Caney College Pippapass, Kentucky
Dedicated to Miss Thelma Daniels she was a Caney Girl
who gave so much and was the owner of these Awesome pic's
Caney College December, early "1920's", the packages on the ground  past the fence and to the left of the bridge are Christmas gifts that were donated by various organizations from all over the US.  The care packages were wrapped by the students and were given to area churches, schools , and families of Caney and surrounding areas. My great aunt
Thelma Daniels received a bye lo doll in 1923 to which I am now the proud owner of.Note the Christmas lights on porch
Alice Lloyd, Harry Wallace recalled, originally came to the mountains for her health, but once she had the school her sole pupose was to train teachers for the mountain area, and her request was that all students give something back to the mountains. Caney Creek College was, originally, a two year college.  While it is not, Harry continued,religous affiliated, the students do take religion, the target being to educate "good,upright citizens." Harry's father finished
the eight grade and, Harry said,in those days if you were past the eight grade you had to go off to board.

The road to Caney Creek was just a wagon trail for many years. After Alice Lloyd died they changed the name of the college.The story of Caney Creek appeared in Reader's Digest, "Stay on Stranger", and Paul Jordan was with the Associated Press in Louisville at the time, and remembers that shortly after it's appearance the school received several thousands of dollars from a very impressed public.

Caney Creek College had a dress code, Harry said, not like today when there is no dress code, just blue jeans and whatever.  At Caney the boys had to wear a tie, the girls wore middy blouses,sailor-like outfits.  They wore bows,red bow was high school,blue bow was college for, back then. Caney was a high school with a college. All students took a pledge, not a written pledge, for them to give us, Harry said, two years college."We were to come back after finishing and getting our degrees and give the mountains at least one year. "We had that drilled into our heads," Harry said.
"We were not to go to some other state, but to come back and here and serve. Very few" he added,"regretted it.

"Every semester," Harry continued, "We paid a $10 free will offering.All students had to work-haul coal,gather kindling,clean out he stoves and the girls had to cook.  We ate mostly beans,potatoes and cabbage and powered milk."

It was well known that Mrs. Alice Lloyd was "super strict" and stories abounded about her disciplinary measures. Boys and girls were segregated and the segregation brought "wahoo trees" into being.

"We boys," Harry said, "weren't allowed to speak to the girls,but we would climb these trees and talk to the girls through the windows. Back then they only had about 150 students, now it's 300 or 400.
We boys lived in small wooden houses, and the girls stayed in their own dorm. We didn't have classes with the girls," Harry continued"The sexs were totally segregated. I asked to live in a small place so I could study." Where I lived were only two of us,some other places were five or ten boys and you just couldn't study."

Mommie pounded it into our heads, "Study,learn and better yourself. Education is the road to everything." Education was one of the roads leading out of the coal camps.

But had it not been for these splendid teachers, our fathers-black,white,American,Italian,Polish,German, and Slovakian-the men who"got the coal out", and the United Mine Workers of America, the road would have never been there at all for us coal camp kids.

Taken from:Coal Camp Kids
By Barbara Ford Ritch 1991
Paul R. Gordan, Editor
Thelma Daniels, Caney
Thelma Daniels, at Caney College
Thelma Daniels, with the love of her life the children!
Inside the dorms, when Thelma first went to school here she said the floors were made of dirt, and the rooms were cold! abt 1923
Miss Thelma Daniels born Oct. 13,1908 in Williamsport, Johnson County, Kentucky, she was the d/o Richard Lloyd +
Luella Heffner Daniels. Thelma went to Caney College for two years and then went on to the University of Kentucky.
She held a Proivisional  High School Certificate which enabled her to teach all grades, she taught all grades starting with
beginning students all through high school. She taught (English, Spanish, Speech and Psychology). While Thelma attended
Caney College she walked many times the 10 miles to her home in Wayland.  She said she thought nothing of it.
Herma Daniels, also went to Caney College, she was the sister of Thelma Daniels
                          and to  my grandmother Marie Daniels Castle
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THELMA LEFERN DANIELS Miss Daniels, age 93,of Wayland passed away on September 26, 2002,
at McDowell Hospital. She was born October 13, 1908, in Johnson County, she was the daughter of
Lloyd Daniels and Luella Madge Heffner Daniels,she was preceded in death by three sisters; Marie Castle,
Herma Kloth, and Hazel Nemeth, she was a retired Floyd County school teacher, a member of the Kentucky
Retired Teachers Association, a member of the Lackey-Garrett-Wayland Women's Club and a member of
the Wayland United Methodist Church. Funeral service were conducted Saturday September 28 at the Hall
funeral home in Martin with burial in the Davidson Memorial Gardens,at Ivel.


Miss Daniels attended the Wayland Homecoming over labor day weekend this year, many former students and friends were so glad she was able to come, some classes held reunions during the homecoming and she attended each one, the 1952 class held their 50th reunion after the parade on Saturday and Miss Daniels was given a big applause and lots of pictures were taken with her, she seemed to enjoy all the attention,she was the home room teacher for that class. the day turned out to be like her last "official" act, she was a classy lady and excellent teacher, she will be missed.
                            Click on the numbers to view the pic's of students at Caney College
                        Some of the pic's have information about them, but sorry to say
                                  there are many pictures of whom are unidentified

One- Herma Combs  Two-Eunice Martin

Three-Piewan-Wade Hall-Mrs. Brown, Bueua Rawsey, Farmer Jones, Kirks Smith,
Goose, Paul Slone, "Lassa's and new play" Feb. 1928, "Sriuple Siwon"
note: My Aunt Thelma explained to my mother that the Caney students went all over the Caney Creek area telling
people about the school and putting on plays, as a means of supporting  the school.

Four- Sycamore Girls-"That Ole Gang O' mine"      Five- Herma 1928

Six-College at "Plauksides" Feb 1928. Wade, "Slick" pet name Wayne, "Dau Pas" Corb
Rosa, Sophia, Gladys, Gertrude, Gomer, "Oppiduiu", Helty, "Seba", Havana, Beuine,
Dobson, Monroe, & "Bud"

Seven- Gertrude Pigman Eight-Granny and Mr. Flynn Nine-Mr. & Mrs. Riley Cole

Ten- Miss Bayes-note-Thelma's Teacher Eleven- Girls of 1925 Tweleve- Ruchimuns

Thirteen Fourteen   Fifteen- "Community House Girls" Feb 1925 Sixteen   Seventeen

Eighteen Nineteen Twenty Twentyone Twentytwo Twentythree Twentyfour

Twentyfive Twentysix Twentyseven Twentyeight Twentynine Thirty Thirtyone

Thirtytwo Thirtythree Thirtyfour Thirtyfive  Thirtysix Thirtyseven Thirtyeight

Thirtynine-Rebecca Lodge, my great aunt Herma Daniels, has an X on her dress.


Founder's Shack (post card pic)-From this tiny building, Mrs. Alice Lloyd provided
the first education in the Caney Creek area. Now surrounded by the college campus,
the "Founder's Shack" testifies to the more than 115 grade and high schools which
Mrs. Lloyd helped found in the eastern Kentucky mountains.
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