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| Birth: | 5 Jul 1869 in Brooks,Iowa,United States |
| Death: | 2 Feb 1963 in Columbus,Franklin,Ohio,United States |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Lewis Gideon Walker b. 30 Mar 1850 in Coshocton,Ohio,United States |
| Mother: | Matilda Cooper b. 11 Apr 1849 in Coshocton,Ohio,United States |
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| 19 Sep 1893 Tiverton,Coshocton,Ohio,United States |
| Burial: 5 Feb 1963 Sunset Cemetery,Galloway,Ohio,United States |
| Changed: 19 Feb 2003 22:41:48 |
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| Ina May Day (Wife) b. 28 Oct 1871 in Iowa,United States
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 Dean Everest Walker Senior b. 18 May 1898 in Killbuck,Holmes,Ohio,United States
- Errett Day Walker b. 13 May 1900 in Killbuck,Holmes,Ohio,United States
- Donald Fenimore Walker b. 2 Aug 1904 in Killbuck,Holmes,Ohio,United States
- Waldo Ruskin Walker b. 16 Jan 1910 in Killbuck,Holmes,Ohio,United States
- Barclay Walker b. 4 Dec 1914 in Killbuck,Holmes,Ohio,United States
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Individual:
From the memoirs of Joseph Walker with help from Waldo:
Wilmer grew up on the Walker family farm at the edge of Tiverton. His father expected Wilmer to perform all the usual chores carried out byfarm boys as well as to attend the one room school nearby. To supplementhis formal education, his mother insisted he read history, Shakespeareand classic Greek literature at home.
In 1888, at the age of 19, he became master of the little red school house near Tiverton. He was the only teacher and taught all grades. Hispay was whatever the parents could afford.
After two years, intendig to become a physician, Wilmer enrolled at Tri-State College near Angola, Indiana. For the next three years hestudied medicine. But in 1893, at the age of 24, he changed his mind anddecided to make his father's avocation his vocation. Wilmer enteredHiram College at Hiram, Ohio to study for the ministry.
In 1895, with his young wife, Wilmer traveled to New York to study at Columbia University. In 1897, at the age of 28, he obtained a Master ofTheology degree.
In 1898, he bought a farm near Killbuck in Holmes County, Ohio just north of Tiverton. All of his children were born on this farm. Wilmer keptownership of thei farm for 62 years until 1960 when he finally sold itbecause all of his sons became citified and did not want to live in thecountry.
For the next seventeen years, between 1898 and 1914, he served several small country churches in and around Coshocton, Ohio. At the same time,like Lewis, Wilmer's livelihood was earned by the buying and selling offarms. Within a fourteen year span he bought and then sold eight farms. Wilmer said, "each time I managed a considerable profit, buying for cashand selling be taking back a mortgage, and then after a year or twoselling the seasoned mortgage at a small discount."
At the age of 46 Wilmer temporarily left the ministry in 1915 to accept a professorship at Bethany College in West Virginia (Bethany College isabout 80 miles due East of Coshocton). He stayed until 1918 when,uncomfortable with the school's growing humanism, he left to start hisown church in Columbus, Ohio. for an initial church building, in 1920,Wilmer bought an old house two blocks from the edge of the Ohio StateUniversity campus. His strategy was to build a church membership fromthe student body. The LORD JESUS blessed his ministry mightily. Withjust three college students as the starting total membership, over theremainder of the decade the Indianola Church of Christ (which stillexists) acquired three entire city blocks upon which was built, for thatday, one of the nation's most modern church plants. Everything,including a sanctuary seating eight hundred persons, and a fully equippedfour story recreation building with numerous meeting rooms as well astwenty classrooms, a huge dining hall and kitchen, and a gymnasium thathad a five hundred person spectator seating capacity, with a stage at oneend making it convertible into an auditorium easily seating a thousandpeople.
By 1929, weekly Sunday School attendance averaged about eight hundred people. Most of the congregation were college students, professionalsand executives with young families. Indianola was a spiritually powerfulchurch and socially and politically influential as well. For 28 yearsWilmer served as its ruling elder until at the age of 79 he resigned in1948.
