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Not sure what you mean by Dr. Samuel moving the family north. Robert & Zerelda James bought the farm & Frank was born there in 1843. After the death of Robert & thru Zerelda's subsequent marriages, she continued to live there until her death in 1911. Frank was living there when he died in 1915.The utter brutality of Dr. Samuel's interrogation aside, the tale is difficult to credit, for we must remember that Dr. Samuel successfully resumed practice when he moved the family North in the '70s. He did indeed die in an institution at the age of 80. He had suffered a stroke of apoplexy a couple years earlier, which made it impossible for his wife Zerelda James Samuel to care for him at home. Dr. Samuel did always claim that the horrible hanging incident permanently damaged his voice. Remember, too, that Dr. Samuel successfully performed the emergency amputation of Zerelda James Ssmuel's right hand which had been grievously injured by the bomb thrown into the family home by the Pinkertons in '75.
The kerosene bomb that killed Archie Samuel, Dr. Samuel's son with Zerelda, mangled her right arm that it had to be amputated above or about the elbow. It is still true that Dr. Samuel suffered & worked very little after that day Union soldiers came to the farm in 1862. By today's standards he would certainly have been declared incapable & incompetent & a medical license would have been revoked.
I guess I'm not sure what point it is you are making.