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From: "Jim Bullock" <>
Subject: RE: [MABRISTO] Rehoboth School Master
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:30:55 -0700
In-Reply-To: <004301c4d886$1dcda450$9917da42@bob>


Thanks very much, Bob, for your description of your early years in school.
Those were certainly different times. You were 10 years ahead of me in
school. I started during the WW II years and attended the first grade in
three different states before my father shipped overseas. I never
experienced the snows like you had in New England. I was in Virginia and
North Carolina before settling in Oklahoma, which was home.

My paternal ancestor, Richard Bullock, was in Rehoboth by 1645; and my
mother's paternal ancestor, John Medbury, was in Swansea by 1680. But both
families were heading west before 1800 and my grandparents met in Oklahoma
Territory (before statehood in 1907.) There are still branches of the two
families in New England today, but not in Rehoboth.

Jim Bullock
Littleton, CO

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert L. Cole [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 8:47 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [MABRISTO] Rehoboth School Master

Jim I was just reading daves note. 70yrs. ago in my school we had no bible.
just the flag. All kids except handy caped went to school. If you dallied to
school, you got the ruler on an open hand.I lived a little over three miles
from school. We walked with the snow above our knees. We used bobsleds
tabogon and jumpers (A 1 runner with cross board for seat. when you got
going one put the feet on top of the runner. Sometimes it was dark going to
and from school.
In the morning was reading and writing (All grades). After lunch, was math
2ed through 8th. 1 st grade had reccess in the school yard till the bell to
go home. Picked up my tin milk can ane went home with the older kids.
That's how it was in my town.I heard many stories from my Great Grandparents
about there school days.

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