Haywood  County Schools

 

 

Wellwood School ca. 1920

Near Jones  or Jones Station

 

WELLWOOD: founded in late 1700's and early 1800's on the stage coach line from Jackson to Brownsville and Bells, and at one time was larger than any of the three. Businesses at its peak included a hotel and theater, post office, livery stable, blacksmith, grist mills, schools, churches, ice house, four mercantile stores and a telephone exchange.
Goodspeed, History of Tennessee, Haywood County,  1887: Wellwood, a post village ten miles east of Brownsville, contains a store, church and mechanic shop.
 


photo and information contributed by
Mary Ann Mastin
     

#1. and #1. back row and 2nd row not visible

 

 

Back Row l to r

1 Leslie Sullivan

2 Roy Mitchell

3 Luther Belch

4 Tom McCage

5 Edgar Smith

6 Owen Joyner

7 Ruth Joyner

8 Thelma Lea

9 Gladys Overton

10 Pearl Belch

11 Lorine Tippette

12 Mai Brown

13 Mattie Medlin’

 

2nd row L to R

1 Gertrude Tippette

2 Nettie Bowlin

3 Dura Hill

4 Nable Joyner

5 Myrtle Hill

6 Mrs. Emma D. Dzerm
( NOT SURE OF SPELLING)

7 Lee Livingood

8 Beatrice Edwards

9 May Mitchell

10 Zelma Tippette

11 Velma Overton

12 Lizzie Bell Tippette

13 Allice Sue Boling

14 Delsie Mitchell

 

3rd row , 5 boys standing

1 Guy Shaw

2 Connie Hill

3 Frank Bowlin

4 Irvin Edwards

5William C Joyner

 

Seated

1 Concis Chandler

2 Teddy Faircloth

3 Osie Edwards

4 Ashley Edwards

5 Murrell Campbell

6 Gennie Lee Bowlin

7 Nina Tippette

8 Willie Mae Edwards

9 Mildred Brown

10 Oma Brown

11 Cozette Herbert

12 Viola Herbert

13 Elsie Mitchell

14 Vera Faircloth

15 Aline Shaw

16 Ina or Iva  Campbell