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the daughter of W. J. Almond and Lelia Leigh Keyser. The Almonds were among the first settlers in the valley. (Miss Keyser was a daughter of Mrs. A. C. (Miller) Keyser of Rappahannock.) At the age of two, the family moved to Rappahannock, settling in Harris Hollow at Glen Eyrie near Washington.
Her mother died when she was about four and with her father and a sister, moved to a farm on Route 211 now known as Echo Hill. She attended classes at The Rabbit in Washington and then went to the Washington School after its construction.
Miss Almond attended Farmville College, now Longwood, for two years and in 1917 came to Rappahannock and taught in the school at Washington under Professor Mitchell. “Jessie Miller Jones Turner and Ned Jones were two of my students and I also taught Ashby Wayland and Downing Wood. Downing and Clifford Woodard were two of the cutest little boys I ever saw,” she said.
“In 1923 I returned to Farmville and graduated in 1925. Under Hugh Hite, Superintendent, I was rural
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