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date with a teacher friend, she met her future husband, T. Morgan Johnston, Rappahannock fanner and orchardist.
She hadn’t planned to teach the next year, following her marriage, but the school in Flint Hill had no principal. She agreed to serve as principal and teacher until someone else could be found. By mid-year, she was a full-time farmer’s wife.
They had two daughters, and when the youngest was one, Mrs. Johnston went back into the classroom, for a few years in Flint Hill and then in Sperryville, where Mary Quaintance Snead was principal. They made quite a team, and Mrs. Johnston stayed for 26 years, at Sperryville and later at the consolidated elementary school.
After years of teaching various grades, Mrs. Johnston decided she preferred teaching fourth grade. “They can work more independently than the younger ones, and they’re more appreciative of what you do for them than the older ones,” she said. She encouraged her students to use art to express themselves, and she had a marked artistic talent herself. During her last few years in Sperryville, she also taught art the last period of the day at the high school.
She was the high school’s first art teacher. “There wasn’t any curriculum,” she said. “I had to make up my own.” She enjoyed teaching high school art.
“She was an excellent teacher,” Mrs. Snead said. “She really cared about the children, and she had no trouble with discipline.”
Mrs. Snead said one of Mrs. Johnston’s students had struggled with reading through his early grades. Mrs. Johnston encouraged his artistic talents, and as he gained
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