In 1929, when Wilmer was 59, he and two other eminent Church of Christ clergymen acquired a majority of the capital stock of the StandardPublishing Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. Its customer base wasprincipally Christian Church/Church of Christ churches. Is literaturetherefore, was mostly slanted toward Alexander Campbell's simpleevangelical christianity which was opposed to speculative theology andemotional revivalism. However, at that time, it also was one of thenation's leading contract printers of every kind of church books andliterature. The three clergymen feared this output could eventually bemixed with Church of Christ literature and taint the denomination'sthinking.
In 1935 they sold their stock to a family whose members were Chruch of Christ affiliated, with the proviso Wilmer was to be President andreceive a five thousand dollar annual salary. Because of Wilmer'snational eminence and influence with Church of Christ churches, he washoever more than a mere figurehead. For 25 years he set theologicalpublication policy until his resignation in 1960 at the age of 90. Several years later, Standard Publishing was merged with a largepublishing conglomerate.
Wilmer was not only an astute churchman but also a business man. Over the years, besided real estate, he invested in various mining stocks aswell as oil and gas leases. From time to time, he gave his five sonsfinancial advice and assistance, and used his influence to further theirvarious careers. About five years before his death, Wilmer closed outhis numerous savings accounts and liquidated most of his other assets. He gifted the cash sum of thirty five thousand dollars to each of hissons, which in 1960 was a considerable amount of money. The greaterportion he gave to several Church of Christ affiliated orphanages.
My [Joe Walker] grandfather was born with blue eyes and auburn hair. By the age of 30, hoever, Wilmer's hair was greying and he was almost bald. Wilmer was always frail looking but throughout his life was singularlyfree from ordinary sickness and disease. In fact, until his 93rd year hewas mentally sharp and perfectly capable of traveling and speakingpublicly. He was five feet eight inches in height and weighed less thanone hundred forty pounds. He never used profaity. He did not smoke orchew or drink. He was a active prohibitionist.
Above all else, Wilmer was iron-willed. He sincerely believed he could acomplish any task to which he set his mind. He was widely respected andadmired in both curch and secular circles for his integrity, acumen andwisdom. He wrote hundreds of short articles dealing with church themesthat regularly appeared in the Christian Standard, a national churchnewspaper. In addition, he wrote Sunday School guidebooks which weepublished by Standard Publishing Company. He regularly wrote letterscombining religion and politics to the editors of secular newspapers;these were frequently published. He was a Republican Party organizer andsupported its candidates from the pulpit as well as at political rallies.When the State of Ohio rewrote its constitution, Wilmer was the onlyclergyman to serve on the guidance committee. He was a Scottish RiteFreemason.
Wilmer was especially sought after as a lecturer by both secular and religious groupw. He ordinarily spoke in a pleasant, humorous butdignified manner. However, when speaking of the love of God throughCHRIST JESUS, he sometimes found it difficult to remain unemotional andkeep back tears. He had a way of making many of his theological,political and social points through the use of anecdotal stories. Someof them were hilariously funny; the people in his audience wouldliterally fall out of their seats laughing. But years later they wouldretell those stories to make the same points. He was a self taughtmusician. He played both the trumpet and violin and could read and writemusic. He also could sing and did so well into advanced age. Hispersonal library and study took up all the third floor of his spacioushome. At his death three thousand volumes were donated to MilliganCollege.
Like his father, Lewis, Wilmer never borrowed money nor mortgaged his property. He paid cash for everything. Throughout most of his adulthoodhe bought a new automobile each year. For him it was a tool necessary tohis vocation. As he became more and more affluent, he bought bigger andmore expensive automobiles. Toward the end of his life, he boughtnothing every year but the most luxurious Oldsmobiles. He had aclergyman-like wardrobe; all black suits- but an extensive number- whichwere tailor-made from the finest materials. He wore hand made whitelinen shirts with French cuffs and stiff starched, high collars and silkties with a large diamond stick pin.
Wilmer's normal daily routine was to be up at 5 am and into his study preparing notes for sermons and lectures as well as general reading,study and answering correspondence. He was proficient with a typewriterand did all his own secretarial work. About 8:30 am he would go out tovisit shut-ins and the sick both in homes and hospitals. At noon he camehome for lunch which was light meal. Whenever possible after lunch, formost of his adult life, he took a short nap. Then he was off to thechurch to meet with staff and people who came to see him there.
