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Vimville, Lauderdale County, Mississippi

Vimville is a small community located in the southeast part of Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It is about eight miles outside the city limits of Meridian, Mississippi. In the early 1900s there was a doctor, a store, cotton gin, church and a school. One of the first schools located in Vimville was named Coker’s Chapel School. Coker’s Chapel School was listed as a school in 1880. That school was in session for four months and only had the 1st grade. The teacher was J.B. Foster, with a contract for $174.33 for a term. In 1885 Coker’s Chapel was still only the first grade with R.K. Curtis as teacher with a salary of $181.32. The Trustees were listed as Daniel McInnis, J.T. Coker and R.A. Jackson. By the early 1900’s the name of the school district located in Vimville had been named Vimville School. In the 1917-1918 Winter Term the Trustees were C.R. McInnis, H.W. Brewster and J.W. Carlisle with two teachers – J.A. McBryde and Mary Camp. The school had 49 males and 39 female students. The Trustees for Vimville School in 1920 were J.V. Carlisle, G.R. McInnis and H.A. Brewster. The teachers for that year were Prof. J.E. McInnis, Miss Winnie Graham, and Miss Lucy Gilbert.

The following information is from the History of the Lauderdale County School System - The Vimville Consolidated School District located in Vimville, MS in about 1920 listed the teachers as D.A. Fortenberry, McComb, MS; Miss Bertha McDade, Bell Fountaine, MS; Miss Lucy Pigot, Tylertown, MS, RFD 3; Miss Ruby Porter, Ashland, MS; Miss Viola Phillips, Meridian, MS and Music Teacher, Miss Minnie Stoup, Ashland, MS. The Trustees were Dr. H.W. Brewster, E.W. Rawson and J.B. Carlisle. The school grounds – the school owns five acres of land, good playground, sufficiently level and well kept. Two surface toilets, a sufficient number of shade trees, teacher’s home. Buildings: The school property is worth $8,000. A good school house, moderately well lighted. The house and furnishings are clean and tidy, sufficient backboards, except study hall; box stoves, window shades down stairs. Equipment: In-sufficient patent desks, no library, several maps, stage scenery, piano, no furnishing for the auditorium, wash basins and towels, not framed pictures. Administration: there are 159 educable children in the district, enrolled as follows: first grade, 27; second grade, 26, third, 14; fourth, 19; fifth, 13; sixth, 17; seventh, 9; eighth, 12; ninth, 8; tenth, 5; total 150. Average attendance for the best month was 129. (The district ranking was) first-class, making 95 points (out of 100 scale). (The district had) six wagons transporting 92 pupils. The tax levy is 13 mills.

Dr. H.W. Brewster was the doctor in Vimville. The cotton gin was owned by the Carlisle family and the store was owned by the Brewster family.

The church was Coker’s Chapel

Dr. W.H. Brewster