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were Mrs. Keyser still resides.
Mrs. Keyser’s roots were here, her great-grandfather, grandfather, father, uncles, aunts and cousins owning most of the property up the hollow. Thus the reason for a Keyser family’s presence on the mountain. There were five children born to Robert and Addie of which only one is a true native of this place.
The narration included stories of happiness, mishaps, work, fun, death, etc., all conducive to a well balanced life, although a hard life. A life where money was scarce and luxuries few. A story of a true mountain family struggling in an economy crippled by the not too distant Great Depression of 1929. A story, though not begun on the mountain, was inspired on the mountain and to whom the mountain still calls.
Mr. Keyser worked on neighboring farms for about $125 per annum. Mr. and Mrs. Keyser acquiring the mail route from Rock Mills to Woodville for a meager $33 per month. She driving on good days, he on bad. They also manned the look out tower on Red Oak Mountain for a period of seven years.
For the short span of time they lived here many events took place that made indelible impressions upon the young minds of Mr. Daniel Keyser and his siblings. The 1942 flood, worst in Rappahannock County’s history, was discussed. The murders of Eddie, Sadie and Ethel Johnson at Huntly Post Office and Store in 1941. Their burials being at the Cannon Cemetery just across the river on Aaron’s Mountain Road because Mrs. Johnson was a relative of the once popular Cannon family of Rock Mills.
Also, in 1941 when soldiers came
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