MELLOTT
![First School, Mellott](images/IMG_7643_Bill-Boone_First-Mellott-School_Z.jpg)
First School, Mellott
Thanks to Jeff Bossaer and the "Fountain County Bicentenial"
![Students of Mellott School 1898-1900](images/IMG_7642_Bill-Boone_Students-of-Mellott-1898-1900_Z.jpg)
Students of Mellott School 1898-1900
Ollie Carpenter was the teacher
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Photo thanks to Bill Boone
![Mellott School c. 1910](images/0143a_Mellott-School-c.-1910.jpg)
Mellott School c. 1910
Thanks to Jeff Bossaer and the "Fountain County Bicentenial"
![Mellott Consolidated School 1913](images/0143_Mellott-School-1913.jpg)
Mellott Consolidated School 1913
Thanks to Jeff Bossaer and the "Fountain County Bicentenial"
1912 Combined Commencement with Newtown Thanks to Andy Rice for the submission!
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Drawing by Sally Robinson of Mellott School Photo thanks to Bill Boone
Mellott School abt. 1927
Grades unknown
Mellott School
unknown classes
about 1920-1921
First and Second Grades 1933-1934 Mellott School
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Front row, left to right: Ira Ray Williams, Jimmy Baity, Marvin Crumley, Willa Palin, Harold Parkinson, Julie Ehrie, Jimmy Coats, Betty Leighty
Second row: Martha Drollinger (teacher), Vivian Crumley, Tommy VanHook, Vivian Palin, Lowell Duncan, Norvella Delp, Dickie Kendall, Unknown, Margaret Anne Rice
Third row: Bernice Crumley, John VanNote, Wayne Stephens, Leona Crumley, Marcelyn Ferguson, Bob Ballah, Irvin Bane, Dale Haxton
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![Mellott Class lower grade year ?](images/LowellRice_Z.jpg)
Mellott School Class
between 1936 or before 1940
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Source: Thanks to Andy Rice for the submission!
Lowell Rice is back row 2nd from the left, face partially hidden. He's from Mellott but I don't know enough about how the schools were back then to tell you if this Mellott or Richland Twp.
He was born 1931, I'd put the photo before 1940.