~~S1ave Stories
	DiStrict #5	6. 32
	VanderbUTßh County
Lauafl9 Creel
A Slave, Ambassador and City Doctor.

different speciesand kt~ he would love and protect the negro boy.“ After studying several years at the Terre Haute State Normal

George W. I3uckner felt assured that he was reasonably prepared to teach the negro youths and accepted the professorship of ~ schools at Viricennes, Washingtonand other Indiana Villages. “I was interested am in the young people and anxious for their advancemen~ but the suffering endured by my invalid mother,‘~ho had passed into the great beyond, and the memory of little Master Dickie‘s lingex~ing illness and untimely death would not desert my consciousness. I determined to take up the study of medical practice and surgery which I did.“

	Dr. Buckner graduated from the Indiana Electic Medical College in 1890. HIs services were needed at Indianapolis so he practiced medicine in that city for a year, then located at Evansc~ille where he has enjoyed an ever increasing popularity on account of his sympsthetic attitude among his people.

	“When I came to Evansville,“ says Dr. Buckner, “there were seventy white physicians practicIng in the area, they are now among the departed. Their task was streneous, roads were almost impossible to travel and those brave men soon sacrificed their lives for the good of
suffering htizrrnnity.“	Dr. Buckner described several of the old doc-
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tors as “Striding a horse and sétting out through all kinds of weather.“

	Dr. Buckner is a veritable encyclopedia of negro lore. He stops at many points during an interview to relate stories &e has gleaned. here and there. He has forgotten where he first heard this one or that one but it helps to illustrate a point. One he heard near the end of the war follows, and although it has recently been retold it $ holds the interest of the listener. “Andrew Jackson owned an old negro slave, who stayed on at the old home when his beloved master went into