Pioneer history of Ingham County, compiled and arranged by Mrs. Franc L. Adams, secretary of the Ingham County pioneer and historical society.

LESLIE TOWNSHIP AND ITS HISTORY

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school one month, was taken sick, and his schooling ended there.
Mr. Leach is now 91 years old.
Later the district was divided, part going to No. 9. A new log
school house was built where the present building stands. The
district had no deed of the land until Oct. 12, 1880, when one was
executed and signed by Albert J. Wilson and Martha A. Wilson,
his wife.
Ebenezer Young, Sarah Celey, Mr. Rogers, Miss Taft, Joe
Freeman, Thomas Henry, Lorinda White and Adeline White
were teachers in the new log structure.
Daniel Miner, Ed Shaw and Hattie Godfrey Small are the
pupils now living. Sallie Peek was a pupil. She had beautiful
hair which she wore in two briads, and the Indians who came to
her home to beg would call her "petite PIapoose," which means
"pretty child."
Lester Miner, Daniel's father, was director for many years.
He lived just south of the school house, and the district bears his
name.
Later the frame building now standing was built, the log house
being burned to get it out of the way. The early teachers in this
building were Helen Archer, Carrie Harkness, Anna Shaw, Hattie
Wicks and Miss McClure, and all "boarded round."
"There are no girls like the good old girls,
Against the world I'd stake 'em;
As buxom and smart and clean of heart
As the Lord knows how to make 'em.
They were rich in spirit and common sense,
And pretty and all-supportin',
They could bake and brew, and they tatught school too,
And they made such lively courtin'."
Daniel Miner is authority for the most of this information, as
the records to 1890 are lost. He also gives a partial list of the
pupils in the early days of the frame building: In the Jones
family were found Lafayette, Helen and Eveline; in the Norton,
Theodore, George, Albert, Addie, Carrie, Alma and Alice; the
Craddock family had John, Charles, Eliza; the Clark, Polly and
Charles; Marston, James, John and Esther; Miner, Washington,
Harrison and Daniel; the Stitt, John and Rosetta; in the Wood,