The nature of Southern rural life has always been about neighbor sharing with neighbor. From Virginia to Texas and from Tennessee to South Florida, it's a unique thing to be a Southerner and particularly a rural Southerner. Yet sharing sometimes has its limits.
In the early 1900s near present day Baker, Florida lived Oscar and Lola (Kilcrease) Richards and family. Mr. Richards was a Holiness preacher who travelled a circuit of churches in the back woods of Northwest Florida.
The Richards had moved to Baker from Red Level, Alabama. Farm families moved frequently in those days in that chea...