DOC SCURLOCK Josiah Gordon Scurlock burst forth amongst us on January 11, 1850 down in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. He was the sixth of eleven children born to Priestly Norman Scurlock and Esther Ann Brown. His pals started in calling him Doc Scurlock when they heard that he had once briefly studied medicine in New Orleans. Probably he didn’t though. What seems more likely are the accounts from 1868 that mention Doc got into a heated argument with a brother-in-law over a calf in Tennessee and the brother-in-law was killed. Doc had to flee to South America because of it and he eventually made his way back through Mexico. Some accounts credit Doc with killing a card cheat in Mexico in 1870, but that has not been verified any more than medical school has been. He came
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