Dinner time was the main meal of the day. The family was expected to be there and dinner guests were common place. The usual conversation wasabout religion, politics and business. No gossip about church or familymembers was permitted. After dinner, Wilmer once again went out onvisitation or, if he had no speaking engagement, he went back to thechurch to look in on all the activities that went on every evening sevendays a week. Usually he was home in bed by 11 pm.
From 1948 at the age of 80 until his death in 1964 at age 93 like his father Lewis, Wilmer annually traveled all over the nation to speak at adozen or so church events. He had hundreds of acquaintances and unusualname recall ability. Even at an advanced age, he could frequently byname greet people he haad not seen for many years. Privately, he was asolitary but perfectly happy person who over the years did not cultivateany truly close personal relationships. The only exception was his wife.An yet throughout the course of his life, he introduced thousands ofpeople to God's righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. At hisdeath, hundreds of people from all over the world and every walk of lifetelegraphed, telephoned and wrote to express their grief and sense ofpersonal loss.
Wilmer married Elias Edwin "E.E." Day's daughter, Ina May, in the home of the bride's parents on September 19, 1893. Lewis performed the marriageceremony. That same afternoon they traveled to Hiram College.
At the age of 85, Ina died in Columbus, Ohio on January 23, 1956. Wilmer and Ina had been married for 63 years. Wilmer lived another seven yearsand often remarked how much he missed Ina May.
At the age of 94 Wilmer died in Columbus on February 2, 1963. They are buried together just outside of Columbus at Galloway, Ohio in the SunsetCemetery.
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this article was found in the Cooper family Bible.
Walker Family Boasts Three Generations in Ohio Ministry
Like father, like son, and even grandson, runs in the Walker family in which Rev. W. R. Walker, pastor of Indianola Church of Christ, is thesecond generation.
Rev. Mr. Walker's father, Rev. L. G. Walker, is pastor of the Christian Church at Centerburg, and Rev. W. R. Walker's son, Dean, wasordained in December, 1924.
Rev. W. R. Walker, who is celebrating his thirtiethe year in the ministry this year, was born in Brooks, Ia., but later his parents movedto Coshocton County, Ohio. He received his education at Ohio NorthernUniversity, Ada,;Thr-State College , Angola, Ind.; Hiram College andColumbia University.
His first pastorate was at Killbuck where he remained 12 years, resigning to become instructor at Phillips Bible Institute, Canton wherehe remained three years. He then occupied the chair of New TestamentHistory and Homiletics at Bethany College, W. Va., for several years,preaching also at Bethesda.
Five and a half years ago, Rev. Mr. Walker received a call from Indianola Church, without having had a trial. After three years with thechurch, he was accorded a life call, and as far as is known, he is thefirst pastor to receive such an award.
During his pastorate the membership has increased from about 200 to more than 700. The new church was completed in 1924, housing one of thebest pipe organs in Columbus.
Rev. Mr. Walker's congregations recently presented him with an automobile. His father, Rev. L. G. Walker, will visit him tomorrow.
This was from a Christian Standard.
According to the information on descendants of Moses Barnes, Ralph Walker remarried a Bessie Leader, she was born in 1894. As this information waspublished in the late 1950's there is no death date.
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ARTICLE:
THE REVEREND DR WILMER R WALKER, 93, PASTOR EMERITUS OF THE INDIANOLA
CHURCH OF CHRIST, AND ONE-TIME CHAPLAIN OF THE OHIO HOUSE OF REPRESNTATIVES,
DIES
Publication: Columbus Dispatch
Date: 02/03/1963 Page: 4 A
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OBITUARY:
Publication: Columbus Dispatch
Date: 02/03/1963 Page: 4 A
SUBJECT(s):WALKER, WILMER R (REV)
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Wilmer R. Walker
Long-Time Pastor Here Dead at 93
The Rev. Dr. Wilmer R. Walker, 93, pastor emiritus of the Indianaola Church of Christ, and one-time chaplain of the Ohio House ofRepresentatives, died Saturday at the Hy-Manor nursing home. He lived at189 Westwood Rd.
