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LIVE OAK FEMALE SEMINARY
Live Oak Female Seminary was a private school located at Chriesman Settlement near Mount Prospect or Prospect Hill in Washington County, Texas; the site is just north of the modern road from Independence to Gay Hill. The school included a primary and a higher education department and drew students from several religious denominations, though it was regarded as Presbyterian because the founders were of that communion. Although this was primarily a school for girls, the sons of the founders went there, boys from the area were admitted as day students, and there was an occasional male boarder. In 1850 the principal founder, Rev. James Weston Miller, replaced the pastor of the Prospect or Mount Prospect church at Chriesman Settlement, an assignment he held until his death, in 1888...