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tier vigil at tne sperryville acnooi began 4 yean later when! she taught at the old bar room ( where the post office is now located.) This was part , of the crowded Sperryville school. ! ' Though she has taught other grades, Miss Della claims first graden as her love, saying “I don’t know exactly why, Just because I can appeal to them and somehow “reach” them better.’?
she Miss Della laughs when thinks of those first yean of teaching. “Every year, I would work harder, so they would want me back next year.” Aqd for 50 yean they have wanted her back. She has become as much a symbol oi education in Sperryville, as school itself.
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Born near Sperryville the daughter of James Hitt and Allie Nicholson Hitt, both formerly of Madison, she continued to make her home there with but brief intervals of living elsewhere. Fpr
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