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spring, feeding hogs and chickens, foddering livestock, harnessing mules, plowing, fencing, laying up bams-full of hay. He learned skills such as harvesting corn, herding cattle or geese on horseback to the Culpeper stock market, raising gardens and assisting in fall canning, hunting deer and turkey to supplement the family larder.”
“Before the age of twelve, JWs mechanic skills were in demand by neighbors both black and white in the Woodville-Sperryville-Slate Mills area. In later life John would brag, in a low-key manner, that there was no tractor, car or truck built before 1985 that he couldn’t repair. Too often JW was paid for these services in barter, or not paid at all. Despite his mechanical intelligence and capacious farming skills, as a man who could not read and write, he lived his entire life financially disadvantaged. Illiteracy also stymied his patriotic effort to enlist in the Army just after the Korean
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