Contagious Genealogy: A Pandemic

  Although my mom's father was older than her mother, he was held back a year in school, placing the two in the same graduating class at Sherrard High School in Marshall County, West Virginia, back in 1940. Their "meet cute" did not spark an instantaneous love connection, as they each went their separate ways after school wrapped up, but this was where their paths first crossed. Edna Arlene Dean & Raymond Lee Millhouse, circa 1947  (after both had served separate tours of duty overseas in World War II) I wrote a previous blog all about Sherrard High, which included all of the school portraits, class pictures, and classmate/teacher names I could find in my grandparents' albums. You can read that one here: https://contagiousgenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/10/sherrard-high-school.html However, at the time the blog "went to print," I had lost track of my grandparents' own graduation pamphlet. I've since recovered said document and decided this article wo...

  OCTOBER 26, 2021 Located in Marshall County, West Virginia about halfway between the cities of Wheeling and Moundsville, Sherrard High School was active from 1911 to 1968 (until it was consolidated into John Marshall High School). Sherrard High had actually been the first consolidated school in all of West Virginia. The area (and school) was named for local landowner Sherrard Clemens, who happened to have been a cousin of the famous author Samuel L. Clemens (aka Mark Twain). Undated photo of Sherrard School. Unknown photographer. Week 35: School Both of my maternal grandparents, Raymond Millhouse and Edna Dean, attended Sherrard, so I’ve heard the school mentioned during several conversations with family members. Plus, I have amassed a small collection of class pictures from family photo albums, which I’ve included in this post. Sherrard School 7th grade class photo, 1936, Marshall County, West Virginia. Standing from left to right is: Pat. Ray, Lee, Tony, Edna Arlene Dean, Glady...