Teacher in the Public Schools at Rockwood. Miss Rebecca SANBORN, who is principal of the overflow school at Rockwood, was born in Michigan in 1873, moving to Rockwood in '82; graduating in the high school here in '94. She began teaching the same year and has so continued without ceasing. Miss SANBORN makes teaching a continuous study and because of which she was given charge of the overflow school. Besides this popularity, she is universally admired outside of the school room.

Source: Knoxville Tribune, Sunday, 24 Apr 1898.