Julian Walker (JW): My father fell off a cart they pulled heavy logs out of the forest with, and the cart ran over him. He was just severely injured, and as an old man, he still had scars on his head where his scalp was rolled back. He was just scalped.

The only medical facility they had up in the town was an old Doctor Shaw, and he did what he could to patch my father up, which was not much. So, he was sent to Wilmington to the hospital. He had to live there and have special care and a family befriended him and took him in.

I'm gonna jump forward seventy-five years. When he was an old man, he would sit in his chair in the front lawn under the oak trees. This one day he was sitting there and an elderly couple came to the house. And the woman was a Mrs. Marshall, and she and my mother were friends. They went into the house. And Mr. Marshall sat out there with us and my dad asked him whe...
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