Mary Johnson

Yeah. I came here when I was four years old because I had asthma, and I was 30 miles from the doctor.  To get to the doctor, you need 30 miles for the doctor to get to me.  And so that’s how I ended up in Charlottesville.  My mother — now, they had left — when kids would leave home, the parents wouldn’t let them take the children, but that’s how they got me, by me having asthma.  That’s how I had left the farm because I was born in Franklin County.