What fond memories I have of Ethel Nicely Cobble! It is hard now to even research my teachers. I know we think, “Oh, I can remember that”, but time slips away and memory fades. In Union County Schoolday Memories, there is a picture of Ethel Nicely as a student at Union School, though it is difficult to clearly identify the rows for a positive identification. Nonetheless, when working on “Schoolday Memories,” I was told that Mrs. Cobble taught many years in Union County Elementary Schools before teaching 31 years at Horace Maynard High School.

I was privileged to have had her as a history teacher. She knew her subject and had the ability to make the subject so interesting there were - at least to my knowledge - no discipline problems. The English Monarchy was her speciality and she knew the lineage of the Royal families by heart.

As I understand it, school records were not kept by the Union County Superintendent of Schools until the early 1930s. I would love to know the names of the early elementary schools where Mrs. Cobble held court–probably grades one through eight.