Dr. Walker, who once claimed his only hobby was work, was pastor at the Dr. Walker church, 2141 Indianola Ave., for 28 years. He retired in 1948.
Dr. Walker was a member of the fourth Ohio constitutional convention in 1912 and was chosen chaplain of the House of the 88th General Assembly.
A GRADUATE of Hiram College, he was former vice president and president of the Standard Publishing Co., Cincinnati.
In recent years, he had been an editorial counselor to the company, one of the largest religious publishing houses in the country.
Dr. Walker also attended Ohio Northern University, Tri-State College at Angola, Ind., and Columbia University. He was awarded the honorary degreeof doctor of divinity by the Cincinnati Bible Institute.
DR. WALKER taught at the Phillips Bible Institute, Canton, from 1913 until it was disbanded in 1917. He also taught at Bethany College,Bethany, W. Va.
He was a fifty-year member of both Lodge No. 199 of Masons, Bladensburg; and Columbus Commandry No. 69, Knights Templar.
SURVIVING are five sons, Dean E. Walker, president of Milligan College, Milligan, Tenn.; Errett, of Columbus; Donald F., of Appollo Bearch, Fla.;Waldo R. of Richmond, Ind. and Barclay of Miami, Fls.; 10 grandchildren;21 great - grandchildren; brothers, Lake L. Walker and Ralph Walker, bothof Akron.
Funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Rutherford funeral home. Burial will be in Sunset cemetery.
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COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO
Tiverton Center School
District #3 Tiverton Township
Became Tiverton Special School District 1909
January 4, 1834 John and Elizabeth Holt, James and Elizabeth Draper, Henry and Mary Miller and James and Ann Conner conveyed land for aschoolhouse and meeting house described as the northeast corner of theSE1/4 Section 13, Township 7, Range 9 (7-501).
There was certainly a school in a log schoolhouse operating by 1839 when the enumeration was reported as 39.
Teachers by school years with pay
1856 W.R. Kinsey $66
Lewis Powelson $27
1857 Lewis Powelson $27
A.J. Hyatt $60
1858 Abraham J. Cummings $91 was also postmaster at Yankee Ridge 1858.
1859 Minerva Harrison $31
Abraham J. Cummings $58
1860 R.W. Leggett $59
J.W. Winslow $45
By 1858 there was need for a new schoolhouse at Tiverton Center. At the April 19, 1858 School Board meeting a motion to erect a new schoolhousein District #3 with the privilege of levying a sufficient amount tocomplete the building the next spring, was carried. At their nextmeeting, May 21, 1858 the contract for building the schoolhouse inDistrict #3 was rejected, and a tax levied for the building withdrawn. Atthe April 1860 meeting, the motion to build a new schoolhouse in thisDistrict again failed. But by April 15, 1861 the Board voted to proceedto erect a new schoolhouse 26 x 24, and a committee of Isaac Beam, R.D.Barr and George Stringfellow was appointed to build the schoolhouse. Atotal of $325 was levied in the District and Township for building thenew schoolhouse.
1861 W.B. Barton $27
D.R. Campbell $45 died in Iowa 1868
1862 Annie O. White (Wolfe) $54
Delilah E. Brillhart (McCoy) $30
1863 Sarah E. Church (Buchanan) 1838-1915
R.W. Leggett $74
1864 D.R. Campbell $70
Rosella Winslow (Sapp) $52
Directors of Tiverton Center School 1853-92, many of whom served several terms:
William Winslow
John E. Hays
Zachariah Hays
George Stringfellow
Amos Tarrh
Samuel B. Stringfelow
John Philip Stillinger
Simon Tarrh
L.C. Langford
J.W. Holt
Jasper Smith
Abraham Conner
J.W. Neville
E.E. Day
Solomon Robinson
L.G. Walker
H.W. Winslow
R.D. Barr
Isaac Underhill
J.J. Gamertsfelder
W.E. McFarland
John Lower
J.I. Purdy
J.P. Fry
1865 D.R. Campbell $70
1866 s Sarah A. Borden $45
w J.J. Kinsey $79
1867 Matthew Waters
w Sarah A. Borden
1868 s Jennie Weeks 1850-
w Jane Weeks
1869 s Sarah E. Buchanan
w Rosella Winslow (Sapp)
1869: James Conner to furnish the lumber and build a fence around schoolhouse for $20.
