This is a transcription of Shelby Township school records, pages 229 - 249. The original document is held at the Kramer Museum, Betty Copeland, Secretary.
Page 229 Enumeration for 1869 | School No 1 | Male | Female | Town | Range | | 1 Mary Beebe | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12 | | 2 George Stevenson | 4 | 1 | 5 | 12 | | 3 William B. Niles | 1 | | 5 | 12 | | 4 Edward P. Niles | 2 | 2 | 5 | 12 | | 5 Charles Woolley | | 2 | 5 | 12 | | 6 James H. Demaree | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12 | | 7 James Smock | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | | 8 William Herren | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | | 9 Thomas McCreary | 1 | 5 | 5 | 12 | | 10 Eliza Campbell | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 | | 11 Michael Cooper | 1 | 1 | 5 | 12 | | 12 William H. Fuget | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 | | 13 Joseph W. Buchanan | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 | | 14 Charles N. Lanham | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | | 15 Thomas Voris | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12 | | 16 Alpha Foster | 3 | | 5 | 12 | | 17 Christopher Beebe | 3 | 1 | 5 | 12 | | 18 James F. Alfrey | 1 | | 5 | 12 | | 19 Cynthia McCollough | | 1 | 5 | 12 | | 20 Mrs. Miller | 1 | | 5 | 12 | | | 34 | 29 | | | Total 63 1869 Oct 12th Appointed & qualified Thomas Voris as Director of the above School. Nov 15th Employed Charles N. Lanham to teach the above School at $1.67 ½ per day. to commence Nov. 15th 1869 E. P. Niles Trustee S.T. Blank Page 230 Page 231 Enumeration for 1869 | School No. 2 Names of Parents or Guardians | Male | Female | Town | Range | | 1 Jonathan Kinnett | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | | 2 John H. Means | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | | 3 Levi C. Peters | 4 | 3 | 5 | 11 | | 4 George N. Vestile | | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 5 George W. Mermoud | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 | | 6 Lewis A. Connor | | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 7 Charles Black | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 8 John R. Peak | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 9 Matilda Means | 3 | | 5 | 11 | | 10 John Risk Sen. | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 11 Elliott J. Vestile | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 12 Joseph R. Jarvis | 3 | | 5 | 11 | | 13 Davidson Baker | | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 14 John J. Risk | | 3 | 5 | 11 | | 15 Mary M. Brooks | | 3 | 5 | 11 | | 16 James Thornton | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 17 Emeline Risk | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 18 Isaac Connor | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 19 Elizabeth Vestile | | 1 | 5 | 12 | | 20 David I. Spencer | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 21 William Moodie | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | | 28 | 35 | | | Total 63 Nov 20th Appointed & qualified Davidson Baker as Director of the above School Nov 15th Employed David I. Spencer to teach the above School at $1.75 per day. to commence Nov 15th 1869 Page 232 Enumeration for 1869 | School No. 3 Names of Parents or Guardians | Male | Female | Town | Range | | 1 William H. H. Benefiel | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 2 John R. Bair | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 3 James H Means | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 4 Enoch Buchanan | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 | | 5 John W. McLaughlin | 4 | | 5 | 11 | | 6 Joshua Wehr | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 7 William Means | | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 8 Dillard C. Whitham | 2 | | 5 | 11 | | 9 John W. Gordon | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 10 Jordan Johnson | | 3 | 5 | 11 | | 11 Russell Lunn | | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 12 Hiram Hillis | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 13 Elizabeth Higbee | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | | 17 | 19 | | | Total 36 1869 Oct 12th Employed Nancy Voris to teach the above School a $1.65 per day. School to commenceOct 25th 1869 Oct 30th Appointed & qualified John W. Gordon as Directed of the above School. Page 233 Enumeration for 1869 | School No. 4 Names of Parents or Guardians | Male | Female | Town | Range | | 1 William H. Buchanan | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 2 Sarah Weatherford | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 3 Joseph H. Ryker | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 4 John W. Benefiel | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 5 Samuel A. McLeland | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 6 John T. Lemen | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 7 Jas