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History
in a Pecan Shell
Hart Seymore, the community’s namesake arrived in the mid 1860s and is one of,
if the first settler in this part of Hopkins County. Little history is
available until just after the turn of the (20th) century, although there had
been a school in place, dating from the late 1880s.
The community had
a store from the early 1900s and the Baptist Church was organized in 1914. A school
reported nearly 100 pupils and at its peak, the Seymore community had three stores.
Proximity to Sulphur Springs
may have curtailed growth, but without a railroad connection, Seymore was destined
for a limited populace.
Postwar progress lured away residents and the school merged with those in Sulphur
Springs. By the mid 1960s the post office and stores had closed and only the
cemetery and church were left. It has been designated a “dispersed rural community”
since the 1980s.
See
Seymore,
or Less by David Knape
Seymore Old Photos: |
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Seymore
Grade School 1940-41
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on photo for large image
Photo courtesy Mary Ellen Ledford |
Class
Photo
Seymore Grade School 1940-1941
Sitting on ground left to right:
Kenneth Ray Douglas, Rayburn Payne and Aubrey
Jenkins
Next row left to right (Girls):
Geraldine Payne, Mary Jo Ross,
Mary Ellen Crabb, Laverne Tolleson, Patsy Ruth Jenkins, Nawanna Lee Douglas Cook,
Mary Jones, Bonnie Thomas, Sylvia "Doe Doe" Sartin, Martha Thomas and ??? Smith
Next row left to right (Boys):
Freddy Burt Noles, Billy Locke Moore,
"Dutch" Newsome, Troyce Ross, James Ralph Jenkins, Melvin "Red" Dunham,
Truman Beesinger, Billy Thomas, Billy Wayne Funderburk, James Edward Sheffield,
Dovie "Chigger" Sartin, James Tolleson and J.T. Gammill (died in a 1944 car wreck).
Next row left to right(mostly girls):
Boy behind Freddy Burt Noles, Dorman
Williams, Dorothy Tolleson, Geneva Jenkins, Mary Helen Frasier, Mary Lula Noles,
Harvey Harrington, Annie Mae Whisenant (teacher in "little" room [died June 2011]),
Mattie Lee Crabb, Mary Jim Sartain, Mary Lou Gammill, Melba Terrell and Dorothy
Jones... Harvey Harrington behind Mary Helen Frazier and Mary Lula Noles (teacher
in "big" room).
Teachers: Harvey Harrington and Annie Mae Whisenant. |
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"The
Seymore School shown during a reunion in October of 2005."
Photo
courtesy Mary Ellen Ledford |
| Twins Lonnie & Nonne
Crabb. Born 1894. "She was teacher at Union and Seymore later. Photo ca 1918
taken just prior to my Father's entering WWI." |
| Nonnie
Mae Crabb Bullock
1894-1959
Teacher (Big Room) of the Seymore School
"She
was the twin sister to my father Lonnie Ray Crabb"
1945
Photo courtesy Mary Ellen Ledford |
| 1945-46
Seymore School Teacher Irene Shelton
Photo courtesy Mary Ellen Ledford |
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Seymore Teacher
Evelyn Christene Cain
1949 Photo courtesy Mary Ellen Ledford |
"The
car is a black Ford belonging to one of the teachers. I think it was Evelyn Christine
Cain. My brother Joe is shown here combing his hair in his reflection off the
chrome bumper." "My
brother Joe Murray Crabb was born 12 25 1935, died Jan 1987 in Arkansas."
- Mary
Ellen Ledford. 1947 Photo |
"The
Crabb home place just east of Seymore on Reilly Springs Road. Just East of Hwy
154. The road led to Reilly Springs."
1950
Photo courtesy Mary Ellen Ledford |
"My
parents, Lonnie Ray Crabb (born 1894) and Lola Bell Green (born 1907) 1925 / 6,
prior to their marriage in 1927."
Photo
courtesy Mary Ellen Ledford |
"Lonnie,
Lola, Mattie, Mary & Joe Crabb - Lived in Seymore from late 1935 to 1951, sold
Crabb Home place 1952."
1943
Photo courtesy Mary Ellen Ledford |
| Mattie
Lee Crabb at Seymore Grade School, 3rd grade
Photo circa 1937 |
| Joe
M.Crabb 3 yrs old
1938
photo |
| "Grade
School picture of me, Mary Ellen Crabb, born March, 1934. I married Jack Ledford
in 1952 - one year after graduation from Sulphur Springs Senior High."
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"Mary
Ellen Crabb in front yard of the Crabb Home place, 100 acres of farm and timber
land."
1949
Photo courtesy Mary Ellen Ledford | |
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