Davillabr/Milam County, Texasbr/30 47.800' N 97 12.357' Wbr/Directions: Start at the intersection of FM-1915 and CR-406. Go .4 miles east on FM-1915. The school is on the right (south) side of the road.br/ br/Text: In 1846, John Marsden Graham of South Carolina settled in this area. After he died of typhoid fever, his brother, Edward Wesley Graham, came in 1856 to take over his estate. By that time Edward Hampton Ross had also settled here. He came from Mississippi in 1852 with his family, including his father, the Rev. David Ross, and his siblings. E. H. Ross's land adjoined the Graham property. The families built a wooden schoolhouse on the southern border of the Ross property. The children began attending classes, and the Rev. Ross held Sunday Church services that October. The families called the school quot;friendshipquot; based on the close ties they had formed. The Friendship Methodist Church developed from these early Church services , and the school became Granger Common School District No. 1. In 1874, the W.T. And Margaret (Madison) Walker family arrived in the area and soon bought a school for the younger of their nine children who could not make the trip to the Friendship School. In a riverbank shack, Margaret's sister Fanny Madison taught children at what became the Lilac Common School No. 2 also known as Aplins Chapel or the Clay Creek School. Common School No. 3 began in a Church of Christ Tabernacle on the Davilla to Cameron Road. It was referred to as quot;who'd-a-thought-itquot;, reportedly because it was in an unlikely place for a school. In 1914 Friendship School District opened a larger structure to accommodate the growing population. The building also served as a Community Center. In the 1930s, the Friendship School merged with the Sharp School District which consolidated into the Rockdale District in 1964. The building continued to serve the Community for many years.