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gle1103CUJnuinailasinrpciIntinofboalearlt;*Ylt;ill)(f’:irl Kiff of a SorIon of 10)Thai whon I was near seven yoars old my mother died. A few months before her death she had started me to school in what was called the card class. Miss Lib*hie Saunders, a daughter of old Doctor Saunders, a well-known physician of the county, was my first teacher. Her room was o i the first floor of the old Seminary building, I remember crying all of , the fust morning in school. At the afternoon session I was farmed out to one of the girls in the class more advanced in letters than I Her name was Anna Ludwig, She taught me my A B.C.’a by means of small cards the size of a postage. , stamp on each card of which w as I f a letter. In after years Anna Ludwig married a man named Theisen I111 and continued to nuke Norw alk her I 1 lifetime home. She died less than, five years ago. having been in the ’ employ of the Fisher-Norwalk Coin- A*; pany for many years as a fore-L j woman.In that first school class of boysand girls a considerable number continued to make Norwalk their homes. I recall Harry Conklin.I, Fred Higgins, long an employee of the city light department, George Yaple, Fred IVttit Fred lianiedi,!the printer's trade and at one timein later life worked with me on theChronicle. He died many years ago T in Shreveport. La Dave Noble, fori; years a porter at the Avalon Hotel.hesualalfeNlt;m*..... ” * w Miv\‘ a bo one of my classmates 11i *•nikii* *Others were Ed Powers r Fay Stearns, Jim Ford, J? Harry Goodnow, Ben Wycoff. BertF suinn, Fred and Emil Kohlmyer twins*, one of whom could have been the grandfather of Ernest.present owner of the hardwarestore. The twins drifted to Lorain and both engaged in the hardware business. Also there was Bert Hasted. Hairy Pool, Henry Ernst. Charlie Miller. George Easley, Arthur McCoy, a bar Ism in Norwalk for many years. Thlt; odore Meuller who lived on Chatham Street and was a brother of Mrs. AndrewHiss. Albert Curtiss, Fred Brown,Harry Terry. Herb Delano, Fred W Cook. Will Furlong, OscarKnisley, a relative of the GeorgeLawrences, Henry Ludwig, Georg** Burnll iKotchumi, Ed Jacobs, Bodney King. Clara Penfield. Lulu Webb. Harry Marsh, G e o r g e Streeter. Fred Hlisted lt;Frosty. Iiob Kellogg, Minnie Skyrme, Charlie Enist. Nina Wood. Lusie Grant. Clara Ernst, Hettie Thorley. Maud Blish, Eli/a Morehouse lt;mother ofDr, Charles Peasley*. and BessieTerry (mother of Milo Cline*. Doubtless there are some that I have overlooked. Eighty years is along time. There may be a few left of that class which started in lH7tL so. perhaps they will take pleasure in having the old names brought to their attention after all the years.IsStlvrFevsr
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Norwalk Reflector Herald
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Sat, Aug 03, 1957
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