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weather souped in and the whole shebang was lost, really lost. Raymond declared he went through the same briar patch four times.

Mr. Johnson is a native Rappahannockian, bom and reared on Red Oak Mountain, and according to him, its about as close to Heaven as one can get. He is a member and deacon of Woodville Baptist Church.

He was married in 1930 to Juliett Cotten of Surry County who came here as a school teacher in the fall following the memorable tornado in Woodville in May of 1929. Raymond says in jest that she has kept things stirred up ever since. After living on Red Oak for 33 years, the Johnsons bought and remodeled the Woodville schoolhouse where Mrs. Johnson was teaching when they first met and for the past eight years they have lived there. Mr. Johnson still tends his orchards on the mountain and maintains his bee hives, has plans to do a little furniture reflntohing as a hobby to keep busy, and has already worked a few pieces.

In spite of the fact that Raymond does not like hot weather and has an intense aversion to snakes, he has made a conscientious forest warden. His good nature and sense of humor have made him popular as the leader of hikes for groups of local people, that to, except the one time he pretended he was lost

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