James W. Adcock.
Hiram Crunk.
Roscoe Duncan.
Helen Gray.
Imogene Hartley.
Raymond Hughes.
Levi Johns.
I just never knew, nor have any information on above students.
Virginia Reid.
Virginia "Gee Gee" Reid is about as well know to me as any of my Rockport school teachers. From the time that I was able to get out and about until Gee Gee died, I knew that she was in town living in the old "Bert Reid" house and in most of that time frame taking care of the financial business of the Rockport Water Works. She had other endeavors and places of work in this time frame, but if it had to do with the Rockport Water Works, Gee Gee was the person to see or to talk to concerning about any water problems.
Virginia was the daughter of Bert and Lennie Reid and, I think, the youngest daughter, and a few years older than her brother James B. "Buddy" Reid. Soon after graduation, Virginia married Gilbert Lamb, a high school teacher and coach. Gilbert taught and coached at Rockport in 1933. After a year or so at Rockport, Gilbert decided to move on to another teaching and coaching assignment. By then, Gilbert and Virginia were the parents of a daughter, Clara, and when he left, Virginia and Clara decided to stay, and they moved in with Virginia's parents, Bert and Lennie Ried. For the next half century plus, Gee Gee made this her home. Clara went to elementary school at Rockport and graduated from Beaver Dam High School. Soon after graduating, she married Jerry Singleton and they built a brick home on part of the Bert Reid property and in behind the old Reid home.
Tommie Staples.
Natoma Swain.
R. L. Sullivan.
Ruth Tilford..
I do not have any information on the above RHS Students.
Bertha Mae Vinson.
Bertha Mae graduated from Rockport High School in 1932. She married a Saling from Echols. The couple made their home in Echols where they raised a family with their children going to Rockport High School. I have known Bertha Mae all of my life. In the late forties, square dancing was popular in this area and as a youngster, I would go to a few square dances. Then, it did not matter if you were ten or seventy, if you could shake a leg and try to dance to what the "Dance Caller" was saying, you were in with the group. Square dancing then, and as well as I can remember, would break off in groups of four and time and time again, my young pre-teen partner and I would end up with Bertha Mae and her husband as a foursome. They were in their thirties and we were pre-teens, but it just did not matter. All had fun and got plenty of exercise. Later on, there may have been a "Box Supper", but that is another story or a bunch of stories.
E. P. Williams.
E. P. graduated from Rockport High School and married soon afterwards. Somewhere along the way, he became a farmer. Before Peabody Coal Company started mining coal in the Ken Mine area, E. P. had a farm and had raised a family in their farmhouse, that was located near the Hopwell church. The house was on the gravel road that ran from Pond Run Church to the ferry landing at Paradise. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Williams' children consisted of two boys and one girl. Jewel Williams was the oldest son and Eddie Williams the youngest. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Williams' daughter, Janice Williams, was the middle child. My father and E. P. were friends and I met and associatd with E. P. through him. I never knew of E. P. being called by any other name than E. P., thus I am in the dark as to what names are on E. P.'s birth certificate. I am not sure of the year, even the decade that Peabody purchased the Williams farm, just knew that I hunted and fished a lot in that area and one year, after I had been away from the area for a number of years, I tried to get to Campfield Bottoms to hunt for squirrels and it was gone. The farmhouse was gone, even the old gravel road was gone. I did go to the river to see if I could find the old Paradise Landing and of course, it was there, but now a high hill stood where once a gradual slopping hillside allowed automobile access to the river. Not anymore. Anyway, prior to the mining in that area, E. P. and his wife had sold the farm and moved to Beaver Dam. The two boys are still living in Ohio county, Jewel on a farm of his own and Eddie moved to Beaver Dam after going to work for the Ohio County Water District.
Alma Woodburn.
Oliver Shrader.
I never knew Alma Woodburn nor Oliver Shrader.
As always, I have written several paragraphs on some people that graduated from Rockport High School many years ago, actually that graduated in another century. I do not have enough information to rightfully complete this page on the 1932 graduates and probably have made a few mistakes about those that I knew several years ago. Thus, if you see anything that needs to be corrected, please contact me and I will be glad to make corrections. If you have information on the graduates that I have left out, I would gladly work with you in adding information to this page. Please contact me at: durham29@att.net. Thanks for looking.
