This other reminiscence of this time from the "Herald" was written by Mrs. William Redwine nee Julia Leigh:

Within a stone's throw of the northeast corner of Macedonia church, there stood a little log schoolhouse, in the edge of a primeval forest. It had north and south doors and a huge rock and stick chimney on the west side, between t spacious jambs of which several children might stand and, looking up, see the summer clouds sail by. Around the inner wall were nailed desks (wooden boxes with sloping tops, open underneath) a plank seat, also fastened to the wall, which the "scholars" who "did 'ritin" occupied. Above the desks were wooden pegs upon which were hung the dinner buckets and baskets; also the wool hats and home-made caps of the boys and the girls' homespun and calico bonnets. Most of the clothing was woven at home, the boys wearing copperas and indigo blue and pepper-and-salt "breeches" with knit "galluses" in summer, and brown and gray jeans in winter; while the girls wore gaily striped cotton and linsey-woolsey dresses. At intervals over the house stood benches-some with backs and some with none-where sat the "small fry." As a crowning centerpiece stood the teacher's desk, on top of which lay a rule that was brought down with considerable force upon the desk, after the manner of a Speaker's gavel, to "wake up" the school and keep them in wholesome fear of authority; also, when idling and whispering were observed, the rule was thrown at the culprit who was made to pick it up and stand ,.hold,ing, it by the teacher's desk, to the chagrin of the guilty one and the amusement of the school.

The pedagogue was Mr. David Moseley, who taught "readin', 'ritin and 'rithmetic;" also Smith's grammar and g'ography. The books of the time would amaze later generations-Walker's dictionary, "blueback speller," (conning their pages produced many wonderfully good spellers!), New York readers Nos. 1, 2 and 3, and others from which selections were read or "spoke" on occasions.

"The copies written by the teacher with the goosequill pens that he made with his "pen" knife, "Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth," "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." The pens had to be mended or made over very often.

The pupils all studied aloud, if they wished, and when the order, "Get the spelling lesson," was given a veritable bedlam ensued. When visitors came, after each word was spelled, the pupil named the syllable accented.