Contributed by Mary Anne Hoit Abbe, a granddaughter of Anne Ruth Smith.
Anne’s first teaching job was in Sumter County at a one-room school located near the Prospect Baptist Church. In 1921, she married George William Speed and quit teaching.

Evidently this was started at the summer session of 1918 at the State Normal School in Livingston, Alabama. Each person has filled in a blank next to the following items: Name, Address, Date, Phone No., Boy friends, Girl friends, Greatest ambition, Cutest boy, Cutest girl, By word, Hobby, Favorite boy, Favorite girl, Ideal, Chum, Disposition, Favorite song, Favorite flower, Favorite book, Age, Five years hence, Favorite dance, Favorite college, Favorite outdoor sport, Greatest worry.

I will include the name address date and age of each person. [When a symbol appears for the age, the person usually said something cute.]

Name	Address	Date	Age
Eula Grace Sullivan	Seaboard, Ala., Wash. Co.	July 3, 1918	15
Annie Pearl Hutchinson	Silas, Ala., Choctaw, Ala.	July 3, 1918	20
Mabel Nelson (married)	Seaboard, Ala., Wash. Co.	July 4, 1918	19
Lena McManus (married)	Sunny South, Ala.	July 4, 1918	20
Ruby Sullivan	Seaboard, Ala., Wash. Co.	July 4, 1918	21
Ola Lisenbe	Dixon’s Mill, Marengo, Co.	July 4, 1918	22
Dessie Gordon (married)	Pennington, Ala.	July 4, 1918	18
Agnes Morgan	Sunny South, Ala., Wilcox Co.	July 5, 1918	18
Pauline Jennings	Gordo, Ala., Pickens Co.	July 5, 1918	18
Perdita McKenzie	Melvin, Ala., Choctaw Co.	July 5, 1918	17
Lillie Williams	Carrollton, Ala., Pickens Co.	July 5, 1918	19
Lucu Holcombe	Bladen Springs, Ala., Choctaw Co.	July 8, 1918	20
Leona Russell Smith	Bladon Springs, Alabama	July 10, 1918	*
Gladys Williams	Tuscaloosa, Ala.	July 11, 1918	#
Ruth Holcombe	Bladon Springs, Ala., Choctaw Co.	July 9, 1918	19
"Bee" Pryor	Reform, Ala.	July 11, 1918	!
Vera Thrash (married)	Choctaw, Alabama	Sept. 7, 1919	19
Litth Ione Newton	Sweetwater, Alabama	July 12, 1918	17
Imogene Rogers	Bigbee, Ala.	July 14, 1918	18+
Bessie Bennett (married)	Ward, Alabama	July 14, 1918	19
Maude L. Jones	Malcolm, Ala.	July 14, 1918	^
Ina Dean Fancher	Wilsonville, Ala.	July 15, 1918	=
Lena Lee Smith	Choctaw, Alabama	July 16, 1918	14
Fannie Maude Smith	Choctaw, Ala.	July 16, 1918	11
John M. Smith	Choctaw, Ala.	July 18, 1918	13
Jewel May Thrash	Choctaw, Ala.	August 4th	15
Mamie Thrash	Choctaw, Ala.	Sep. 7, 1919	14
Evelgn Watkins	Pennington, Alabama	July 31, 1918	13
W. C. Hadaway	Choctaw, Alabama	Sept. 7, 1919	39
Anne Ruth Smith	Choctaw, Alabama	Sept. 10, 1919	17
Jewel Thrash	Choctaw, Alabama	Dec. 21, 1919	16
Irina Anderson (married)	Sunny South, Alabama	June 30, 1920	17
Cora Ferguson	Choctaw, Alabama	June 30, 1920	17
"Addie" Lee Gordon	Grove Hill, Alabama	June 30, 1920	>
Clara Simmons	Mowin, Ala.	July 1, 1920	18
Daisye Maude Morgan	Sunny South, Alabama	July 3, 1920	19
Minnie Autry	Thomasville, Ala.	July 4, 1920	8+
Mabelle Glass	Sweet Water, Ala.	July 5, 1920	16
Biddie Glass	Sweet Water, Ala.	July 5, 1920	<
Mary Clara Hoit	Livingston, Ala.	May 3, 1919	9
Will Frank Smith [girl]	Choctaw, Ala.	July 18, 1918	9

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