WASHINGTON SCHOOL HOUSE
According to Mary Florence Wall, grandchild of James E. Crowe (b. 1865 d. 1917), James E. donated land and timber toward a one-room schoolhouse somewhere between 1890-1910. I assume that the land donated was part of his acreage in Allen Springs. Allen Springs is the community the Crowe's lived in according to James E.'s death certificate and census'. The photo above, I was told, was the finished product. I am now on the quest for documentation to prove this donation and it's location. In contacting the Western Kentucky University Library in Bowling Green regarding this, I was sent the following newspaper clipping.
The brief description notes the location on Cemetery Road. The librarian stated that this location is near Allen Springs, KY. Allen Springs is currently southeast of Bowling Green off 231. I have exhausted all online resources. The next step is to find some dear genealogically minded soul to actually go to the Warren County, KY court house and look at the archived deeds or I have to actually go to Bowling Green myself. This is on my to-do list.
UPDATE 7/25/12 MICROFICHE RECORDS PROVE LAND DONATION!!
Records Filmed for use:
Warren County, Kentucky
County Clerk
Bowling Green, KY
Deed Book #83
"This Deed of Gifts made and entered unto this the 2nd day of May 1895 by and between J.E. Crow and Mary F Crow, his wife, and J.M. Gilmore and Mary C. Gilmore his wife parties of the first part and Anderson Hewett that of the Board of Trustees of Washington, Dis No 37 parties of the second part. All of the County of Warren and State of Kentucky Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the cause of education the parties of the first part do hereby convey to the party of the second part the following tract or parcel of land being and lying in the County and State aforesaid on the south side of big Barren River and on the south side of the Bowling Green and Scottsville road and on the East side of the Polkville Road and likewise being on or near the northwest corner of Jame Crow's farm containing one acre be the same more or less and bounded as follows tract beginning at a planted stone in the center of the Bowling Green and Scottsville road a corner to Anderson Hewett's land and in Porter Hardcastle's line running with said Hardcastle's line two hundred and ninety four and four-fifths inches to a stone in said Hardcastles line thence East One Hundred and fifty feet to a planted stone thence N7# two hundred and ninety feet and four and four fifths inches to a planted stone on the edge of the Bowling Green road thence N77W one hundred and fifty feet to the Beginning so long as it is used for the educations.....children.... To have and to hold the tract of land herein described and hereby conveyed to the party of the second part his successors in office of School Trustee of School and......and Dist No 37 forever. But if said lot is ever abandoned by said Dis No 37 Said lot is to revert back to J.E Crow and wife when said fifteen dollars shall have been paid back to J.M. Gilmore and wife, the purchase money with the title of general Warranty in testimony where of the said J.E. Crow together with Mary F. Crow, his wife, and J.M. Gilmore together with Mary C. Gilmore his wife who herein joins their husbands in this conveyance for the purpose of relinquishing their rights of dower and homestead in and to said land have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and date first above written.
J.E. Crow
Mary F. Crow
J.M. Gillmore
Mary C. Gillmore
(SIDE NOTE: Also according to Mary F. Wall, James E. would not allow tobacco to be grown in his fields. Apparently, he thought smoking was not beneficial.)
