Photographs
Do you have pictures of anything Midland? Do you know any of these people?Pleasant Valley / Three League
Submitted by Kirleen Hiett
On my dad's official permanent record for teaching, Pleasant Valley is listed. I don't know if it was a community or just the name of a school. My parents taught at Three League/Flower Grove and I have pictures of the school and some of the children from 1934-1936. My parents are in most of them, but so are some other teachers and students and good views of the school building. Unfortunately my parents didn't identify the students as they did when they moved over to Mesquite, Borden Co. My dad, Zack Jaggers, was the principal, bus driver, janitor and teacher. My mother, Ella Kate Jaggers taught the first four grades. They were there 1934-35 and 1935-36 school years. Zack's permanent school record shows him teaching in Pleasant Valley in 1935-36. It's not far from Three League. I found Pleasant Valley on a map/chart in a book in the museum at Stanton. Pioneering on the Plains: The History of Martin County, Texas, by Vernon Liles, B. J. Thesis at the University of Texas, for the Master of Arts degree, Austin, Texas, June 1953.
The school bus was made by covering the open sides of a truck with tarp.
Blanche White was also a teacher there, but I'm not sure what grades. Her husband was selected as the president of the Franklin County Reunion organization. I know they were lifelong friends of my parents, but I don't know if he also taught there. There was a big Franklin Co. TX, Reunion there at the school in 1935. Flonnie Wooten was one of the people who attended.
