Parks School
The Photo above is of the students in
Parks School, on Lower Jackstown Road in Nicholas County,
as they looked on a typical school day in 1899.
(top row) Loftus Reed, Charles Collins, Jim Boaz, Jim Gilmore, Earl Reed, Claud Reynolds, Willie
Bell, Guy Bell, Jim Alexander;
(middle row) Tom Letton, Harry Ham, Jim Hamilton, Tome Gilmore, May Higgins, Ella Owings,
Gertrude Highland, Lyda Mae Sims, Minnie Lees Kerns, Agnes Highland, Mary Gilmore, Bessir Conyers;
(front row) Esta Henry, Fannie Garrett, Maud Dalzell, Bessie Walden, Ida Howard Hamilton,
Iva Story, Lyda Reed, Can Owings, Mary Henry.
The two adults in the photo are Rankin Roselle and the teacher, Sue Tuttle.
The photo was giving to James & Mary Lowe by Martha Bowling of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, along with a
letter stating that she didn't really know anything about the people in the photo other than her mother, Lyda
Sims
Clinkenbeard, the girl identified in the second row of the photo by being marked with an X.
Lyda Sims Clinkenbeard also stated in the letter that she was the daughter of J. T. (John Thomas) Sims, the
owner of
a store in Carlisle. It is his name that appears on the front (photo below) of what most people today refer to
as
the Neal Building, the building on West Main Street in Carlisle that is being renovated and restored to become
a
welcome center and home of the Nicholas County Historical Society home.