1870 s Louisa B. Borden
w Sarah E. Buchanan
1871 Joseph Ferenbaugh
1872 s Louisa B. Borden
w John Wagner 1834-1919
summer: Belle Simpson
1873 s Mollie A. Swigert
w John A. Lonsinger 1847-1918
1874 Sarah E. Buchanan
1875 s Lucy McKee
w George W. Ganmble died 1892
The School Board at its meeting, January 17, 1876 granted privilege of schoolhouse in District #3 for any religious exercises, Sabbath School,etc. so long as said house is taken care of. Directs directors to havethe school house open every Sabbath during the present summer.
1876 s Theresa Drummond (Underhill)
w Levi Gamble 1838-1890
1877 s Sarah Day
w Joshua Ferenbaugh
1878 J.I. Purdy, both terms 1851-1935
1879 s Sarah Day
w James I. Purdy
1880 s Theresa Drummond (Underhill)
w George W. Mohler
1881 Stuart Bailey - Enumeration: 58 youth
1882 s George W. Mohler
w Joseph B. Severns 1856-1935
1883 s Daniel Speck 1859-1930
1884 s Ida F. Winslow (Severns)
w Grant Wheeler 1864-1935
1885 s Della Nichols (Little)
w W.S. Pigman 1860-1936
1887 s Matilda Weeks (Mrs.) d. 1926
w James L. Meredith d. 1898
from the Democratic Standard March 18, 1887: "About 12 citizens of the Township presented a petition praying for the erection of a buildingsuitable for a Select School house at Tiverton Center. The Board tookthe matter under consideration, and decided adversely to the project by avote of 6 to 1."
1888 s Emma Weeks dau. of Mrs. Matilda Weeks
w J.W. Cole
1889 Wilmer R. Walker (Rev.) 1869-1956
1890 s Ollie Hughes (Wheeler)
from the Democratic Standard, May 2, 1890: "The Board of Education of Tiverton Township by a vote of 8 to 1 will build a new schoolhouse inDistrict #3. The citizens of the Township will raise money by donation ifpossible, for a second story to be used as a Select School. We wish thecitizens success."
At the April 21, 1889 meeting of the School Board when they voted to build a new Tiverton Center schoolhouse, a committee on specificationswas appointed consisting of Amos Tarrh, J.A. Lonsinger and J.F. Smith.The Board granted citizens of the Township the privilege of putting asecond story on the schoolhouse. At the April 1890 meeting thespeifications were accepted and it was determined to ask for sealed bids.A motion to put a belfry on the schoolhouse carried, limiting the cost ofthe bell to $10. The bid of Amos Tarrh was accepted with theunderstanding that it would be finished before December 1, 1890. Fashionseats were to be used in the new schoolhouse.
At the June 6, 1890 meeting of the School Board, a new site for the Tiverton Center School was determined - "on the Spring Mountain roadeast, or on the Walhonding road south of Tiverton Center." At their nextmeeting, July 28, 1890 a motion to reconsider the site, lost, but amotion to change the shape of the site carried.
April 20, 1891 the School Board leased the site for the new Tiverton Center School from William and Thomas Winslow - one acre out of thenortheast corner of section 13, Tiverton Township, for as long as usedfor school purposes.
May 23, 1891 the Building Committee reported that Amos W. Tarrh had completed the new schoolhouse according to specifications, and the SchoolBoard then officially accepted the building. The following payments weremade for the new schoolhouse: 1891 - W.H. Winslow for site $200; SamuelBorden for fence $49.50; Amos Tarrh - building $270; Bell $10; Desks$48.90; Anatomical Aid $37.50
At their meeting August 31, 1891 the following texts for use in the Tiverton Township schools were selected by the School Board:
McGuffey Revised Eclectic Reader - and also Speller
Harvey's Revised English Grammar
Ray's Arithmetic Ellsworth System of Penmanship
Barnes. History Ohio Copy Book
Eclectice Geography Hutchinson's Physiology
E.E. Day (the storekeeper) was to be contracted with to furnish the texts for sale.
