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Oden School District was organized in 1928-29 when the area schools consolidated and today children travel by buses from Pine Ridge, Caney, Hog Jaw, Brushy, Sims and areas in-between. The main school building, was built in 1928 and housed grades one through twelve. Built from local rock. The steps and building are still there and today December 2003 the Oden Schools have an enrollment of 260 pupils. This is the largest enrollment ever. Last year 230. In 1929 50 pupils. In 2004 the Ouachita River School District in Western Arkansas was formed. There are two schools in this district. Acorn Schools, located in northern Polk County and southwestern Scott County, and Oden Schools, located in western Montgomery County.
Can you identify any of the pupils?
Front row (sitting)
1st on right: Porter Fryar
L>R10th : Paul Earnest Singleton. b. 1920 d. 1930
2nd Row (1st row standing) L>R (1st standing row)
5th Evelyn Fryar Bland nee Ledbetter
7th Gladys Fountain Campbell (dark clothing, dark hair). She had a copy of this picture (or one very similar)
9th Nora Ledbetter nee Abernathy
Who is the teacher? A lady standing behind the boy wearing a jacket to the right of the photo.Ode Maddox was a ninth grader at Oden in 1929.
Ott Abernathy, Nora' brother should be in the photo.
Porter Fryar's siblings John, Mildred and possibly Eston should be there
The above is a copy of a 10"x6� sepia photograph is courtesy of Diane Singleton who was recently given a copy by a lady during the annual Singleton Reunion, Oct. 26th 2003.
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