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She remembers that her brother and John would grab up dry corn stalke and duel with them in the fields. “I don’t know why they didn’t put each others’ eyes out,” she said. They had B B guns and shot out the windows of a church in the hollow. They climbed up on a bam roof, got down a weathervane and buried it. “They were into everything.”
She and her sister would plan performances of plays to put on for the boys. They would rush in before the girls were ready. “Patience, patience,” the girls would say. “Well, John had plenty of patients, but never much patience.”
They went to different elementary schools but the same high school. The Millers arrived on horseback, but the Sneads came with a horse and buggy. “We used to torment them,” she said. “We’d steal their horse and buggy and run it all over town.”
They went to separate colleges, and both returned to teach school. Mary stayed in education in Rappahannock County for 50 years, but she said John decided after one year, “There had to be an easier way to make a living.” So he went back to school to study medicine.
Mary married Dike Quaintance,, and when the doctor returned after medical school at the University of Virginia and a year’s internship in Abington, he brought
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