School House - North of Howard

[Devyn-Leann]

Took these pictures today as I was driving home...I live not even a half mile from this schoolhouse. Is it Paw Paw?


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[Wilma]

I haven't looked at the pictures but I am thinking that the schoolhouse is south of you, on the west side of the road and that wouldn't be Paw Paw.  Paw Paw was north of  Rock Road

[frawin]

Devyn, I'm not sure where you live.  That picture is definately not Upper Paw Paw.  Donnie Marrs bought that school house a few years ago, and committees have worked and helped him fix it up.  They still use it for different things from time to time.  It is on the east side of the road about 1 1/2 miles north of Dan and Joetta.  Do you life on Glenn and Margaret Miller's place?  Is this school house north of you on the west side of the road (what was known years ago as the Paw Paw Road?  If so, is it south of Dan and Joetta's and Maybe west and a little south of Ted and Janet Miller's?  If so, that could be Lower Paw Paw.  Last I knew, the Crigers had purchased it when they owned the land south of Lower Paw Paw and was using it to store hay.
They don't own that land anymore.  I think Jim Wiseman lives on part of what used to be Crigers.

Myrna

[Marcia Moore]

     Devyn-Leann, your picture is of the Lower Paw Paw School - District #6.  At times the school was referred to as Clum School.  The building and the land it is situated on has been owned by Vic Scholfield of Wichita for nearly twenty years.
     On Sept. 18, 1880, a deed was signed by Aaron and Kate McKey Clum, granting Lower Paw Paw School District #6 one acre of land, commencing at the SE corner of Sect. 3, Twp. 29, Range10; thence north ten rods; thence west sixteen rods; thence south ten rods; thence east sixteen rods to the place of beginning.   
     The Lower Paw Paw School District was officially disorganized on June 1, 1951 and was officially consolidated with Howard School District #5, though some of the Lower Paw Paw students began attending school at the Upper Paw Paw schoolhouse instead.
     Myrna, weren't the Clums relatives of yours?

[Wilma]

Good ole Marcia, I knew she would have the facts.

[frawin]

Marcia, I am not connected to the Clum's personally, although I knew several of the family members.  My sister, Mary husband's mother was a Clum.  Dan Miller's mother was also a Clum.

Myrna

[Devyn-Leann]

Thank you! I wasn't sure which one it was. Vic Scholfield owns the property that it is on. It is on the west side of the road and just south of my house. I live about a half mile south of Rock Road.

[frawin]

So, you live close to Ted and Janet?

[Marcia Moore]

Myrna, Yes, I realized this morning that your sister, Mary, said it was her husband who was a direct descendant of the Clums, rather than her side of the family.

[Devyn-Leann]

Yes I live maybe a mile north of them.