Margaret Reynolds

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10/12/2015

School teacher Margaret Reynolds during her commute to the school house in Woodward Oklahoma in 1910.

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Janette Coles

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10/12/2015

Is that a UFO behind her, or a hat? :D

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Laura Robin Loper

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10/12/2015

bahaha! I think it's her hat! Too funny!

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Doris Martinez

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10/12/2015

Omg - anyone can tell it's her hat-geez!!!!!

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Laura Robin Loper

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10/12/2015

Doris Martinez - She was joking - hence the smiley face behind her comment.

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Bill Dozier

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10/12/2015

Now really Janette Coles!!

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Sapphiire Skyy

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10/12/2015

Thank You Ms. Reynolds for being a great teacher, I just know it.

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Sandra Bailey

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10/12/2015

What a good picture!

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Rick McNeill

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10/12/2015

This is just an Awesome picture...

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Joanna Hari

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10/12/2015

I wish I could commute to school like that....

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Gina Kingsbury

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10/12/2015

Until about ten years ago, students at the furthest-out rural high school were allowed to commute by horse. Too much playing around with the horses was a problem though ;)

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Joanna Hari

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10/13/2015

Where I come from (Greece), I think they used donkeys more. Back then in poor rural areas, most of the students had to walk a considerable distance, usually barefoot to go to school.

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Carolyn Butler

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10/12/2015

My grandma did the same in the Sandhills of NE. She was given a room at a private home, a horse and supplies for the school. She was all of 16 years old.

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Rita Parisi

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10/12/2015

And already an independent young woman!

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Carolyn Butler

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10/12/2015

She would talk about how she was afraid of the older boys because they were older and much bigger than her. Most families in the area only allowed sons to attend 2-3 months a year so she was teaching 18 year olds how to read. It was also her responsibility to split logs for the pot belly stoves and get the school warm before kids arrived. She was at school before Sun rise and not home until sunset.

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Lise Karpel

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10/12/2015

What a wonderful picture, thanks so much for sharing this bit of history.

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Sue Daniels

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10/12/2015

My mother was a teacher about 1918 and road horseback to her schoolhouse. I still have the books she used while studying for her certification. She had kids from six to 18 in a one room schoolhouse.

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Rita Parisi

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10/12/2015

And she managed to get them all educated!

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Sue Daniels

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10/12/2015

Yes, and when my husband and I moved to the Marshall Islands for two years I used her textbooks to keep our then four year old daughter occupied when she was "bored".

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Gail Jackson

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10/12/2015

Let me know if you ever want to get rid of those books. I taught for 30 yr. and my passion is old textbooks, esp. reading books. (It's a long shot, but had to ask. I will gladly pay!)

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Sue Daniels

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10/12/2015

I love them too much to part with them, and my daughter is even more sentimental about family things. Good luck with your collecting though.

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Linda Kachel

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10/12/2015

wow...this is so wonderful! I had ancestors in Woodward OK during that time

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Virginia Allain

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Mine were there a little earlier (the Vining family)

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Manalisha Sharma Gogoi

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So nice.

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Zee Zepax Bruins

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Wow this is my kind of people

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Regine Innocenti

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J'adore 💄

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Luanne Blagg

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10/12/2015

My grandma attended that school at that time!

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Virginia Allain

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10/12/2015

My grandmother had left Woodward by 1910 to live in Tyro, KS. (Vining family)

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AncientFaces

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10/12/2015

What are the odds that you'd discover a photo of your grandmother's teacher from over 100 years ago?

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Luanne Blagg

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10/13/2015

I was so excited when I realised it. My grandma would have been in 2nd grade in 1910. She lived n Woodward till the dust bowl when she & my grandfather moved their family to California.

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Tracy Steele

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10/12/2015

Adena Steele Avigayil Yudkowsky See! You don't really need a car. Let's shop for a horseeeee

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Jeanette Brooks

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10/12/2015

I have a picture very similar to this with the exact same caption.

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Charly Carrillo

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10/12/2015

I love this pic reminds me of my grandparents 💋🍷✨

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Dennis La Du

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10/12/2015

WOW

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Jacqueline Heaton

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10/12/2015

I wish I went to my teaching day looking like her👍

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Marilyn Koman Crace

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10/12/2015

Cool picture.

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Terri Allen

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10/12/2015

Amazing picture.

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Gail Jackson

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10/12/2015

Fantastic pic! Thanks for sharing!

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Mariana Pirciu

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10/12/2015

Oh my! I would be late, for I wouldn't head straight to school! :))

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Nancy Yonce

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10/12/2015

My mother had to ride a horse to school. Only way for her to gwet there

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Donna Jacobson

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10/12/2015

Love the hat w/ large brim!!

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Mari Walker

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My grandmother and her cousin rode draught horses to school through swamps - here in Sth Aust, somewhere near Meningie

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Ian D. Swart

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I used to live at Woodward.

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Pam Centers Lee

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Love this! Look at that hat

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Deborah Mobberly

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I am so thankful for strong women like her. Times were not easy but she kept going so children could get an education.

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Aisa Ricks Jenny Pennock Katrina Jensen Uriarte Stephanie Rowberry Parker

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Gina Kingsbury

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Cool outfit! Great on nice fall and spring days, Godawful in winter!

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Valerie Mcbeth

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10/12/2015

This was a sighn of the times in rural America. My uncle did the same thing.

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Brenda Smith

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10/12/2015

dedication

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Linda Sager

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God bless her!

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Willy Dereany

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Lik photo

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Wanda Kneisley Stuckey

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My grandfather, Wesley Von Kneisley lived in Woodward during this time. He was the first postmaster in Woodward, and was an evangelist.

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Joyce Timmins

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10/12/2015

Woodward County and Harper county was where my Mother and Father grew up at but they weren't born until later. My Grandmothers were though.

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Bek Reynolds

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Kelly Reynolds

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Bek Reynolds

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Symone Lindsay

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Bek Reynolds

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Helen Landrigan

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Symone Lindsay

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Jack Reynolds

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Marilyn Johnson

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10/13/2015

I've got some of these.

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Teresa Regenold

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10/13/2015

Very nice love the hat

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Kirsten Bullins

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10/13/2015

Glad you guys love the pic. I posted the picture of the school house she was heading to in my uploaded pictures if you click on my name on this photo. To all the Reynolds relatives and other relations close to this area message me! I have a lot of information on that side of the family as a genealogist and other pictures from the era and family in the area. =)

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