Did your great-grandparents attend Stager country school?
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It was 112 school years ago.
Can you name the corner where Stager one-room schoolhouse once stood? If we are not mistaken it stood on the northwest corner of Bixel and Tom Fett Road between Bluffton and Pandora.
Stager was a combined school district for Richland Township number 10 and number 13.
Here's a school card from the 1902-03 school yer. It also lists all the students and includes a photograph of Clara M. Greding, teacher.
By a quick review of student names, it appears the Swiss dialect was freely spoken during recess.
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