Hampton City Schools A History of the Origins of Schools Names

○ “Robert Russa Moton: Second President of Tuskegee Institute,” Tuskegee University, accessed August 10, 2020 ○ “Moton School,” How Our Past Defines Our Future, accessed August 14, 2020

A History of the Origins of Schools’ Names:

Committee Members Alma Dietz, HCS Social Studies K-12 Curriculum Leader: Committee Chair

Luci Cochran, Executive Director, Hampton History Museum Beth Austin, Registrar & Historian, Hampton History Museum Charles Baumgardner, Social Studies Elementary Teacher Specialist

Beth Leatherwood, Secondary Teacher Specialist Rodney Richardson, Phenix PreK-8 Assistant Principal

EARLY CHILDHOOD

Robert R Moton (1867-1940)

● Opened in 1948

● It was named after Robert Russa Moton, who was born in Amelia County,

Virginia He is buried at Hampton University

● At the age of 18, Moton enrolled at Hampton Institute

● He graduated in 1890 and became the Commandant in charge of military

discipline (remained for 25 years)

● He was a close friend of Booker T Washington, the founding principal of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, and the two shared a conservative vision of race relations

● Dr Moton was named president of Tuskegee Institute following the death of Dr Booker T Washington

● Both the physical plant and academic programs were expanded during the Moton administration

● Moton was honored as one of the speakers for the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., May 30, 1922, and his contributions to humankind earned him honorary degrees from Oberlin and Williams College, Virginia Union, Wilberforce, Lincoln, Harvard, and Howard Universities He was recipient of the Harmon Award in Race Relations (1930) and the Spingarn Medal (1932)

● Moton resigned from his presidency in 1935 because of declining health and died

5 years later

● The school was named after Moton and opened in 1948 after the Phoebus

branch of the NAACP was asked to negotiate with the town of Phoebus and Elizabeth City County

● In 2005, the school became home to preschool students as the Robert R Moton Early Childhood Center participating in the Virginia Preschool Initiative

● Moton School Mascot: Falcon

● Sources:

○ “Robert Russa Moton,” Encyclopedia Virginia: Virginia Humanities,

accessed August 10, 2020

○ “Robert Russa Moton: Second President of Tuskegee Institute,” Tuskegee University, accessed August 10, 2020

○ “Moton School,” How Our Past Defines Our Future, accessed August 14,

2020

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

Aberdeen

● The original school was built in 1938

● It was demolished and rebuilt in 1973

● Named after Aberdeen Gardens, a New Deal planned community initiated by Hampton Institute (now Hampton University), designed specifically for

the resettlement of African-American workers in Newport News and Hampton

● In 1934, the Hampton Institute secured a $245,000 federal grant to create the housing development

● It was the only resettlement community for blacks in Virginia and only the second neighborhood in the nation for blacks financed by President Franklin D

Roosevelt’s Subsistence Homestead Project

● It was added to the Virginia Landmark Register on March 10, 1994 and the

National Register of Historical Places on May 26, 1994

● Aberdeen School Mascot: Lion

○ St John Erickson, 2018, "Hampton University at 150: Aberdeen Gardens

built by blacks, for blacks", The Daily Press, March 31

Armstrong

● It was built in 1922 and is Hampton’s oldest continuous school

● The school was named in honor of the Armstrong family The school stands today on land donated by the children of William Nevins Armstrong, the brother

of Hampton Institute founder Gen Samuel Chapman Armstrong

● General Samuel Chapman Armstrong was a Union General during the Civil War

who led African American troops

● After the Civil War, Samuel Chapman Armstrong joined the Freedmen’s Bureau and with the help of the American Missionary Association would go on to

establish Hampton Institute

● Armstrong School Mascot: Lion

● Sources:

○ “About Armstrong School for the Arts 2017,” Hampton City Schools,

accessed June 29, 2020

○ William Nevins Armstrong Papers (MS 39) Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library

https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/resources/3016 Accessed August

12, 2020

○ “Samuel Chapman Armstrong,” Hampton University, accessed June 29,

2020

○ St John Erickson, 2018, ‘Hampton University at 150: Visionary educator

founded landmark school’, The Daily Press, March 24

Francis Asbury

● School opened in 1916 with additions in 1937 and 1954

● Fire damaged the school in 1963 but it was rebuilt in 1964

● Named after Francis Asbury (1745-1816), a preacher in the Methodist Church who was ordained by John Wesley

