Barbertown School No. 6
Blanche M. Holmes
(1857-1883)
Blanche Holmes, my Great GrandAunt kept a diary during the years she taught school in Little Genesee, Portville, and Barbertown. The diary contains at the end, the attendance records for her class at Babertown during the one summer in 1881, from May 9th to Aug 10th. The class was small, and attendance seems sporatic. Blanche gave up teaching Jan 14, 1882 according to her diary. No reason was given, but she passed on the next year of tuberculosis at the young age of twenty-six. The following are the names of the pupils who attended during that summer.
- Rose Hamilton
- Dora Barber
- Bertie Barber
- Erwin Maxson
- Freddie Hamilton
- Freddie Ward
- Albert Ostrander
- Edith Ostrander
For those of you who wish, click on the following links to download scans of the actual diary pages containing the actual attendance records.To view or download
actual documents
Select (click on) one of the following date ranges
May 9 1881-July 8 1881
July 12 1881-August 10 1881