The area students once attended Olive School which stood across the road, north of Olive Church on Olive Church Road. Olive School was built in 1882. In 1906, Hazel Myrick was the teacher and the families represented in the student body were; Ratts, Shuler, McDowell, Guy, Ground, White, Phares, Gray, Sykes, and Williams. Myrtie and Charlie Ratts taught their younger siblings there at one time. Myrtle Ratts taught at Olive School and Wakeland School.

     Wakeland School, also known as Shoutin' Hill School, may have been built about the same time as Olive School, in the 1880s. Bricks from Wingler's Brick Company were used to construct the building on the west side of Wakeland Road, north of Lewisville road. The school is now a pile of brick and roofing. Myrtle Ratts taught at Wakeland School. Other teachers were; James Barrell, Jim Wilson, Robert Edwards, Luthe Arend, Goldie Asher,m George Means, Grant Cooper, Nellie White Kersey, June Summers Hart, Ella Fidler Williams, Marie Dorsett Harper, Ruth Paul Shields, Corna Edwards, Kenneth Watson, Ruby Pottorff Shuler, and Bertha Colwell Hedrick. In 1913, George Means taught the classes at Wakeland School and students attending were from the families of, Hedrick, Ham, Ratts, Costin, Syke, Stierwalt, Elliott, Knoy, Colwell, Walters, Shoemaker, Watson, Dalton, Favors, Baker, Baugh, Warthen, and Gray.

Lewisville School later served the local children. It served grades one through eight, had two rooms and two teachers.Two years of high school was taught there until 1915. Ashland township consolidated with Eminence School in 1949 and the last year classes were held in Lewisville was 1950.      Eminence Consolidated School is the local school today. It currently has 460 students in grades K - 12.

     Olive Church, also called Dutch Olive Church is on Olive Church Road (225 North), in Section 30. It was the Ratts family church. The church was formed when 21 members from the Alaska Christian Church separated in 1859. Services were held in a log structure on land deeded by Ephraim Ratts. Baptisms were performed in Burkharts Creek. The second church was of brick and built in 1882. It was used until April 3, 1960 when it was torn down for construction of the present church. The Olive Cemetery lies next to the church.

      Ratts Cemetery lies in east central Section 19, off a gravel road between Big Hurricane Road and Olive Church Road. Henry Ratts, born October 16, 1791 - died March 17, 1867, and Rebecca Ratts, born October 5, 1799 - died, August 12, 1865, are both buried there. Other family names recorded on the gravestones include, Gray, Shuler, Lee, Hancock, Lingle Knoy, Colwell, and Letterman. Other cemeteries in the area are;

Fishel Cemetery, Section 25, one mile south of Wakeland.

Lingle Cemetery, Section 26, 1 3/4 miles south of Lewisville Road, off Shuler Road,(950W).

Johns or Saint Johns Cemetery, Section 26 off Shuler Road, 1 1/4 miles south of Lewisville.

Marsh Cemetery, Section 13, 1/4 mile off the north side of Lewisville Road, 2 1/4 miles east of Lewisville.

BIOGRAPHIES

Henry Ratts was born October 16, 1791, and died March 17, 1867. He and his wife Rebecca (Goss) Ratts, born October 5, 1799, moved from Davidson County, North Carolina to Washington County, Michigan in 1823. In the 1830s he bought land in Ashland Township. Rebecca died August 12, 1865, and both she and Henry are buried at Ratts Cemetery. Ephraim Ratts is on the Poll Tax list in 1842. The family may be from Holland, with the original spelling of Ratz.