How they met

(1980 memoir)
When [my father, Frank Parsons] was young, he worked putting in a telephone line and got acquainted with my mother as she walked back and forth to teach her one-room country school.  Whe he told me about this, he marveled on how she kept a good, orderly school when she was such a small person and her school boys were big and burly and tall as 6 ft.