1890 w S.H. Richard - Enumeration 60
1891 s J.W. Cole
w William H. Thompson
1892 s Wilmer R. Walker
w B.F. Barnes
1894 s Laura Sapp (Stover)
1895 s Clarence E. Day 1874-1965 - was Postmaster at Tiverton 1905.
In 1908, 4 weeks after he bought the general store there, it burned.
w Anna Almack
from the Democratic Standard, July 24, 1896: "The grand masquerade and ice cream festival on the new school house grounds last Saturday eveningat Tiverton, came off according to program and proved a grand success."
1897 Sylvia Almack 1876-1952 New stove caps purchased.
1898 Byron Meredith - was graduated Warsaw High School 1898
1899 & 1900 Robert L. Boyd, 1872-1961. Later he was in the U.S. Postal Service where he served until retirement. New stove and stove pipe forSchool costing $15.95.
Beginning 1901 Tiverton Center School was no longer a one-room school, so only its general history will be given.
from the Democratic Standard, April 9, 1904: "Notice of Hearing of application for special school district in Tiverton Township, CoshoctonCounty, Ohio. Notice is hereby given that on the 21st day of March 1904,John E. Gays, (died 1933) and others filed in the Probate Court theirpetition alleging a refusal of the Board of Education of TivertonTownship to establish a special school district in said Township andpraying for the establishment of a special school district. T.S.Sharpless, William Graham and R.A. McClure have been appointedcommissioners to hear said petition, said commissioners to meet inschoolhouse in District #3, 4th May 1904 at 4 o'clock. Russell L. Donley,Judge."
July 4, 1904: "The voters of the special school district organized in Tiverton Township recently, assembled and elected J.J. Gamertsfelder aschairman and Charles McDonald as Secretary. The object of the meeting wasto make final arrangements for the election of the five directors to beheld at Tiverton July 11th. Everything that can be done toward making thespecial school district a success is being pushed. Every voter isearnestly desired to attend on that day - July 11th - as they can helpthe matter along."
Thus C.B. Hunt, attorney for the petitioners, was successful in securing a Special School District rating for Tiverton against James Glenn,attorney representing the Board of Education, who was opposing it.
from the Coshocton County Auditior's Report to the State Commissioner of Education 1906: "There are only two Greek Scholars, two students inPolitical Economy and one in Natural History, all these in a cetainschool in Tiverton Township - Township that is even without a highschool."
When the Special School District of Tiverton was created, it was challenged as demanding taxes from too large a teritory. October 12, 1909the case was settled by giving the Tiverton Special School District 850acres instead of 1400 as asked, from which to draw revenues. H.H.Hagelbarger, Goerge Proper, A.H. Chaney and Abraham Simmons were on theSchool Board at this time.
In 1919 a new schoolhouse ws built at Tiverton on the same site as the old one. School was opened late so that the building could be finishedand the year began in the new building. For the grades 1919 through 1929three teachers were employed and after 1929 there were usually fourteachers, each teaching two grades.
Dutch Run School pupils were sent to Tiverton School in the fall of 1920. In the fall of 1932 the Hunter and Wolf Creek Schools were closed andthese children were sent to Tiverton to School. Horse Shoe Bend Schooland Chestnut Ridge School were closed in the fall of 1933 and theirpupils sent to Tiverton Center to school.
In August 1932, the Dutch Run Schoolhouse was moved to Tiverton Center and in August 1933 the Horse Shoe Bend Schoolhouse was also moved there.
In 1946 the higher grades of Tiverton's School were transferred to Nellie and pupils sent there by bus. The School was reduced to two teachers. In1953 this School again became a one-room school, the last one inCoshocton County. Mrs. Rebecca Williams Horn taught the first four gradesuntil January 1959 when these pupils were also sent to the Nellie Schoolby bus and the Tiverton Center School finally abandoned.
Tiverton High School
The first Tiverton High School was established in 1902 in the two-story schoolhouse with the outside stairway to the second floor on the outsideof the building. The grade shcool pupils used the first floor, enteringfrom the front door and the high school pupils used the second floor,entering from the outside stairway on the rear of the schoolhouse. Thiswas a 3d grade, two-year high school and lasted only about eight years,being abandoned in 1910.
