Morey Carter (Mount) Shaver
June 18, 1878 - May 18, 1966
On December 31, 1874, Samuel Brainard Mount was married to Ema Jane Pattison. They set up housekeeping on a 80-acre farm about eight miles southeast of Crawfordsville, Indiana. On June 18, 1878, Morey Carter was born to this young couple and would be their only child. She was named after the maiden names of her mother's mother and stepmother.
Little Morey Carter Mount received an efficient grammar school education at the Center grade school about three miles from her home. Even in her first year of school, she was so quick and alert with her lessons that she outshone many of the eighth graders in the same school. She read avidly, and at the age of eight, had been through Plato's Republic.
Also, at the age of eight, Morey confessed her faith in Christ while alone at home. She never wavered in her profession throughout her long life.
At eleven years of age, through the influence of a wonderful teacher, Nannie B. Harris from Hanover, Indiana, Morey decided to follow the teaching profession.
In 1892 she made a move to a farm in the vicinity of Hastings, Nebraska. The next year Morey Carter became the bride of Robert R. Shaver. She became a widow after only one year of marriage. The Mount family also suffered misfortune. Because of financial difficulties they decided to move to De Kalb County, MO, in 1894, where they established a chicken farm.
In 1895, after passing the county exams at the age of seventeen, Morey Shaver taught her first year in Crabhill School District. Some of the schools she taught in this county were: Spring Grove, Mount Gilead, Irwinville, Lone Star, Garden Prairie and Santa Rosa, and then taught a total of twenty years in the public school in Maysville, MO.
After making a success on the chicken farm, the family moved to a house on Water Street in Maysville, in 1916. In the fall of 1918, Mrs. Shaver enrolled in Chicago University, but was able to stay only one year because of the death of her mother in November of that year.
In 1922, her father passed away, leaving her alone in the world with no immediate family or close relatives. She continued to teach during this time.
Returning to college she worked on a Bachelor of Arts degree during the summers while teaching the other nine months of the year. In 1928 she completed the requirements for the degree from Colorado State Teacher's College in Greeley, Colorado. She finished with 250 hours and majors in the fields of Psychology, Agriculture, Home Economics and American History. Feeling the need for further education, however, she entered Missouri University in 1932 where she majored in secondary education with a minor in American History. In the spring of 1933, she received her Master of Arts degree.