● Came from England in 1771 to preach in the British American Colonies and was neutral during the American Revolution

● In 1784 he was ordained as a bishop of the Methodist Church in America and served in that capacity until his death in 1816

● Interesting side note: In 1780, Asbury met the freedman, Henry Hosier, a

meeting the minister believed to be "providentially arranged" Hosier served as Asbury’s driver and guide and, though illiterate, memorized long passages of the Bible as Asbury read them aloud during their travels Hosier eventually

became a famous preacher in his own right, the first African American to preach directly to a white congregation in the United States

● Asbury School Mascot: Fox

● Sources:

○ “Francis Asbury 2020,” Wikipedia, accessed June 29, 2020

○ “Francis Asbury: Methodist on Horseback,” Christianity Today, accessed August 6, 2020

○ “Harry Hosier: An American Who Gave a Beat to Methodist Preaching,”

Archives & History The United Methodist Church, accessed August 6,

2020

Barron

● Barron Elementary School opened in 1961

● Barron Elementary was named to honor the Barron family, an old Hampton

family with origins that go back to the 17th century, of which several members in succeeding generations made significant contributions to the history of our city,

state, and nation

● Family members served from the early Virginia Navy serving in the American Revolution to the U.S Navy up to the Civil War

● Captain Samuel Barron came to Virginia from Bristol, England in the 17th

century He was placed in command of Fort George (now known as Fort

Monroe) He died in 1750 leaving 3 sons

● The youngest son, James Barron (1740-1787), was appointed by Thomas

Jefferson (Virginia’s governor) to command Virginia’s Navy in 1779

● When James Barron died in 1787, he left 2 sons, Samuel and James Both joined the Virginia Navy and would eventually join the United States Navy in

1798

● Samuel Barron (1809-1888), a grandson of James Barron, was a U.S Naval officer who resigned his commission to join the Confederate Navy in May, 1861 His rank in the Confederate Navy was first as a captain and then promoted to commodore He, and his son, Samuel Barron, Jr (1836-1892) both served in the

Confederate Navy during the Civil War

● Members of the Barron family were slave owners

● Barron School Mascot: Knight (See photo of a knight holding a sword and

shield on school website)

○ “Samuel Barron (Jr.),” Find a Grave Memorial, accessed August 12, 2020

○ “Inventory of the James Barron Papers (1) 1776-1899,” Swem Library, College of William & Mary,

<https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=wm/viw00021.xml>, accessed 13 August 2020

○ “Inventory of the James Barron Hope Papers (II) 1820-1923,” Swem

Library, College of William & Mary,

<https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=wm/viw00094.xml>, accessed 13 August 2020

○ “James Barron,” Naval History and Heritage Command, U.S Navy,

files/zb-files-b/barron-james.html>, accessed 13 August 2020

<https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/research-guides/z-files/zb-○ Property tax lists, Elizabeth City County, 1782-1787, 1798, 1790

○ Robert Armistead Stewart, The History of Virginia’s Navy in the

Revolution, (Richmond, Va.: Mitchell & Hotchkiss, 1934), 144-148

A.W.E Bassette

● School opened in 1970

● Named after Andrew Walter Ernest Bassette (1857-1942)

● He rose from an impoverished background to become an educator, lawyer,

businessman, civic and religious leader

● Born November 1857, possibly enslaved

● He entered the teaching profession after graduating from Hampton Institute in

1876

● In 1895, he founded one of the first schools for African-American children

● Was a founder of the Peoples’ Building and Loan Association to aid African-

Americans in the community to secure loans for property

● His granddaughter, Rachel Noel, was a politician and civil rights leader in

● The Hampton School Board decided in the early 1960s to build the school to

accommodate the rapidly growing elementary school population in this area

● The School Board wished to name the school after a Hampton family that had shown a great deal of interest in education and wanted to make their community

a better place, especially for children They selected the Booker family

● Booker school opened in 1968

● Named after the Booker family with origins that go back to 1621

● The origin of the Booker family began when Captain Thomas Purifoy came over

on the ship “George” in 1621 In 1631, he purchased 500 acres of land on the northwest branch of the Back River in Elizabeth County, which later became part

