Travis County Rural Schools - Defender Yearbook (Pflugerville, TX)

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W-n fgisiorg HISTORY OF HORNSBYFDUNLAP SCHOOL IN JuLv, 1832, RUEBEN Honnsay NovED TQ THE PLACE wHIcH HAs SINDE BEEN KNOWN AS HORNSBYVS BEND. A WELL FDHTIFIED STUCK- ABE wAs FIHST BUILT, THIS BEING NECESSARY BECAUSE or HosTILE INDIANS wHo WENT T0 FLUNDER AND KILL AT RANDOM- IN AUGUST 1833, JosIAH WILEAHEEH, IN COMPANY WITH roun OTHER MEN. ONE A suHvEYoH, HODE our Fnom HOHNSBY'S T0 Loox OVER THE couNTHT. THE PARTY wAs AMBUSHED BY INDIANS AaouT LuLu DUNSON SIX MILES NonTHwEsT rnou Honnsavls NEAR WALNUT CREEK. Two Qmns. A. I. MCEAGHERN7 WERE KILLED AND Two ESGAPED. WILBARGER NAS WUUNDED, SCALFED, TEAGHER'1886 AND REPORTED THE DEATH or THEIR THREE CDMPANIDNS. WILBARDEH WAS FDUND FOLLOWING A DREAM BY Mns. HDHNSDT IN WHICH SHE SAW HIM ALIVE BUT WOUNDED. SHE URQED HER HUSBAND Tp FIND HIM WHICH HESULTED IN THE RETURN OF WILEAHGEH T0 THE HORNSBY HOME WHERE HE wAs NURSED BACK TO HEALTH. Fon SEVERAL YEARS THERE WERE TWO SCHOOLS IN THIS COMMUNITY, THE HORNSBY SCHOOL AND THE DUNLAP SGHDDL, .SITUATED THREE AND ONE-HALF MILES AFAFIT ON THE AUSTIN-WEBBERVJLLE ROAD. 1N 1905, THE COMMISSIONERS counr PASSED THE ORDER TO GONSOLIDATE THE Two scHooLS, AND THE DISTHIOT WAS THEN CALLED HOHNSDTHDUNLAP. THE FIRST Tnus- TEES WERE! W. M. JONES, H. T. BDWMAN, AND J. M. HDHNSBT. A LOCAL TAX OF 10g WERE ALso VOTED Fon INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. THE GROUND BELEDTED FDR THE SCHOOL SITE LIES ON THE FORMER DISTRICY LINE AND wAs DONATED BY MH. Q Mas. WILL BOWMAN. THE FIasT-sEssIoN or THE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL BEGAN MDNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1906, WITH MH. Q. R. KING, PHINDIPAL. M. M. Honnssv AND ELDEST SON, J. M. KFATBER or SENATOR J. W. HDHNSBYJ. Mn. Honnssv HELPED BUILD THE Hoon CHURCH RJICH WAS usED ron THE FIRST scNooL IN 1867 HE FIRST sEnvED AS SHERIFF or TRAVIS COUNTY - '-IN 1880. A .L