This is probably the most common question asked during the Q&A after Doc performances. Here is what my research tells me is most likely to be Doc's “score”. I have left in a few of the most common reported incidents for which there is no solid evidence, and have left out most alleged shootings where there is no hard evidence (such as newspaper accounts, court records, or contemporaneous participant/witness verification) for the story.
Summer of 1866 or 67? – Doc's first “shooting incident”.
Valdosta, GA.; Doc is 15 or 16 years old. Doc's uncle's Thomas H. McKey and William H. McKey owned land along the Withlacoochee River, east of Valdosta, GA; Doc and friends have built a swimming hole on the property and Doc (still John Henry) takes Uncle Tom out to see it. There, they find a group of Negro children swimming in the pool. Doc fires a shot or two (Dad's '51 Navy?) over their heads to drive them away. No one is injured. Local rumor mill eventually claims fatalities.
