52 Ancestors - Week 4: Education

Amy Johnson Crow's email last week about "Goals Are Out, Questions Are In" inspired me to make this week's blog post a question ... 

Education?  Where did my Grandmother Emma Collins Francis and my Great Aunt Arabella "Vera" Booksh go to school?

New Orleans School Class Photo, circa 1905

We have this large group photo that was taken about 1905. Great Aunt Vera is fourth from the right in the back row and Grandma Emma is second from the right in the third row. 

Arabella Guinevere Booksh
1889 - 1977

Emma Collins Francis
(1888- 1925)

My Great Aunt, known to us as Noo had several nicknames. She was called Belle, Vera and Roonie. She and her family moved to New Orleans from East Baton Rouge Parish in 1893 when she was about 4 years old. (Estimated from Great Grandpa Samuel Booksh's 1930 obituary "...resident of this city for the past 37 years.") 

They were living at 1311 St. Mary Street in 1910 according to the U. S. Census. The family included Samuel W. Booksh and wife Belle M. Booksh and their four children, Sam Jr., Charles L., Wilton T. and Vera B.  The house is still there and Cousin Janet drove by and took photos of it.

My Grandma Emma Collins Francis's family had lived in New Orleans for several generations. On the 1910 U. S. Census they were living at 1220 Second Street, about four blocks from the Booksh family. The family consisted of Charles Alfred Francis, wife Anna Belle and their four children, Emma, Maude, Ernestine, and John. 

The family story was that Vera and Emma were good frinds and went to school together and that was how Emma and Wilton met. They married in 1912 and in September 1913 my father, Wilton Tisdale Booksh Jr., was born.

I have spent all week trying to find out what school might have been in the neighborhood without any luck, but I plan to continue looking. So for now the question stands ... Where did my Grandma Emma Collins Francis and my Great Aunt Arabella Vera Booksh go to school?