Quilt Commemorates A School

By Daisy Harvill | June 21, 2006

Eva Hall Brown, 89, has donated a handmade quilt commemorating her fond association with Emberson School to the A.M. and Welma Aikin Regional Archives at Paris Junior College.

Mrs. Brown, the quilt’s maker and a former Emberson School student, recently presented it to PJC Archivist Daisy Harvill during the annual Emberson School reunion held at Pshgoda Community Center.

The quilt, according to Mrs. Brown, is dedicated to the memory of students at the old Emberson School that was located in northwestern Lamar County.

Mrs. Brown, who joined 28 others for the reunion of schoolmates, has family history in the area that dates back for generations. Her grandfather was Dr. Benjamin Franklin Hall, an early day physician in the Emberson area. He was married to Rebecca Elizabeth Buster Hall, according to family records.

The parents of Mrs. Brown and her sister, Billie Engel of Fairfield, Ohio who also attended the reunion, were Charles Hall and Florence Caviness Hall.

Mrs. Brown began attending Emberson School in 1924. She said Clyde Caviness Baker “might” have preceded her as the longest attending student by one year. The group was saddened by the absence of James Crain, a class member who was unable to attend because of a broken hip.

Mrs. Brown also presented miscellaneous historic photos and family papers to the Aikin Archives. Aikin Archivist Harvill said she plans to display the quilt soon in the lobby the Rheudasil Learning Center on the PJC campus.

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