South Union Campmeeting

In 1900, according the Choctaw County Chronicles by J. P. Coleman, there were 5,797 educable children in the county, of whom 254 lived in Ackerman. For about four months of the year these children attended twenty-six schools. By 1908 this number had increased as shown below. 

LIST OF WHITE SCHOOLS 1908

Ackerman
Adams (near George Wise's)
Antioch (near Reform)
Ashfordsville (near E. P. Black's)
Atkins (near Mathiston)
Baker (near John Williams')
Bankston
Beulah (near Weir)
Bluff Springs (near C. H. Franklin)
Blythe Creek (near Reform)
Bywy 
Center Ridge (near Crow's Mill)
Chapel Hill (near W. B. Mosely's)
Chester
Clear Springs (near Will Perry's)
Cork
Crepe Creek (near McWhorter's old place)
Dido
Downing (near French Camp)
Dunbar (near Will Thompson's)
Ebenezer (near Tom Fox's store)
Fair (near Henry Cobb's)
Fairview (near F. G. Coleman's)
Fellowship (near Joe Franklin's)
Fentress
Gillis
Grange Hall (near T. J. Boone's)
Hebron
Hobson (near Reuben Hunt's)
Hogan's Chapel (near John Ray's)
Hutchinson (near J. M. Hutchinson's)
Lewis Chapel (near Mathiston)
Nebo
Noxubee Grange Hall (near J. T. Sargent's)
Pine Bluff (near A. C. Lindsey's)
Pine Grove (near D. P. Frank's)
Power (near W. H. Power's)
Providence (near Bill Coleman's)
Providence (near Blain's store)
Reform
Shaw (near Charley Woods')
Sherwood
Simpson
South Union
Steadman (near Bill Steadman's)
Stevenson (in Panhandle)
Sycamore (near northwest corner of county)
Taylor (west of French Camp)
Vowell (west of French Camp)
Weir
Wilson (near Huntsville) 

South Union School 2013 
(Casey Triplett Smith is on the back row with X above him)