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Johnson
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One of the things that occurred at that time--one
of the customs at that time--was most of your boys and
girls, why, went into the teaching profession because
there was no other profession hardly they could go to.
We just . . . many of them used it as a stepping stone.
My older, and oldest, brother taught school, I believe,
at three small schools. He studied law at the time
and later got a license to practice law, became a
county attorney, county judge at Coryell County, district
attorney, and ran for district judge, but was defeated,
and he discontinued running for office. He moved from
Gatesville to Breckenridge where he passed away.
I had an older sister by the name of Pearl Johnson.
She married a man named Frank Owens. She also taught
school at Coryell County, and a married sister, Minnie,
taught at Coryell County a number of years and also
taught at Gatesville. She came to school in the summer-
time at North Texas State Teachers College and got
her bachelor's degree and masters degree and also a
degree in library science. She taught at Gatesville
and also taught at rural schools till they did away with
her school. Then she took a job in the elementary
school at Gatesville, Texas. After she got her degree
at Denton, why, she was drawing a salary of $1,200
at Gatesville, and she got a $1,500 raise to go to Odessa,
Texas.
