrived about the close of 1818 or the the beginning of 1819, and settled on Plum creek, near the present town of Houston. David Catheart and his son-in- law, William Campbell, from South Carolina, came in the spring of 1819, and settled in the lower end of Grand Cute Prairie. Alexander Alexander arrived in the spring of 1819, and bought land near the old grave-yard, and after im- proving his place, returned to South Carolina and brought out his family in the latter part of 1819. His father-in-law, John MeDill, Sr., James Munford and John Diekey, with their families came at the same time. John McMillan, of the Associate church, also came with them and settled between E en and Sparta, and Munford and Dickey settled north- east of Elen. James Strahan, from western Pennsylvania, came in the spring of 1819, and settled first down toward Kaskaskia, but finally in the west end of Grand Cote.
Mr. Wylie continued to preach in Kaskaskia and in the Irish settlement and among the Covenanters, until the arrival of William Edgar and Samuel Little, when the first session was constituted, May 24, 1819, at James McClurken's, about six miles southwest of Sparta. William Edgar had been ordained to the ellership in the Rocky creek congregation, South Carolina, in ISDI, and Saml. Little in Hephzibah con- gregation, Tennessee, at its organization in the spring of 1×15.
This may be reckoned the formal organization of Bethel Reformed Presbyterian Church. It is thought by some that the first communion was held at that time.
A call was made soon after for Rev. J Wylie and for- warded to Synod to meet in Conococheague in August, 1819. The call itself bears no date, but the letter accompanying it bears date June 7, 1819, and is signed on behalf of the meeting by James Wilson and Samuel Little.
The following names, with their accompanying subserip- tions, are attached to the call, viz .: James Wilson, 820; Samuel Little, 815; James McClurken, 815; William Edgar, $10; James Strahan, 812: James M. Gray, 810; David Catheart, 810; H. II. Christie, 85; John McMillan, 815 ; Alexander Alexander, $10; John McDill, $10; Thos. G. Armour, 810; Elizabeth Ritchie, $20. The names of fifteen others follow, who had not the opportunity of signing in their proper place, viz. : Jennet C. Edgar, Nancy Wilson, Sarah Wilson, Rachel Wilson, Jennet Strahan, John Wilson, Jr, Martin Wilson, Jenny Wilson. Jenny Gray, Jenny Little, Susanna MeClurken, Ann Strahan, Margaret MeMillan, Mary Edgar. Accompanying the call was a subscription amounting to 8150 from the Associate Reformed congrega- tion already referred to, for which they desired part of Mr. Wylie's time. The matter is thus referred to in the letter : '. We beg leave to add that there is in this county a very
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respectable congregation belonging to the Associate Re- formed church. These people live amongst us, or more properly, we live amongst them. They are (we believe) pre- pared to supplicate for part of Mr. Wylie's time. The places where he would preach to them would be tolerably convenient to his own people. This circumstance would appear accommodating to us at present. We have not, however, craved their assistance; but we are more than willing to further their edification and comfort."
The letter urges the acceptance of the call strongly and skillfully. Synod referred the call to the Western Presbytery, and at a meeting of that court held in Hartford, Indiana, October 11, 1819, it was presented and accepted, and the Rev. John Kell appointed to install Mr. Wylie as pastor. For some reason the installation did not take place.
Presbytery met in Bethel congregation in the spring of 1820. The question of Mr. Wylie's settlement was again brought up, but it was deemed best to wait another year. At this time a communion was held at Samuel Little's, and James Mumford and James McClurken were added to the session ; the former had been an elder in South Carolina ; the latter was formerly a member of the Associate Reformed church, and having joined the Covenanters in 1819, was chosen and ordained to the fellowship at this time.
A second call was made out for Mr. Wylie May 22, 1821. It was signed by thirty-five members, who subscribed $208 for his support. The names on the call show the finan- cial but not the numerical strength of the congregation. It is probable that the number of the membership at this time was abont seventy. The call was presented to Presbytery on the 24th of May, and at length accepted, Mr. Wylie agreeing to give the congregation half his time, leaving the other half to be employed in mission work. He was in- stalled pastor on the 28th of May, 1821, over the congre- gation which he had gathered in the field where he had labored now nearly three years as a missionary.
All the names of those contributing for ministerial sup- port. on the former call are on this except those of James M. Gray, who had died, Thos. G. Armour and H. H. Christie. The following new names appear : Thomas Blair, who came from Pittsburg, but remained only a short time and then returned; Joseph Weir, from South Carolina, who settled in Lively Prairie; Alexander McKelvey, who settled near his father, Hugh, in Grand Cote, in 1820; William Temple, William Marshall and James Beattie, who came together from the vicinity of Pittsburgh in 1821, and settled north- east of Eden. Mr. Temple afterward located about three miles west of Sparta. James Munford and John Dickey, wbose arrival has already been noticed; John Alexander, wbo settled near his brother ; Adam Edgar, son of William Edgar, and came at the same time; Ann McMillan (mother of John McMillan on Plum creek), and Mary Boyd, an unmarried woman who lived with her; Robert Bratney, who came from Tennessee in 1280; his son, Joseph, who came at the same time, was also a member. They settled west of Lively Prairie, near Preston. Robert Sinclair, who came from South Carolina and settled in Grand Cote ; Samuel Nisbet, who arrived with his family from Tennessee
September 11, 1819, and settled east of Eden ; Jeremiah Murphy, also from Tennessee, who settled in the lower part of the county, near Shiloh ; James Gordon, son-in-law of James Wilson, who came from Indiana in the fall of 1819, settled south of Sparta, where his son, A. J. Gordon, now lives ; Hugh Mckelvey and Samuel Allan, who came in 1820; William Cambell, who came in the spring of 1819 with his father-in-law, David Cathcart, and James McWil- lan, also from South Carolina, who settled on the place where John McClinton now lives. The subscriptions ranged from two to fifteen dollars.
