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year at a one-room school in Geer in Greene County and seven years teaching third grade in Brandy Station. She enjoyed teaching, but found she could not earn enough money. She had become the sole support of “my four old ladies,” she explained. She was living in the home place and caring for her mother, two aunts and an older sister.
“I realized my old ladies were going to starve to death,” she said. “I had to go into a blue collar job to earn enough to live.”
Claude Inskeep, the shop manager and printer at the Culpeper Star taught her to operate a linotype machine. It was wartime, and “the draft got one printer after another,” she explained. “We ran all the presses, collated, hand spiked, cleaned type; I was a printer’s devil,” she said.
Her brother Bruce, meanwhile, was travelling throughout the country as a “tramp printer,” she said. He had been in all of the then 48 states. “He worked until he tired of the neighborhood and then moved on,” she said. “Among printers he was known as a master printer. He said he’d come home and help me take care of my old ladies.”
“He was as gentle as any male nurse,” she said. “We worked together for a couple of years, and then we decided that Rappahannock had been treated badly for too long. They didn’t have a paper of their own. We asked around, and we found enough people in Rappahannock interested in it.
Among the people they asked was their cousin Ned Johnson. He encouraged them to give it a try. “It was a good paper; she contributed so much to the county,” Elizabeth Johnson said.
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