Prosperity School - District No. 30 - West Plains Township
District 30 was organized August 21, 1886, and wasn't disorganized until 1946, when it became a part of Jt.74 and eventually part of Dist. 483 (Meade-Seward) in 1965.
Our notes show that Prosperity started out in a sod house, but soon a nice big schoolhouse was built on the SW/4 of the NW/4 of Section 9, T32-R24.
According to the Meade Globe News, when the district was disorganized in 1946, the building was purchased by the Plains School Board to be moved to Plains for rental to a teacher's family. We do not know if this happened or where the house was located in Plains.
Teachers of Crooked Creek School
Wysong, D. P. - 1891 - 1893
Peterson, Susie - 1893 - 1894
Graves, Tillie - 1895 - 1896
LaRue, Etta - 1904 - 1905
Walter, Nettie - 1905 - 1906
Geisinger, Laura - 1911 - 1912
Lawson, J.S. - 1913 - 1914
Cragg, Raydie - 1914 - 1915
Kinison, Eliza - 1914 - 1915
Bradley, Verdy - 1915 - 1916
Weaver, Raydie - 1915 - 1916
Murphy, Esther - 1916 - 1917
Plumb, Esther A. - 1917 - 1918
Wilson, Beatrice - 1918 - 1919
Ross, Neva M. - 1919 - 1920
Graves, Ferne - 1920 - 1921
Thornsbury, Gertrude - 1921 - 1922
Reynolds, Bernice - 1922 - 1923
Hayden, Edna - 1923 - 1924
Martins, Bernard - 1923 - 1924
Berghaus, Abbie - 1924 - 1925
Nickel, Esther - 1924 - 1927
Bromwell, Besse - 1927 - 1928
Demmitt, Avis - 1928 - 1934
York, Ellen - 1931 - 1932
Welk, E Justina - 1934 - 1939
Innis, Joanna - 1940 - 1941
Weaver, Raydie - 1941 - 1946
Surnames of students at Prosperity school:
Anderson, Bergen, Berghaus, Black, Bromwell, Burnett, Cullers, Dalgran, Demmitt, Downing, Gates, Golliher, Hale, Hall, Henderson, Herring, Hickey, Hinman, Hockett, Huckleberry, Kerns, LaRue, Lewis, Odgers, Odell, Ramsey, Richardson, Roberts, Shelman, Strohl, Vincent, Welk, and Wilson. Our records start in 1916... some of the earlier names could have been Boyer, Frame, Kenny, Peterson, Stringer, Summers, and Wyatt.
