Oral History Interview with Mary Ellen Mowinckle Johnson, April 28, 1975

Handwritten letter from Mary Johnson to Dorothy Depwe with an attached survey on life at the Eanes School and her teaching years there.

Transcribed text

_The following text was extracted via OCR from the digitized scan held by The Portal to Texas History (UNT Libraries). OCR can introduce errors, especially on handwritten material; the canonical record links to the original scan._

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1. What Did the school look like?

About how big was it? P-9 /JX b

2. What time did the students come to school What time did they go home L4 P. Y).

3. Where did they get their water to drink? t.. What did they eat for lunch? O4't 10 -- 04-A" f-' How many came to school? J t& 7. How many months did they come to school? 8. Who hiredyou? Names of the trustees? 9. Did you live near the school? 10. Did you live with the Frank Johnsnns or some other family? 4~A 11. How much did you get paid fo teach ng ? 1331U ,)0-0 12. phat games did the id fotac

_""."", - - -enp- vay during recess ? -- i3

Did you play ball with another school? -- Y

How did the parents get into Austin?=- Did they go down the Bee Caves Road - Was there a bridge over Barton Creek at that time

or did they go across the river? l5. Do you remember any signs of Indians such as arrowheads or a big roc; that some say was in the school yard am

was used for grinding, corn?

Old Eanes School - 1903

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15. Was there a creek by the school and do you know the name of it? 16. Did you have any programs at the school? 17. What kind of stove did you have? -Y\ /' 18. Did parents help in any way? Can you give me any names? Write me anything else 'you think we might like t o know? if > ; Any special . stories that - you remember- that-would be interesting? How long did you teach? -yet U, yvi--1 ' yV bLd - &V

Original record: metapth1065499 on the Portal to Texas History.