Its first Commencement was held April 21, 1909 in the Tiverton Methodist Church. The two graduates were Noble Hagelbarger 1889-1965 and BurgessSmith 1890-1934, both of whom taught in the county in later years.
Tiverton High School closed in April 1906 when Mansfield Almack gave a reception for the high school at the home of John E. Hays.
The 1910 graduates were Elvin and Agnes Gamertsfelder, Irvin Stillinger, Clara Cooper, Esther Rahn, Laura Brown, Florence Richards and MarieCarter.
In 1919 when the new four-room schoolhouse was erected, the Tiverton High School was again started, a 3d grade 2-year high school.
The first Commencement of the re-established high school was held at the Grange Hall, May 8, 1920 Tiverton Center and the graduates were: NellieM. Shoder, Floyd T. Workman, Ina E. Bumpus, Jesse E. Tarrh and MerwynGaumer.
The last Tiverton High School Commencement in 1939 had six graduates: Arthur Bumpus, Lucille Conner, Patricia Gamertsfelder, Harley Rhodes,John Sheldon and Junior Spurgeon.
The Tiverton High School was abandoned in the summer of 1939 and its pupils sent to the Warsaw High School in the fall. The Tiverton HighSchool with the Walhonding High School, were the two last of the 3d grade2-years high schools in the County and among the last in the State.
Teachers at Tiverton Center Schools
Grover Speckman
Mansfield J. Almack
Charles R. Kimberley
Burgess Smith
R.R. Cross
J.R. Sherry
W.H. Parks
John Proper
Elmer Hoberg
PF. Coggins
Lloyd P. Williamson
W.R. Root
Carl Brumme
Celia Lonsinger
Edward Whitemore
Ethel Holt
Julia Ruth Butler
Wilson Van Voorhis
Michael Smithhisler
E.A. Shonk
Duna Moore
Carl Smith
E.A. Robinson
Beatrice Hosler
Charlotte Marshall
Mabel Stout
P.S. Fellers
Daniel Gorey
Thelma Spurgeon
Alred Hagelbarger
Wilhelmina Cummings
Lucy Lonsinger
Nellie Moore
Carrie Winslow
Ada Greenbaugh
Hazel Gamertsfelder
Ethel Gamertsfelder
Elva Boyd
Mary Axline
Elva Boyd
Gladys Koop
Emma Smucker
Minna Rahn
Pauline Lonsinger Hoberg
Lucy Stillinger
Lena Lyons
Ina Bumpus
Helen Stover
Ora Darr
Mildred Ekey
Anna Reiss
Audrey Addy
Orpha Garrison
Louise McNabb
Letha Heffelfinger
Harold Hutchinson
Grace Harmon
Paul Dean
Jean Klein
Ida Drake
Eileen Hooker
Carl McKee
Mary E. Lyons
Virginia B. Hill
Lillie Shyte
John Shuy
Fern Wolfe
Ruby Sproull
Gerald Parsons
Dale Cahill
Rebecca Horn
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1910 Census
Wilmer Walker
Age: 40 State: OH
Color: W Enumeration District: 0035
Birth Place: Ohio Visit: 0026
County: Holmes
Relation: Head of Household
Other Residents: Relation Name Color Age Birth Place
Wife Ina 38 Iowa
Son Dean 11 Ohio
Son Enett 09 Ohio
Son Waldo 05 Ohio
Son Donald NR Ohio
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Wilmer R. WALKER
Male
Other Information:
Birth Year <1870>
Birthplace IA
Age 10
Occupation At School
Marital Status S
Race W
Head of Household Lewis G. WALKER
Relation Son
Father's Birthplace OH
Mother's Birthplace OH
Source Information:
1880 Census Place Tiverton, Coshocton, Ohio
Family History Library Film 1255003
NA Film Number T9-1003
Page Number 220D
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Walker, Wilmer R
Age: 60 Year: 1930
Birthplace: Iowa Roll: T626_1802
Race: White Page: 17B
State: Ohio ED: 169
County: Franklin Image: 0471
Township: Columbus
Relationship: Head
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