Joseph Brown was an elderly man in his mid-80s living quietly in the rural community of Greeleyville, in Williamsburg County, South Carolina, a region of small towns and farm roads between the Black River and the pine woods of the coastal plain. A retired railway crewmember, he had spent his working life on and around the tracks before settling into a slower rhythm of church, family, and familiar routines in the countryside he had known for decades. To those who knew him, he was an aging but ind
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