Among other members who came at an early day may be mentioned Robert Moore and wife. He remained but a short time, but during his residence here he taught the first school in the neighborhood. This was probably in 1821, and the school-house was on sec. 7, town 5-5, southeast of Sparta. The next school was taught in the summer of 1822, by Gordon Ewing in a house southeast of Eden. Mr. Ewing came out from Philadelphia in the spring of 1822, along with Mrs. Wylie (mother of Rev. Wylie) and her daughter, Mrs. Dobbins. The following year he was en- gaged in teaching in an academy in Kaskaskia along with Mr. Wylie. He was received as a student of theology by the Western Presbytery June 2, 1823, and subsequently became a minister in the Reformed Presbyterian church. While teaching in Kaskaskia he was a principal agent in securing the organization of a Sabbath-school in the fall of 1823. It was attended in the morning by the white " child- ren, English and French, to the number of fifty, and in the afternoon by the blacks to the same number. Some of the most respectable citizens are engaged as teachers."
The congregation still continued to increase. The early records of session are missing, but a report prepared for Presbytery, bearing date March 25, 1825, gives the number of members received up to that time as follows: Received on testimonial, 77; on personal examination, 44. Of these, seven had removed to other congregations, and eight had died, leaving the membership at that date 106, and the number of families 51. The number of infant baptisms was 42.
The first places of preaching were under the trees of the forest, in cabins and in barns. The first house of worship was a frame 28x40 feet, built in 1823. It soon became too small to accommodate the growing congregation. It was decided first, July 14, 1827, to enlarge the house, and finally, February 11, 1830, to sell and build a new brick church.
Two sites were named for the new church-the one the old site lowland (about 200 yards south of the old grave- yard) ; the other upland, about three-fonrths of a mile northeast of the old church, within the present limits of Eden,-the location to be determined by the amount of the subscriptions in favor of each. The new site was chosen. A building committee was appointed, and the work let for $800. Those in favor of the old site became dissatisfied, and the matter was finally referred to Presbytery for settle- ment.
Pending its settlement, a petition for a separate organiza- tion was presented, signed by 27 families, who favored the
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old site and were opposed to the new church. The request was granted and a second congregation formed on the 5th of November, 1831.
The first elders in Bethel congregation, were in the new organization, and claiming this to be the original congrega- tion, they prefixed the name Old to the original name Bethel, and are so known to this day. The new church was 45x60. It was inclosed in 1832, so that the congrega- tion used it during that summer and the summer following.
For many years, a difference of opinion existed among ministers and members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, respecting the moral character of the United States government, and consequently a difference of opinion, re- »pecting the practical application of the principles of the church on civil government.
This difference of opinion, was the occasion of a division in the body, in 1833. The general Synod was divided into two separate organizations, in August of that year.
The one retained the name General Synod, and the other is known as the Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church.
The former allows her members to decide for themselves, as to their participation in civil affairs, prohibiting only such connection with the government as involves immorality.
The latter does not allow her members to vote, or hold office, provided this implies support of the Constitution of the United States, or to sit on juries. This division affected nearly all the congregations in the body.
Bethel was divided. The pastor, and James Munford, J. K. Taylor, James Blair and Thomas Blair, members of session, with the majority of the congregation, adhered to General Synod.
A. McMillan and Jas. Coulter, with the minority of the congregation, took the side of the Synod. Old Bethel also sided with the Synod. James McClurken, however adhered to the General Synod, and returning to Bethel, he was again chosen ruling elder, March, 1834, an office which he filled until his death, Jan. 17th, 1851. A few other families re- turned about the same time.
The new church building was inclosed, but not yet finished. The question of ownership arose. Samuel Nisbet and An- drew Miller, the former with General Synod, the latter with the Synod, proposed a settlement. Mr. Miller chose the church, and each chose two arbitrators (they choosing a fifth) to whom the decision of the terms was left. They decided, that those taking the church should get all sub- scriptions given by those, not members of the church, and those with the General Synod should receive their own sub- scriptions back again.
In the spring of 1834, the congregation resolved to build a new brick church, 50x60, close by the second building. The old frame church was occupied by the congregation, while the new one was being built.
It was begun in 1834, and inelosed the following year. The whole cost was about 82700, which was mostly provided for, by the sale of the pews.
In 1828, 69 families and 127 communicants are reported. In 1836, 90 families and 205 communicants are reported. The next year shows, 99 families and 233 communicants.
The congregation now began to colonize. As early as February, 1834, a petition was presented from Mud Creek, asking for supplies. Supplies were given from time to time, until June 12th, 1838, when the Mud Creek society was or- ganized, as Salem congregation, John Hemphill and James MeIntire, being ordained elders. James Wilson, an elder in Bethel, also belonged to the new organization. The so- ciety in Six mile, and that in Hill Prairie, received organiza- tion in 1842. The former took the name Concord, and the latter Hill Prairie. Dr. R. W. Marshall and Robert Mathews, were the first elders in Hill Prairie. We do not follow its history farther, save to say that in connection with Concord, it formed the pastoral charge of Rev. M. Harshaw, who was ordained to the ministry in the Bethel church Eden, Nov. 9th, 1842. The history of Concord will be given among the churches of Perry county. Grand Cote, on the northeast, took steps for an organization, in 1849, and it was effected at the house of James Robb, on the 8th of February, 1850. James Robb, and A. R. MeKelvey, were chosen to the eldership, and ordained in Eden on the 7th of March, following. The membership numbered sixty.
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