Rosebank School: 1876-1960

A contributor to our Jasper County area school page recently sent us several of her grandmother’s photographs from Rosebank School, located in northwest Jasper County.

Aretha “Retha” Talley was born in 1900 at North Fork in Barton County, Missouri. She moved to Duval Township in Jasper County around 1905. Retha attended Rosebank School, and among her things were two photographs of her teacher, Daisy Gregg Cavanaugh.

Miss Gregg was born on Dec. 27, 1882, (some sources say 1884) in Cedar County, Missouri. Daisy became a teacher and was teaching at Rosebank School in 1905. She married Hugh Cavanaugh on Dec. 10, 1906, in Barton County. On the marriage license, both people were listed as living in Jasper City.

They had one son, Spencer Cavanaugh, who was born in 1914.

By 1920, Daisy and Hugh had moved to Cassville, where she continued to teach, working at the Carter School located there. They divorced in 1927 and Daisy later married Albert Farwell on April 18, 1931, in Idaho.

Daisy Ree Gregg Cavanaugh Farwell was a schoolteacher for 42 years, holding life certificates in Missouri and Idaho. A newspaper account from The Jasper County News, Dec. 30, 1948, reported that Mrs. Daisy Farwell of Hutchinson, Kan., has visited with Mrs. Mark Cones. The article noted that she taught at Diamond and Rocky Mound schools 46 years ago and was the former Daisy Gregg, who had lived with Mrs. Anna V. Rex.

Daisy died on Oct. 17, 1952, in Pocatello, Idaho. She is buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Pocatello.