Amissville Methodist Church

Mr. John Amiss Walter, Mrs Riley's grandfather, taught school for 45 years with Miss Marnie Latham in a school building directly across the road from the Methodist Church shown here. Mr. Walter married Sallie Belle Parr, who was 10 years younger and a student in the school. One day he "whipped" her for misbehaving. They went on to have 12 children.

Ira Beatty, father of the actors Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine, taught school in Amissville about 1925 and boarded with Mrs Riley's grandmother, Mrs Betty Goff.