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Alexander Co IL 

Cairo is the county seat.

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Education

 
Education in Alexander Co IL  

Cache, Cairo, Clank, Diswood, East Cape Girardeau, Elco, Fayville, Future City, Gale, Golden Lily, Hodges Park, Klondike, McClure, Miller City, Olive Branch, Roth, Sandusky, Tamms, Tankville, Tatumville, Thebes, Unity, Urbandale, Willard.


1850 Teacher's Town
Clinton Davis Cairo
Elija B. Diltz Sr.  
William McMillan  
William L. Jones  
James Carrigan  
Nathan Weaver  

1850: There were 604 school age children in Alexander County but the record shows on 106 were students.

1860 Teacher's Town
Elizabeth Ellington Cairo
Maggie Johnson Cairo
Addison Dent Cairo
Ellen Mullholand Cairo
H. K. Milton Thebes
James Luney Goose Island
Mary E. Brown Dog Tooth
Emma Miller Santa Fe
Louis McDaniel Unity
Robert Simpson Clear Creek
William Inman Hazelwood

1860 was the first census year to record female teachers. There were 1302 school age children in Alexander County in 1860


Sixty-second Commencement of the Cairo High School

Thursday, May 26, 1938, Eight o'clock

High School Auditorium Clendenen Building  

Class Roll  

Kathryn Vincent, Valedictorian

Dorothy Wilbourn, Salutatorian  

01. Aydt, Martha

02. Baker, John

03. Bass, Georgia

04. Becker, Mary Frances

05. Bever, Evelyn

06. Billingsley, Cecil

07. Bloss, Mary Alice

08. Brown, Riley

09. Brunner, Martha

10. Butler, Flo Ella

11. Butts, Raymond

12. Childers, Helen L.

13. Combs, Lavain

14. Comer, Annie

15. Cooper, Geraldine

16. Curtsinger, Lillian

17. DeHaven, Sam

18. Dever, John

19. Dishinger, Fred

20. Eaker, Harriet

21. East Owen

22. Evans, George

23. Finch, Jean

24. Foster, Thelma Rose

25. Fox, Robbie

26. Fromm, Fred

27. Goins, Ruth

28. Goodman, Eugenia

29. Green, Robert

30. Groves, Evelyn

31. Hatcher, Joyce

32. Hawes, Mary

33. Hawf, Ilean

34. Haynes, Stuart

35. Hedger, Lyane

36. Hinkle, Earline

37. Hinkle, Lounell

38. Hipps, James

39. Hogan, Thomas

40. Hogg, Margaret

41. Honey, Edward

42. Horton, William

43. Horton, Wilma

44. Joe, Ellis

45. Johnson, Julian

46. Johnston, Bill

47. Jones, James

48. Kobler, Dorothy

49. Koehler, Charles

50. Lotz, Gerald

51. McGee, Johnny

52. McWherter, Jean

53. Magee, Paul

54. Martin, Davis

55. Mason, June

56. Miller, Eleanor

57. Nasser, Joseph

58. Nolte, Albert

59. Nye, Barbara Jean

60. Parrott, Harvey

61. Perkins, Billy

62. Phillips, Frances

63. Raines, Lloyd

64. Ransom, Margaret

65. Rust, Gilbert

66. Simpson, Rena

67. Skinner, Uva

68. Smith, Geraldine

69. Smith, Margie

70. Spiceland, Laura R.

71. Steinhouse, LeRoy

72. Stokeley, Martha J.

73. Stone, Anne

74. Stone, Dorothy

75. Street, James

76. Sullivan, Betty J.

77. Swoboda, Gilbert

78. Tucker, Elyvon

79. Tucker, Helen

80.Vincent, Kathryn

81. Voght, George

82. Whitaker, Gertrude

83. Wilbourn, Dorothy

84. Will, Ernest Jean

85. Wolferding, Floid

86. Woodard, Teddy  

Faculty Leo C. Schultz, Principal, Fred. S. Atchison, Anna Mae Bowser, Mary Chamberlain, Mary K. Dewey, Nelletta Ehlman, Grace Elliott, Mary Fitts, Laurel Harris, Howard L. Jone,s Edward H. Kitze, Josephine Mitchell, Ruth Porter, Margaret Rus,t B. Franz Schubert, Bernadine Sullivan  

Board of Education Harry E. Emerson, Presiden,t Walter B. Warder, Secretary ,Mrs. Nora W. Thomason, Mrs. A. A. Seibert, Dr. B. S. Hutcheson , Albert Lee, S. E. Marshall, Dave Ringol, Edgar Stephens , A. T. Madra.

Provided by Clara Jacobson


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