antibiotic in the United States. In an online article
by Lily Rothman for time.com, she writes, “Even in
1943, there had only been enough penicillin made in
the USA to treat about 30 people.”) At the time of his
father’s death, William was only three years old.
Since a new tenant who could work the farm
would be moving into the house, William’s mother
moved the family into a small shack about a mile and
a half from her in-laws, Anson Ball King and Dora
Wing King, the same house that now stands in the
historic community on the Brewton-Parker campus.
William and his siblings helped their
grandparents with the farm work, which was
all done with a mule and a plow until 1958. Any
traveling was done by horse and buggy. “My
grandfather would load up the wagon with whatever
vegetables he had and go to the Farmer’s Market
that used to be where Captain’s Corner is now to sell
them.”
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