● From this descendant came George Booker (1805-1868)

● He was a trustee of the Hampton Academy in Hampton and in 1852, when it became part of the public-school system George Booker became Elizabeth City

County’s first superintendent (Elizabeth City County would merge with the City of

● George S Booker had a son, George S Booker Jr (1876-1915) who

died at the age of 39 Not much is known about him but he was born after the Civil War He along with ancestors of Major George Booker are buried in St John’s Cemetery near the Ruppert Sargent building

● Interesting side note: State Senator, Hunter Booker Andrews, was a descendant

of the Booker family He served as Chairman of the Hampton School Board from

○ “Sherwood Plantation,” NASA, accessed August 11, 2020

○ “Richard Marshall Booker,” Hampton History Museum Archives, accessed August 11, 2020

○ “John Booker,” Hampton History Museum Archives, accessed August 11,

2020

○ Jean von Schilling, Booker: Descendants of Captain Richard Booker of Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia (Richmond, Va.: 1996)

○ Property tax lists, Elizabeth City County, 1782-1787, 1798

○ Elizabeth City County Slave Schedules, U.S Federal Census, 1850 and

1860

Jane H Bryan

● The school opened in 1955

● Named after Jane H Bryan (1864-1946), an educator in Phoebus, in honor of her

life-long contribution to public education

● She taught for 36 years and retired in 1938

● She was also active in community activities and in Emmanuel Episcopal Church,

where she taught Sunday School for fifty-seven years

● Born in England, she immigrated to Phoebus with her parents and started

teaching in the public schools in 1902

● Died in 1946 and the school was dedicated to her in 1955

● Bryan School Mascot: Patriot

● Named after Dr Paul Burbank (1896-1960), a dentist, civic leader, and Hampton

school board member

● He was born and raised in Hampton

● He served in the Army during World War I and returned to Hampton where he

practiced dentistry for 42 years

● Was a member of local school boards from 1941 to 1956

● He resided on Chesapeake Avenue in Hampton and died in 1960 His wife,

Fannie, survived him by 31 years

● Burbank School Mascot: Bulldog

● Sources:

○ “Dr Paul Burbank,” Find a Grave Memorial, accessed June 29, 2020

○ “Burbank Elementary School,” How Our Past Defines Our Future,

accessed August 14, 2020

John B Cary

● The school opened in 1958

● Named after John B (Baytop) Cary (1819-1898)

● The School Board at the time, named it after him for Cary’s contribution to

education

● Graduated from William and Mary in 1839 with a Masters of Arts

● Teacher at Hampton Academy until the 1850s, when he formed a new Hampton Academy (later Hampton Military Academy) and acted as principal until the Civil War

● When the Civil War broke out, he was commissioned as a Confederate major and served as commander of the 32nd Virginia Infantry He then served as

Acting Provost Marshall at Yorktown in early 1862 Cary was dropped at the May

1862 re-organization and appointed as AAG & IG to General Magruder in August

1862 When Magruder was sent west, Cary served in the Quartermaster

Department until the end of the Civil War

● Confederate Major Cary was the officer who went to Union General Benjamin Butler and requested the return of the 3 slaves that fled to Fort Monroe citing the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S Constitution That is when General Butler came

up with the famous “Contraband Decision.”

● Was prominent in the effort to turn the White House of the Confederacy from a public school into the Confederate Memorial Literary Society (now the Museum

of the Confederacy) He was on the Board of Trustees, Confederate Memorial Committee of Virginia; Board of Directors, Virginia State Penitentiary

● John B Cary was a slave owner

● After the war, he served as Storekeeper for the Virginia State Penitentiary, a grocer, a Manager for the Life Association of America in 1871, and Agent for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co in 1878

● He also served as Member, Board of Aldermen, City of Richmond from

1890-1894 and as Superintendent of Richmond Public Schools

● Cary School Mascot: Cardinal

○ “John Baytop Cary,” Archives, accessed

○ “Contraband of War: Opening of the Flood Gates,” Civil War Emancipation Word Press, accessed August 12, 2020

○ “Guide to American Manuscripts (Cary Family Papers, page 39),” Virginia History, accessed August 12, 2020

