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Old Catalogue Reopens Falkville College History
Barrett Shelton Jr. reports Falkville Normal College operated 1897 to 1922 in Falkville. The second annual 1898-99 catalogue found in G D Sims' home details founders Prof J B Sherrill and Ora, wagon trains, early faculty, and a quarter system with tuition from 1 to 2.50 per month plus board. It notes private ownership, public service, and a shift away from cram methods toward practical private normals.
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Falkville
Falkville Normal College
E. L. Drinkard
G. D. Sims
Falk‘ie
Emma Peck
Hugh Plemons
J. B. Sherrill
Ora
Joppa
Ala
Plemons
Prof
Sherrill
D. W. McGlathery
J. C. Black
John L. Plemons
J. C. Tidwell
D. C. Stinson
F. B. Hunter
W. S. Brown
M. F. Patterson
S. T. Nesmith
J. Patterson
Lacon
J. W. Hampton
Jones’ Chaple
W. H. Drinkard
Lawrence Cove
T. W. Powell
H. L. Heidelberg
Cullman
H. T. Lyle
County Supt. of Education
Trinity
W. T. Walling
Walling
Samuel Blackwell
Decatur
J. O. Neill
Gandy's Cove
E. L. Hays
D. L. Green
Fairville Normal
Joseph F. Johnson
Phillicalian
John Green
John Conley
Willie