Memories of the Coes 31 - Lime Rock School

 That summer we went to Lime Rock to school, another stone school house. When the large new school house was built, a story was built of wood on the stone, and it has been used for a dwelling since. Charles and I both taught there, so we have always had an interest in it. Most of the children at Lime Rock school were Irish Catholics. Their fathers and mothers were rather recent immigrants from the "Ould country." The men were workers on the railroad, in the quarries, and were the more ignorant but most common of farm help. They were similar in status to the Italians who came a good many years after them. In those days we had summer and winter terms of school. Often a man would teach the winter term, when the big boys an girls went, and a girl would teach the summer. 

The next fall I went to Ingham again. Jeannie Van Densen and I boarded ourselves at Mrs. Bissell's on South St. We took nearly all our provisions from home, bread, cake, cookies, cooked meat. I do not remember buying any provisions. Of course we were often supplied from home when our folks came to town, which was quite frequently. There was no mail delivery or grocery or bakery trucks, as today. There were meat and sometimes fish wagon in summer however. 

Farmers smoked hams, and salted barrels of fat port and made sausage which kept a long time. Some fried sausage, covering it with fat which dried out. We also had corned beef and dried beef. We had canned fruit, jellies, pickles, baked beans, home made soup when we boarded ourselves. 

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Patty's notes on this entry

Lime Rock - Lime Rock is a section of Le Roy east of the main part of town. 

Charles - Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939) son of Robert Call (1831-1913) and Charlotte Joslin (1834-1908). He married Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1956) daughter of Albert Coe (1827-1907) and Deborah Prentice (1833-1919) in 1884. There is more info about Charles' teaching career in a post from the Memories of the Calls at https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2020/04/memories-of-calls-15-teaching.html

Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939)

Ingham - Ingham University - Ingham University operated in Le Roy, Genesee County, New York from 1837-1892. It was the first women's college in New York and the first charted women's university in the United States. Elizabeth Ann Coe graduated from Ingham in 1883.

Jennie Van Densen - Jennie Van Deusen (1861-1936) daughter of Albert Van Deusen (1821-1886) and Dorothy Harris (1821-1883). She married Samuel Francis Gilette (1859-1949) son of Samuel Gilette (1823-1903) and Susan Board (1824-1915) in 1884. After their marriage, the Gilette family lived in Le Roy. 

Mrs Bissell's - Possibly the home of Levi (1819-1888)  and Belona Anderson (1823-1907). In 1880, the family was living on South Street in Le Roy. They were in Le Roy in 1870, but since that census doesn't include information about what street people lived on, I don't know where they lived at that time. I haven't found the family in the 1875 census. There are other Bissel/Bissell families in Le Roy in 1870 and 1880, but this is the only one definitely on South Street. 

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