○ “Cary, John Baytop,” The American Civil War Museum, accessed August

13, 2020

○ Robert Francis Engs, Freedom’s First Generation: Black Hampton,

Virginia 1861-1890, 2nd ed (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004)

○ Elizabeth City County Slave Schedules, U.S Federal Census, 1860

William Mason Cooper

● Cooper school opened in 1974

● Named after Dr William Mason Cooper (1892-1979), the first African-American

to serve on the Hampton School Board beginning in 1962, including a term as vice-chair

● He was born in Hampton and played a vital role in the integration of the Hampton City schools

● The Hampton school is one of three schools in Virginia, North Carolina and Nova Scotia dedicated to the educator

● He attended Hampton Institute and Columbia University

● Held a variety of educational jobs/positions in NC, including dean of instruction at Elizabeth City Teachers College

● He was a specialist in adult education

● Dr Cooper was the director of extension at Hampton Institute as well as director

of summer school, research and public relations, and professor of education and registrar from 1929–1950

● He was a faculty member of Virginia State College in Norfolk, and held

leadership positions in many national organizations, including the Virginia Society for Research, the Virginia Interracial Commission, American Teachers

Association and Conference on Adult Education

● Cooper School Mascot: Cougar

● It was renamed after Alfred Sylvester Forrest (1890-1970)

● He graduated from William & Mary and served as principal of Wythe Elementary School beginning in 1923

● Served as principal for both schools, when George Wythe junior high school was built in grounds adjoining the elementary school

● He became principal of the new George Wythe Junior High when it opened for the 1950-51 school year Remained there until his retirement in the early 1960’s

● Past president of the Hampton Rotary Club, as well as a WWI Navy veteran

● Forrest School Mascot: Ranger (Image shows bear wearing a forest ranger

uniform)

● Sources:

○ “Alfred S Forrest, ”Find a Grave Memorial,” accessed 20 August 2020

○ “Forrest Elementary School,” How Our Past Defines Our Future, accessed

August 14, 2020

Christopher Kraft

● Assigned to the flight operations division, he became NASA's first flight director

● Was on duty during such historic missions as America's first crewed spaceflight, first crewed orbital flight, and first spacewalk

● Was very active in the Episcopal church and served as a lay reader

● Kraft School Mascot: Cubs

● Sources:

○ “Christopher Kraft Obituary”, The Guardian, accessed August 12, 2020

○ “NASA Remembers Legendary Flight Director Chris Kraft," NASA,

accessed August 12, 2020

○ “Kraft Elementary School,” How Our Past Defines Our Future, accessed

August 14, 2020

Samuel P Langley

● Langley school was built in 1942 by the federal government to serve the families

of the N.A.C.A., now known as N.A.S.A

● Named after Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906), an aviator and a physicist who was a pioneer in the development of the airplane

● Samuel Langley served as a professor of physics and astronomy and was also the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C

● Mr Langley's accomplishments were honored in many ways The first aircraft carrier was named after him in 1920 Langley Air Force Base also bears his name

● Langley School Mascot: Leopard

● Sources:

○ “Samuel Pierpont Langley,” Wikipedia, accessed August 12, 2020

○ “Samuel Pierpont Langley, Smithsonian Institution Archives, accessed

● Named after Luther W Machen, Jr (1902-1966) who was born in Norfolk,

● In 1922, he began the duties of a shop teacher at the old Hampton High School, which became H Wilson Thorpe Junior High School

● Most of his teaching career was spent teaching vocational electricity and he also taught and administered in the night school at Hampton

● Advocated for visual aids and assembled a vast collection of audiovisual aids and equipment that were owned by the school system and used in the

classrooms of every school

● Active supporter for the creation of WHRO-TV

● Machen School Mascot: Mustang

● Opened beginning in the 1962-63 school year

● It was named after the Phillips family for their contribution to public education and the general development of the community

● The Phillips family originated with Benjamin Phillips and Ruth Boggs Phillips, who moved from Accomack County to Elizabeth City County in 1803, settling in the Harris Creek Road area Here, they raised 9 sons and 3 daughters

● Of the 9 sons, Joseph and James were most interested in obtaining free

education for children in the area in which they lived (Fox Hill and Harris Creek Road) To this end, Joseph deeded 1 acre of land in this area in 1839 to the Trustees of the Fox Hill Academy, then located in Elizabeth City County It

stipulated that if the acre was not used for the school, it would go back to the grantor, who was also one of the trustees

