The winter of 1887-88, Veturia E. Boyd was hired to teach the Deerfield school. She boarded with Ada Oliver who lived 3/4 mile north of Deerfield. Miss Boyd walked back and forth to the school and was told by the school board never to send the children home during a blizzard. She was to keep them at the schoolhouse until help arrived.
During school hours on December 19, 1887, a blizzard unleashed all the fury it had gathered from Canada all the way down. By mid-afternoon, the school children had all been retrieved and Miss Boyd started for Miss Oliver’s place. But starting was about all she got done. For close to two hours, she walked around in circles and asked the good Lord for help. Eventually she gained a half mile and stumbled on the dugout door of a bachelor by the name of Dayton Loucks. Mr. Loucks heard a noise on his door and wondered what it was. He pried open the door, and in dropped Miss Boyd. Nobody knows which of the two were surprised the most.
Being a shy and modest woman, the young teacher sat in a chair in front of the fire all night while the blizzard was howling and dried the clothes right on her back. The next morning dawned bright and clear like short blizzards do. Miss Boyd thanked her host and walked a quarter mile south to the Neil Beckett place where Mrs. Beckett gave her some breakfast and a lunch to take to school. The schoolhouse was less than a quarter mile away. Miss Oliver, worried about her boarder who did not get home the night before, walke
d to the schoolhouse. There she found Miss Boyd getting ready to take up school as usual.