W. May | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 8 Geo. S. May | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 9 Andrew Carmine | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 10 Wm. H. Flint | 4 | 3 | 5 | 11 | | 11 Taylor Wright | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 12 Susan McCoy | | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 13 Philip Stevens | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 14 William Gordon | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 15 Sytha M. Barber | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 16 William Smith | | | 5 | 11 | | 17 Solomon Weatherford | | | 5 | 11 | | 18 Sylvanus G. Smith | | | | | | | 24 | 13 | | | Total 37 Oct 16th Appointed and qualified Taylor Wright as Director of the above School Nov Employed Mattie J. Smith to teach the above School at $1.65 per day. School to commence Oct 25th 1869 . E. P. Niles Trustee S.T. Note: Written diagonally on entries numbers 16, 17, and 18 are the following words: Enumerated for School purposes. Page 234 Enumeration for 1869 | School No. 5 Names of Parents or Guardians | Male | Female | Town | Range | | 1 Thomas J. Wise | 1 | 2 | | | | 2 William Beebe | 1 | 2 | | | | 3 Thomas Dunn | 2 | 2 | | | | 4 Thomas S. Mitchell | 1 | 3 | | | | 5 Rachel Beebe | 1 | | | | | 6 W. T. Johnson | 1 | 1 | | | | 7 Jas H. Smith | 2 | 1 | | | | 8 Mary Herren | 3 | 2 | | | | 9 Andrew Woodfill | 1 | | | | | 10 Leah Storm | | 2 | | | | 11 James R. Lewis | 1 | 3 | | | | 12 Ryker Robbins | 2 | 1 | | | | 13 John Smitha | 1 | | | | | | 17 | 19 | | | | | | | Total | 36 | | Clarence C. Woodfill, Colored | 1 | | 1 | | | | 18 | 19 | | | | | | | Total | 37 | 1869 Oct 25th Employed Rachel McNeel to teach the above School at $1.60 per day. School to commence October 26th 1869 1870 Jan 9th Appointed & qualified William Beebe as Director of above School. Page 235 Enumeration for 1869 | School No. 6 Names of Parents or Guardians | Male | Female | Town | Range | | 1 Robert P. Copeland | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 2 Thomas Poston | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 3 William Barkis | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 4 James Gordon | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 5 Robert Stevenson | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 6 S. W. Copeland | | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 7 Martin H. Daily | 1 | 6 | 5 | 11 | | 8 Lucy A. Elless | | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 9 Conrad Storm | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 10 John W. Robbins | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 11 Lafayette Marquis | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 12 Hugh G. Manford | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | | 18 | 19 | | | | | | | Total | 37 | | Martin H Daily | 1 | | 1 | | | | 19 | 19 | Total | 38 | 1869 Oct 16th Appointed and qualified Thomas Poston as Director of the above School Oct 16th Employed A. A. Craig as Teacher of School No 6 at $1.75 per day. School to commence Oct 25th 1869 Note: The word “Color” appears above the number “1” in the Male column for Martin H Daily. Page 236 Enumeration for 1869 | School No. 7 Names of Parents or Guardians | Male | Female | Town | Range | | 1 Peter V. Ryker | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 2 William W. McCarty | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | | 3 J. M. Salyers | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 4 Joseph Lochard | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 5 Solomon B. Lochard | 2 | | 5 | 11 | | 6 John H. Matthews | | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 7 W. M. McCoy | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 8 James H. McCoy | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 9 E. F. Crawford | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | | 10 Edward Milligan | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | | 11 Samuel H. Risk | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 12 Jesse Lott | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 13 Samuel Becket | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 14 A. W. Robbins | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 15 Joel C. Bishop | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 16 B. V. Banta | | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 17 W. F. Rabourn | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 18 Moses Hankins | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 19 Samuel Gordon | | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 29 F. M. Gordon | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 21 B. C. Kennedy | | 3 | 5 | 11 | | 22 W. E. Kennedy | | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 23 E. B. Bishop | | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 24 Isabella F. McCoy | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 25 Frederick Armand | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 26 Stephen J. Hearn | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 27 Benjamin Wadsworth | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | | 39 | 35 | 74 | | | W. W. McCarty | 1 | | | | | | 40 | 35 | | | Total 75 Note: Above the number “1” in the Male column appears the word “Color” for W. W. McCarty. Page 237 1869 Nov 13th Employed Philander J. Riley to teach School No. 7 at $1.80 per day to commence N 15th 1869 Dec Appointed and qualified E. Milligan as Director of the above School. Page 238 Enumeration for 1869 | School No. 8 Names of Parents or Guardians | Males | Females | Town | Range | | 1 Levi Thornton | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 2 John Warfield | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | | 3 G. T. Warfield | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | | 4 Henry Land | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 5 James M. Storm | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 6 John Gans | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 7 James C. Benefiel | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 8 Rude D Gordon | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 9 William Glaze | | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 10 James McCarty | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 11 William W. Lee | | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 12 James Land | 3 | 0 | 5 | 11 | | 13 Francis M. Smith | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | | 19 | 14 | | | Total 33 Oct 16th Appointed and qualified G. T. Warfield as Director of the above School Oct 16th Employed Sallie Story as Teacher of School No. 8 at $1.75 per day. School to commence Oct. 18th 69 Page 239 Enumeration for 1869 | School No. 9 Names of Parents or Guardians | Males | Females | Town | Range | | 1 William Spencer | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | | 2 George H. Fry | 7 | 1 | 5 | 12 | | 3 David Stewart | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | | 4 Stephen Ellis | 1 | 1 | 5 | 12 | | 5 Thomas Ellis | 1 | | 5 | 12 | | 6 William Dalgleish from Switzer Co. | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 | | 7 Ann McGregor from Switzer Co. | 1 | | 5 | 12 | | 8 Mary Reed | 1 | 3 | 5 | 12 | | 9 Lucinda Hayes | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | | 10 David Lamb | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 11 James R. Skeen | | 1 | 5 | 12 | | 12 Elijah Matthews | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 | | 13 Levi B. Christie | | 1 | 5 | 12 | | 16 George Harper | 1 | | 5 | 12 | | 15 John Vanosdol | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 16 John Smith | 1 | | 5 | 12 | | | 32 | 21 | | | Total 53 Oct 12th Appointed and qualified William Spencer as Director of School No. 9. Oct 30th Employed A. D. Vanosdol to teach the above School at $1.80 per day to commence Nov 8th 1869 E. P. Niles Trustee S.T. Page 240 Enumeration for 1869 | School No. 10 Names of Parents or Guardians | Males | Females | Town | Range | | 1 Samuel Scott | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11E | | 2 Matthew Ralston | 1 | 1 | 5 | 12E | | 3 David Culbertson | 1 | 1 | 5 | 12E | | 4 Robert Culbertson | | 3 | 5 | 12E | | 5 Robert Glenn | 1 | | 5 | 12E | | 6 Robert Jameson | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12E | | 7 John Glenn | 1 | 1 | 5 | 12E | | 8 James S. Whitton | 1 | | 5 | 11E | | 9 Christopher Whitton | 1 | | 5 | 11E | | 10 Nathan Matthews | | 1 | 5 | 12E | | 11 John Frances Sen | | 1 | 5 | 12E | | 12 John Francis Jun | 1 | 5 | 5 | 12E | | 13 John Griffin | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12E | | 14 John Shaw | 1 | | 5 | 12E | | 15 John F. Pommerhein | | 1 | 5 | 12E | | 16 Walter S. Francis | 1 | | 5 | 12E | | | 14 | 18 | | | Total 32 Oct 18th Employed Harvey Culbertson as Teacher of the above School at $1.50 per day. School to commence Oct 4th 69 Page 241 Enumeration for 1869 | School No. 11 Names of Parents or Guardians | Males | Females | Town | Range | | 1 Napoleon Etherton | 1 | 2 | T5N | R11E | | 2 William Ferguson | 2 | | T5N | R11E | | 3 James Smith | 3 | 1 | T5N | R11E | | 4 John B. Short | 3 | | T5N | R11E | | 5 Henry Jackson | 2 | 1 | T5N | R11E | | 6 William Matthews Sen | 3 | 2 | T5N | R12E | | 7 William Matthews Jun | | 1 | T5N | R11E | | 8 Benjamin F. Whitham | 4 | 1 | T5N | R11E | | 9 Newell Ayres | 1 | | T5N | R11E | | 10 Wesley Boner | 1 | 4 | T5N | R11E | | 11 William Watson | 1 | 1 | T5N | R11E | | 12 Lewis C. Stewart | 1 | 2 | T5N | R11E | | 13 Abram Radcliffe | 1 | 2 | T5N | R11E | | 14 Samuel Jackson | 1 | 1 | T5N | R11E | | 15 John H. Stewart | 4 | 1 | T5N | R11E | | 16 William Rodgers | 2 | 1 | T5NJ | R11E | | 17 Anna Rodgers | 1 | 1 | T5N | R11E | | 18 David Rodgers | | 1 | T5N | R11E | | 19 Henry Lonis | 1 | 1 | T5N | R11E | | | 32 | 23 | | | Total 