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Farming For A Better Future, page 223

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Also, Rev. John H. Freeman (1862-1933) who helped found the church and for whom it is named, is buried in Moulton Cemetery with his wife, Missouri Freeman (born 1862). 201 Moulton School (Rosenwald)* Originally known simply as Moulton School, according to the Fisk-Rosenwald database, this school began as a two-teacher type school with two rooms. It was built under the direction of Tuskegee about 1915. The original school cost $1,350 with $665 from the African American community, $85 from the white community, $300 from the county, and $300 from the Rosenwald Fund. In the 1920s and 1930s, the school was also referred to as “Rosenwald School,” and the street is still called Rosenwald today. “Rosenwald School” is how it appears on the 1935 USGS/TVA topographic map as well, but the school census records of 1930, simply called it “Moulton,” while “Rosenwald” was reserved for Hillsboro and Courtland. Ms. Mattie Alexander was the first graduate of the school. The wood-framed schoolhouse was replaced in the 1950s with brick structures. The new school built on the other side of the road was larger and named Moulton Negro High School. The local African (Left) School Census Card for the Alexander Family with Children at Moulton High School, 1954 (Lawrence County Archives, Moulton, Alabama) (Right) School Census Card for the Alexander Family with Children at Moulton School, 1940 (Lawrence County Archives, Moulton, Alabama (Bottom) Excerpt of 1940 Census Record Showing John Alexander Owning a Farm on Byler Road (National Archives and Records Administration via Ancestry.com) 223 - LAWRENCE - (4751)    

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