● When the Civil War began, one of the sons, Jefferson C Phillips, entered the Confederate service as captain of the Old Dominion Dragoons cavalry He was later made major of the Third Virginia and eventually advanced to colonel of the Thirteenth Virginia regiment

● In 1861 General Magruder detailed Colonel Jefferson Phillips to burn the city of Hampton rather than permit the federal troops to take the town

● Colonel Jefferson Phillips, a trustee of the Syms-Eaton Academy at the time of the Civil War, and his wife, played a key role in preserving valuable papers and securities belonging to the academy His wife tucked in the apron band the

$10,000 in mortgage bonds originating from the 17th century bequests of Syms and Eaton, and took them to Richmond for safekeeping

● Interest from these bonds served as the basis for rebuilding the Hampton public education system in 1872 It is still used for this same purpose today

● The Phillips family owned slaves according to the Elizabeth City County (as Hampton was once named) slave schedules

● Phillips School Mascot: Falcon

○ Report of John B Magruder, 9 August 1861, in Official Records of the War

of the Rebellion, series 1, volume 4 (U.S Government Printing Office),

570-573

○ “Phillips Elementary School,” How Our Past Defines Our Future, accessed

August 14, 2020

Captain John Smith

● Captain John Smith Elementary opened for the 1967-68 school year

● Named after Captain John Smith, an English soldier, explorer, colonial governor, Admiral of New England, and author

● Smith played an important role in the establishment of the colony at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607

● During a visit to the Kecoughtan Village (in what is now Hampton), Captain

Smith, was injured and cared for by the Kecoughtan Indians until he healed

● Smith School Mascot: Shark

Tucker-Capps

● Tucker-Capps Elementary opened in 1963

● Named after two men, Captain William Tucker and William Capps, who perhaps had a great deal to do with the early colonial settlements on the lower peninsula

● The two were Englishmen who came to America in 1610 and settled in

Kecoughtan, now the present city of Hampton

● In 1619, Captain William Tucker and William Capps represented Kecoughtan when America’s first representative assembly, the first General Assembly of the Colony of Virginia, convened in Jamestown

● One of the petitions that was presented and granted read, “To change the

savage name of Kiccowtan and give to incorporation a new name.” The new name given was Elizabeth City County, honoring the eldest daughter of King James I

● Captain Tucker was in command of Elizabeth City County from 1619-25

● Between 1620 and 1625, William Capps moved from Elizabeth City County to what later became Princess Anne County, and then eventually settling further west to what is now Prince George County

● Captain William Tucker was one of the first slave owners in Virginia He

purchased Anthony and Isabella, who later had a son named William, likely from

the English privateer ships White Lion or Treasurer in 1619 He also appears to

have enslaved a Virginia Indian named Chouponce His descendants continued

to be enslavers Capt William Tucker also made several attacks on Indian towns and was involved in the poisoning of approximately 200 Powhatan Indians at Jamestown in 1623

● Tucker-Capps School Mascot: “Top cat” (Cat)

Sources:

● “1619: Virginia’s First Africans,” (Hampton History Museum, 2019),

<https://hampton.gov/DocumentCenter/View/24075/1619-Virginias-First-Africans?bidId=>, accessed 13 August 2020

● “Lists of the Living and the Dead,” 1623/24; “General Musters of the Inhabitants

● Alfred Cave, Lethal Encounters: Englishmen and Indians in Colonial Virginia

(University of Nebraska Press, 2013), 126

John Tyler

● John Tyler school opened in 1966

● Named after John Tyler (1790-1862), our 10th U.S president, whose term was from 1841-1845

● Tyler was also the 10th U.S Vice President who became president when

President Harrison died after only a month in office

● During his term as president, Tyler was a proponent of states’ rights and Manifest Destiny

● Tyler was born in Virginia and resided in Hampton for a short period in 1858

● He inherited Sherwood Forest Plantation and was a slave owner who owned 70 slaves

● During his life, he served as governor of Virginia, Chancellor of the College of William and Mary, member of both houses of Congress, U.S Vice President and U.S President

● When the American Civil War began in 1861, Tyler sided with the Confederacy and won election to the Confederate House of Representatives shortly before his death He died before he was able to serve his term