55 Oct 9th Employed George R. Harper to teach the above School at $1.75 per day. School to commence Oct. 11th 1869 Oct 12th Qualified William Matthews Jr. as Director of School No. 11 reelected on the 1st Sat. In October Page 242 Enumeration for 1869 | School No. 12 Names of Parents or Guardians | Males | Females | Town | Range | | 1 William J. Ryker | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | | 2 David H. Hall | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 3 John Fergeson | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | | 4 Harrison Fergeson | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 5 Christian Hall | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 6 Joseph Hall | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 7 Abner W. Lee | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 | | 8 Achillis R. Lee | 4 | 5 | 5 | 11 | | 9 Mary J. Lee | 2 | | 5 | 11 | | 10 John Huartson | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 11 Eliza Buchanan | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 12 Squire Phillips | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 13 Henry Phillips | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 14 Geo. W Hagan | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 15 David Fergeson | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 16 George Fergeson | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 17 Samuel Beatty | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 18 Peter Breno | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 19 James W. Horton | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 20 Perry Lee | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 21 Henry Brown | | 5 | 5 | 11 | | | 39 | 37 | | | Total 76 Oct 16th Employed Thomas McCoy as teacher of the above School at $1.75 per day. School to commence Oct. 25th 1869 Oct 18th Qualified Killes A. R. Lee as Director of School No 12 elected on the 1st Sat. in October E. P. Niles Trustee S. T. Page 243 Enumeration for 1869 | School No 13 Names of Parents or Guardians | Males | Females | Town | Range | | 1 James Fergeson | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | | 2 Hugh J. Lee | 7 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 3 James W. Phillips | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 4 Francis P. Phillips | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | | 5 Rebecca J. Lee | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 6 Nathaniel Lee | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 7 Jacob Gabert | | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 8 John Altizer | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 9 R. M. Short | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 10 L. M. Stewart | 2 | | 5 | 11 | | 11 Nancy Land | | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 12 Martin Geimon | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 13 Nicholas Lienenweber | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 14 John C Keller | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | 15Mathias Thenis | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | | 16 William Hanke | 1 | | 5 | 11 | | 17 Matthew Smith | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | 18 John Hill | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | | | 31 | 21 | | | Total 52 Oct 12th Employed William Spencer as Teacher of the above School at $1.50 per day. School to commence Nov 1st 1869 Oct 16th Qualified Richard M. Short as Director of School No. 13 elected on the 1st Sat. in Oct. E. P. Niles Trustee S.T. Blank Page 244 Page 245 Recapitulation | | Town | Range | Males | Females | Total | | School No. 1 No of Children in | 5N | 12E | 34 | 29 | 63 | | School No. 2 No of Children in | 5N | 12E | | 1 | 1 | | School No. 2 No of Children in | 5N | 11E | 28 | 34 | 62 | | School No. 3 No of Children in | 5N | 11E | 17 | 19 | 36 | | School No. 4 No of Children in | 5N | 11E | 24 | 13 | 37 | | School No. 5 No of Children in | 5N | 11E | 17 | 19 | 36 | | School No. 6 No of Children in | 5N | 11E | 16 | 19 | 37 | | School No. 7 No of Children in | 5N | 11E | 39 | 35 | 74 | | School No. 8 No of Children in | 5N | 11E | 19 | 14 | 33 | | School No. 9 No of Children in | 5N | 11E | 1 | 2 | 3 | | School No. 9 No of Children in | 5N | 12E | 31 | 19 | 50 | | School No. 10 No of Children in | 5N | 12E | 10 | 17 | 27 | | School No. 10 No of Children in | 5N | 11E | 4 | 1 | 5 | | School No. 11 No of Children in | 5N | 11E | 29 | 21 | 50 | | School No. 11 No of Children in | 5N | 12E | 3 | 2 | 5 | | School No. 12 No of Children in | 5N | 11E | 39 | 37 | 76 | | School No. 13 No of Children in | 5N | 11E | 31 | 21 | 52 | | Total | | | 344 | 303 | 647 | | Total in Range 12 | | | 73 | 68 | 146 | | Total in Range 11 | | | 266 | 235 | 501 | | Total in Township | | | 344 | 303 | 647 | Completed this 31st day of August. 1869 E. 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