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were: the Rev. J. W. Pinnix, who taught there as early as
1884; Mrs. C. Lewis Rights, 1875-1879; and Miss Florence
Rights, in the 1870's.
Miss Eugenia Stafford wrote Mrs. Sallie Kerner
Brady, a former resident of Ke1nersville who lived in
Lee's Summit, Missouri, in July of 1966. At that time
Mrs. Brady was one hundred years old. She described
to Miss Stafford the old Tanyard School in this manner:
"It was a one room frame building and had a stove in the
center of the room. There was a writing table and bench
in the back of the room where the teacher taught pen-
manship and the students sat on benches without backs.
I was a very happy school girl. It was there too that I
learned to sing just by Miss Floy (Miss Florence
Rights) leading."
There is little printed information about the exis- M M V Pine Grove School 1899
r. .thea~1e 1-uli;>t t~acher. Al~hough this school was not within
tence of the Tanyard Free School. It is significant that I Y 11111 s, it was _an important part of the area.
Na mes listed on page 96
it was serving some of the community's needs.
The Church was active in its educational efforts at
this time also. In Mrs. Carl Kerner's Our Heritage, she
ner Store Building; later on, a second floor room of the
stated, "True to Moravian ideals that where stands a
James Kerner Woolen Mill. The school was sponsored
Moravian church there stands also a school . . ." Mrs.
by the Moravian Church and largely attended by Mo-
C. Lewis Rights, wife of the pastor of the Kernersville
ravian children. In 1902 i\tliss Cora Galloway finished
Moravian Church, opened a private school which she
her teaching in Kernersville and moved to Virginia.
conducted in the vestry of the Moravian Church. This
That fall I started to the Kernersville Academy and at-
school ran for many years and became quite noted as
tended there for three years - through the spring of
"Aunt Rights' School." She was a good disciplinarian,
1905."
taught the three R's and manners as well. Mrs. Rights
About the time of Miss Cora Galloway's School, Mr.
assisted by her daughter, Mrs. Florence Rights Stafford,
Jule Korner, the builder of the Folly, sponsored a school
taught there from 1879-1889. In 1884 she had 20 pupils.
which was located on the premises of his brother, Joe
This school was sponsored by the Moravian Church.
Korner. He would have someone to teach his children
Miss Cora Galloway operated a school sponsored by
and would also invite other students to come in. Two
the Kernersville Moravian Church in the 1880's. She
of his teachers were Miss Notre Johnson and Miss Ruth
taught in some public buildings - once in the upstairs
Fetter. Some of his students were Mrs. Iona Bellamy,
of the Israel Kerner Store and later in the' upstairs of
Mrs. Carri Whitaker, the late Bern Stafford, and George
J. F. Kerner' s Woolen Mill.
Winfree.
Miss Eugenia Stafford described her experiences at
In 1902 Mrs. W. C. Stafford "took up'' Miss Cora
this school as follows: "I started to school when seven
Galloway's School and taught in her home from 1902-
years old (1899) to Miss Cora Galloway's school. The
1904. This school was also sponsored by the Kerners-
school was located on the second floor of the Israel Ker-
ville Moravian Church. Mrs. Stafford had desks moved

Mrs. C. Lewis Rights into her home and taught as many as twelve or more
. Miss Annie Lindsay "Aunt Rights" taught at the
Music Teacher at Kernersville Tanyard Lane Free School and children.
Academy the Moravian Church
The home, the church, and the school completed the
triangle around which most activities of many communi-
ties revolved in the late 1800's and early 1900's. The tiny
community of Kernersville's Negro residents was no
exception, and it might be said that the school was a
most influential nucleus from which many aspiring forces
grew.
The first classes were held in The Good Samaritan
Hall located on Nelson Street. The teachers were a Mr.
Rush and Mr. White. The first school was built in 1892
on Nelson Street near the Good Samaritan Hall. The
first principal was Mr. Thomas R. Matthews and Mrs.
Cornelia Johnson was his assistant and only additional
teacher. These two taught grades one through seven.

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