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A complete roll of the class of 1900 was not available.  Two members of the class were Charles Harris and Anna Compton, both of whom were important to the history of Mexia.  Harris, as far as is known about him, is the only native of Mexia to achieve the military rank of Major General.  Compton was a long-time teacher in our school system.

The pay for the Principal in 1900 was $150 a month.  Teachers were $55 a month and the janitor made $25 a month.


School was dismissed from the second Monday in February, 1901 for thirty days because of Scarlet Fever.  Parents were afraid to send their children to school for fear of them taking the disease.

This is a partial list of the 10th and 11th graders of 1901.  There was no listing of seniors.

  • Noland Arvin
  • Harvey Bennett
  • Guy Bond
  • Nathan Bourland
  • Minnie Carroll
  • Oscar Cox
  • Doyle David
  • Lillie Maude David
  • John Friley
  • Bess Gladdish
  • Gertie Green
  • Sadie Green
  • John Groover
  • Sallie Lou Hall
  • Bethel Hancock
  • Mabel Lewis
  • Tom Lewis
  • Lillian Machon
  • Nat Machon
  • John McBonner
  • Joe McCain
  • Ona McDonald
  • Lisia Miller
  • Retta Murphy
  • Jake Nussbaum
  • Rosa Phillips
  • Ona Roberts
  • George Ross
  • Vernon Ross
  • Luella Smith
  • Luther Smith
  • Laura Steen
  • Mary Steele
  • Ernest Stevens
  • Emma Taylor
  • Sophia Wood
  • Oran Wroe


Surrounded by the family and school board of the Mexia Public School, with a host of admiring friends and fellow citizens, the class of 1904 passed from the threshold of schooldom into the outer realm of reality.  The stage at the Opera House was most beautifully and tastily decorated.  The music was furnished by the Prairie Grove Band.  High above the heads of the graduates was a gilded monogram, M.H.S.  (This is an excerpt from the program of Closing Exercises for the class of 1904.

  • Roger L. Burgess
  • W. Barney Humphries
  • Janie Loader
  • T. Osro Lofland
  • Birnie May
  • Ena McDonald
  • J. Rueben Neese
  • William M. Peyton
  • May Phillips
  • H. Clay Watson
  • Herbert Wright


Julia Kauhl was a member of the class of 1906.  She later was employed as a teacher and spent her entire life teaching career in the Mexia ISD.  Hiram Sterling fled the law and became the star of a "wild west show."  Ben Jackson remained in Mexia throughout his life and wrote a newspaper column about Mexia's history for the Centennial additions.

  • Sam Berry
  • Theo Bessling
  • Clara Best
  • Louise Bonner
  • Lucy Kate Bozeman
  • Leon Bryant
  • Preston Burgess
  • Bartow Cousins
  • Jennie Bell Dies
  • Katy Gray
  • Annie Griffith
  • Clay Griffith
  • Ruby Hayter
  • Ben Jackson
  • Julia Kauhl
  • Helen King
  • Mattie Bess Loader
  • Talmadge McDonald
  • Ione McSwain
  • Leonard Miller
  • Terrell Oliphant
  • Phocion Park
  • Mildred Phillips
  • Henry Picture
  • Mary Picture
  • Tom Rennolds
  • Grace Schulz
  • Eugene Sinclair
  • Frank Steen
  • Wiley Steen
  • Hiram Sterling
  • Brozia Stitt
  • Ileen Thomas
  • Maud Vaughn
  • Etta Mae Wooten

 
   
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