I am not sure how the “Ragged Ridge School” name came about when our school first began. One of my brothers told me that someone long, long ago made the comment that everybody who lived on our ridge looked “ragged,” so our school and our ridge both got that name. Mom and Dad did not know how the name came to be, but they knew that Dad’s father, Grandpa John Frank Williams was part of getting it established. Donald told me that Grandpa even helped to dig the well for the school. I do know it was a certain teacher who helped to give us the new name “Maple Grove School”. She is one of the teachers in the picture (below) taken at a school reunion in 1996.
Memories about my family