Four miles east of Lebanon, on the Wilmington road, stands
a new and handsome brick edifice, the marble slab on the front bearing
the inscription, “Greenwood School Sub-District Number Eleven, 1888.
The building is surrounded by a green level yard and in front stand four
fine large maples, also one near the west window of the house. On the
first morning in October there might have been seen, hastening to this
pleasant scene, little groups of children in response to the call of the
rich toned bell in the neat belfry. Passing through the vestibule, they
found themselves in one of the most comfortable and best furnished school-rooms.
Here they have every convenience for study, recitation, exercise and for
making and keeping clean their busy little hands and bright faces. The
furniture is of the latest style and elegantly finished and the citizens
of this district may well be proud of their new school-house with all
its pretty and convenient arrangements. And most of all should they congratulate
themselves of their good fortune in procuring so excellent a teacher as
Mrs. A. J. Mardis, of Sunny side, who has been a very
successful teacher in Montgomery county for a number of years and it is
to hoped that the parents and children of Greenwood will so appreciate
her kind instructions and the influence of her pleasant and agreeable
manners that she may be a power for good among them for many years.
Source: “A Glimpse of Greenwood,” Lebanon (Ohio) Gazette, Thursday, October 11, 1888, p. 4, c. 3
Photo of Elizabeth Catherine Lewis, age 25, in her buggy at the Greenwood School in May, 1914
Source: Photo of her maternal grandmother submitted
by Barbara
Proctor on 6 Jun 2015 who writes,
"I think she was out on a Sunday ride.
Her name is Elizabeth Catherine Lewis, b. 3 Oct 1889
d. 1 Apr 1967, She is a descendant of the Hatfields, Trembles,
Bantas, Dunhams and Brandenburgs in my FF# 114 files.
She worked at March Bros. Publishing in Lebanon. Lived at 449 Mulberry
St. with her father William Arthur and mother Frances
Belle (Frankie) Lewis. William was a carpenter and helped build
many of the homes and other buildings in the Lebanon area.
She married my grandfather, Miles Destin Davis in 1915
and moved to a farm on what is now St. Rt. 123 about 5 miles South of
Red Lion where my mother Frances Lois Davis was born
in 1917. My grandfather is descended from the Hathaways
in my FF #114 file. "
"Six Little Red Schools are Sold," - at auction Saturday, August 17, 1940
Source: Dallas Bogan, Warren County, Ohio and Beyond (Bowie Maryland:Heritage Press, 1979) page 41
Patricia Brickweg
I think there are Lewis & Belle descendents in the graveyard. I have current pictures of the school house. I lived there for 6 years & my daughters saw ghosts as well as other family members whom lived there before me.