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Cheswold School

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Cheswold School, late 1800's?
When and who are a complete mystery to us

Cheswold School about 1916

Front, 2nd from left, seated, Charlie Wilson (1908-1923) (brother of Grace Wilson Davis)

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Cheswold School about 1931 (Below)

Photo from both Ida Carter Webster & Allen Reed
Middle 2nd row from front + = Buck Reed
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Mary Virginia Johnson Morgan says:
# 56 is Raymond L. Morgan..... and # 29 is Mary Virginia Johnson

Mrs. Mary E. Mosley Dunning Class - Upper Grades (Below)

1944 Cheswold School

Far left: teacher Dorothy Durham Carney (1913-1988)
Far right: teacher Mrs. Mary Mosley Dunning Draine (1910-1978)

Mae Wilson Collins says: 3rd from right, front standing, looks like Mildred Mosley who married Pres Durham;

Pinky Coker says: "it looks like my Mom's nieces and nephews& sister are in this pic.
They are younger then Aunt Ethel Sammons (who was born in 1908). (Mae thought that the
2nd person from the left, back row, was Ethel Sammons who married Robert James Carney Jr. )

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Mrs. Mary E. Mosley Dunning Class - 1st to 4th grades (Below)

1944 Cheswold School

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From Lisa Coker Hurd, 18 Oct 2000:

"Front row kneeling L to R: 1) Elmer Durham 2) Perky Ridgeaway? 3)? 4) Leroy Carney 5) Gene Coker

2nd row: 1) Donald Coker 2) Greeny Ridgeway 3) Ginger? 4) Joan Johnson 5) Sandra Johnson?
6)Sadie Ridgeway? 7)Fran Carney 8) Dotty Mosley 9) ? Carney.

3rd row: 1) Connie Johnson 2) Jazzy Durham 3) ? 4) Jackie Coker 5) Winnie Seeney 6)Ann Carney 7) ? 8)?

4th row: 1) Carl Coker 2)Woodie Johnson 3) Leroy Coker 4) ? 5) Lenard Grisgby 6) ? 7) Gloria Carney.

From Rose Ridgeway 20 Oct 2000

...Ms. Dunning's class: My husband Raymond Ridgeway, Jr., was in this class. He has named all of them for me except for the girl between his sister Sadie and Gloria Carney. He thinks she is either Maude Mae Carter or one of the other Saunder girl's sister. This was Mrs. Mary E. Mosley, Dunning.

Kneeling L to R: Elmer Durham, Herman Saunders, Robert King, Donald Carney, Gene Coker

2nd row Standing: Donald Coker, Raymond Ridgeway, Jr., Sarah Virginia Ridgeway (my husband's sister), Joan Johnson, Joyce Saunders, Pauline Saunders (sisters to Herman Saunders), Loretta Carney, Dorothy Mosley, Stanley Johnson.

3rd Row: Constance Johnson, Ronald Durham, Robert "Bobby" Sammons, Jackie Coker, Winfred "Winnie" Sammons, Ann Carney, Purcell Durham, Presley "Babe" Ridgway.

Top Row: Carlee Coker, Linwood "Woody" Johnson, Leroy Coker, Mae Carney, Leonard Alphonzo Grisbey, Sadie Mae Ridgeway (my husband's sister), Maude Mae Carter or ? Saunders, Gloria Carney.

From Nanticoke-Lenape PowWow yearbook, 1996, p. 65:

Back row: Carlee Coker, Linwood Johnson, Leroy Coker, Mae Carney, Leonard Alphonzo Grisbey,
Sadie Mae Ridgeway Carney, Deletha Saunders Mosley, Gloria Carney Attix.

2nd row from back: Connie Sammons Johnson, Ronald Durham, Robert "Bobbie" Sammons, Jackie Coker,
Winfred Sammons Ridgway Seeney, Ann Carney Seeney, Purcell Durham, Presley "Babe" Ridgway

3rd row: Donald Coker, Raymond Ridgeway Jr., Sarah Virginia Ridgeway Durham, Joan Johnson,
Joyce Saunders, Pauline Saunders, Loretta Carney Draine, Dorothy Mosley, Stanley Johnson.

Front row: Elmer Durham, Herman Saunders, Robert King, Donald Carney, Eugene Coker

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A Cheswold School, before 1924

Regarding the photo above, Cara Blume says:

This is certainly a pre-1920's school, but I suspect that it must be the "white" school. The background indicates that it is in town, and I doubt that there would be a postcard of a "colored" school. There were two Moor schools in the Cheswold area before the P. S. du Pont reforms of the 1920's (designated 143a and 143b). One was a one-room school south of Rt. 42 across the road (is that McKee's Road?) from the railroad tracks and not far from the location of the later du Pont Moor school. It has been incorporated into a small dwelling, and is visible only as a different roofline. The other school, located west of Cheswold on the north side of Rt. 42, was a two-story building which later became the home of Clem Carney, at least as I understand it.

"Cheswold Colored School, 1941"

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