● President Abraham Lincoln and the U.S government did not publicly

acknowledge Tyler’s death, as the Virginian was seen as a traitor to the Union

● Tyler School Mascot: Tiger

● Sources:

○ “Tyler Elementary School,” How Our Past Defines Our Future, accessed

August 14, 2020

○ “John Tyler,” The White House, accessed August 14, 2020

○ “John Tyler,” Wikipedia, accessed August 14, 2020

○ “John Tyler,” History, accessed August 14, 2020

○ “John Tyler: Family Life,” History, accessed August 14, 2020

MIDDLE SCHOOLS

Thomas Eaton

● The school opened in 1964

● Named after Thomas Eaton (Deceased 1634)

● Graduated from the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia

● Surgeon who left England and settled in Elizabeth City County (Hampton, VA)

● Bequeathed 500 acres of land, two enslaved African-Americans, and other

resources to support the children of Elizabeth City County The enslaved people continued to be part of the Eaton School’s property, laboring to provide income for the schoolmaster and acting as his house servants In 1696, one enslaved woman was still alive, and was so mistreated by the schoolmaster that he was ordered by the county court to improve her living conditions

● Helped to establish Eaton Charity School

● Thomas Eaton Junior High School opened for the 1964-1965 school year

● Transitioned into a Fundamental School to emphasize discipline, homework high academic expectations, appropriate dress, staff and parent cooperation, and respect for authority

● Renamed Thomas Eaton Fundamental Middle School

● Eaton School Mascot: Eagle

● Sources:

○ “Will of Thomas Eaton, in Rosemary Corley Neal, Elizabeth City County Deeds, Wills, Court Orders, Etc 1634, 1659, 1688-1702 (Hampton, Va.:

Port Hampton Press, 2007), 298-299

○ “Transcript of Thomas Eaton’s Will,” Hampton History Museum Archives,

Francis W Jones Magnet School

● Francis W Jones Junior High School was dedicated in 1977 in a celebration led

by the then State Senator Hunter B Andrews (namesake of Hunter B Andrews PreK-8), who congratulated the Hampton School Board for "having the wisdom and good sense to name the city's newest school for the man who has influenced

so many people."

● However, the need for the school was short-lived and the building eventually became home for the HCS administrative offices

● In 1998, this building was rededicated as Francis W Jones Middle School

● Named after Francis Willard Jones (1917-2004), the first Clerk of Hampton

School Board and Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent, for his

contribution to the development of Hampton City Schools over his 43-year long career that spanned from 1936-1979

● Jones graduated from Hampton High School in 1934 and began employment with the school system in 1936 He served or assisted in nearly every capacity of responsibility in a school administrative staff

● He served three boards at the time: Elizabeth City County, Phoebus, and

Hampton It wasn’t until 1952 that the three localities merged

● When he first started, there were only two on the central administrative staff, he and the superintendent The division had a total enrollment of only 5,319

students When he retired, the enrollment had grown to over 25,000 Besides performing his administrative and clerk duties, one of his jobs was to fire up the

coal burning stove in winter to keep him and the superintendent warm at the Syms-Eaton Academy building For a time, it served as the site of the central administrative office after Hampton High was built

● Coincidentally, as a child, he had attended the first four grades at the Eaton Academy This building where he first began his education would be the same place, he would later spend twenty-five years of his life

Syms-● Even with his many duties in the school system, he was highly active in

community and civic affairs

● Mr Jones considered one of his greatest honor that of being selected "Employee

of the Year" in 1976 by the Hampton Exchange Club and the City of Hampton

● He was selected as Virginia Administrator of the Year in 1979

● Mr Jones was also a member of the Rotary Club for 50 years

● Jones Magnet School Mascot: Jaguar

● Sources:

○ “Francis Jones Magnet School,” How Our Past Defines Our Future,

accessed August 14, 2020

○ “JMMS History,” Hampton City Schools, accessed August 14, 2020

○ “Frances W Jones: Hampton School’s Namesake Dies,” Daily Press,

Armstrong Elementary

● He received his B.A degree from the College of William and Mary and his MEd from the University of Virginia In 1924, he became principal and teacher of

Warsaw High School (Gloucester)

● In 1927, he came to Hampton and was selected as principal of Armstrong