Thursday, April 7, 2016

High School Classmates


Marshall (Mo.) High School.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
   Marshall, Mo., May 21. – The fourteenth annual commencement of Marshall High School for ’97 took place before a large audience here last night. Following is a list of the graduates:
   With highest praise – Joseph Clinton Todd, Frank Clinton Barnhill, Misses Ella Stanley Goodsin, Emily Josephine Robertson.
   With praise – Misses Bessie Gertrude Corson, Frances Hereford Francisco, Emma Kelley Fisher, Mary Alice Montague and Bertha Alice Roberts.
   Graduated – Misses Eulalia Katherine Conway, Sarah Bella Highland, Daisy Martin Knight, Gertrude Ligget, Pearl Oldham, Archie Waugh Naylor and Robert Clarence Neville.
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Joe's grandparents Todd, Joseph Clinton Todd and Emily Josephine Robertson were in the same high school graduating class. They both graduated with "highest praise." 

I wonder if they were high school sweethearts? Joe's records indicate they were married in 1903, six years after they graduated from high school. 

Josephine Robertson - that's the origin of Joseph Robertson Todd, Joe's father, and Patrick Robertson Todd. 
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Emily & Joseph about 1939 
in Bloomington, Indiana

Newspaper source: Date: Saturday, May 22, 1897   Paper: St. Louis Republic (St. Louis, Missouri)   Section: Part II   Page: 4; genealogybank.com; accessed April 6, 2016

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