BETHEL GROVE, 1909

This picture is located in the scrapbooks compiled by the late Oscar D. Lewis.
These books, which contain many interesting articles about this area, are in
the local history and genealogy room of the Florence Lauderdale Public Library.

...It was a big day, 60 years ago, at Bethel Grove School when this group posed for the
official school portrait. The group includes, First row, seated on ground, left to right:
Grover Wiles, Tom Fox, Everett Hendrix, Elmer Hendrix, Doyle Livingston, Bill May,
Luther Smith, and teacher, Mrs. Eulala Bradley, Second row, from left: Bessie Keeton
Bessie Givens, Annie Mae Hendrix Swank, Mamie Smith Koonce, Mittie Bourland
Mitchell, Chapel May Robertson, Mary Sue Livingston Smith, Bessie Givens; Third row,
from left: Silas Bradley, Mrs. Betty Bradley, Herbert Bradley, Edward Bradley, Lonnie
Smith,  Yuel Givens, Walter Young, unidentified, Everett Young, Tom May, Fourth row,
from left: Unidentified Person Fox, Marvin Wilkes, Lessie Keeton, Virgle Hendrix. Our
thanks to Mrs. Luther Smith, 229 Georgia Avenue, for this Scrapbook Feature.

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