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Sixty-four years ago, John Ficklin was born in Amissville. The seventh of ten children (five girls and five boys), John Ficklin was the son of a slave. His father had been born in 1854 and was freed at the age of 18 following ratification of the Emancipation Proclamation. He used to be the water boy who carried buckets to the field hands. After he was
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