KIMBERLING RESEARCH LEADS TO THIS TIDBIT As you can imagine specific Ozark School info preceding the War of Rebellion is mighty hard to come by. Today while looking for more answers on the Kimberling family, as I research the history of the Ozark Mill, I found this info taken from an 1857 Springfield newspaper! You can read it, as dated July, 1857!!! The program sounds pretty up town for 2014, let alone 157 years ago! At this time Ozark was a part of Greene County. And for many years preceding the Civil War, the little school district at Ozark was known as the Hoover Mill District. I will make a few comments. A number of these childrens parents were important folks of the era. And the Ayres; Inmans; and Dickermans would all leave the area, during the Civil War because they were rebels! James R. Vaughn would go on to become a prominent Christian County attorney and then a noted Springfield lawyer. In 1876 when the first history of Christian County was written by a trio of men, Mr. Vaughn was the young man who delivered that written speech during Americas Centennia celebration, on the Ozark square. M. F. Kimberling is Madison F. Kimberling, age 14 who was the son of James Kimberling Jr. and Jane Pinnell Kimberling. I do not yet know what happened to young Madison in later years. Pictured: the 1890s new Ozark School building which sat where the Ozark Administration offices are located east of the square in 2014. This transcript was researched and published by the late and great Ozarks researcher Marsha Hoffman Rising, and came from a book on file at the Greene County Library on South Campbell.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 02:06:02 +0000
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