The year is 1898. In the small coal mining town of Birtley, in northeast England, a sixth child is born to Jonathon and Elizabeth Witherspoon. He will be the first and only boy in a family heretofore under the management of five sibling sisters. It is an auspicious start to a challenging youth, but his birth is much more than that. It is the beginning of Percy Stanley Witherspoon's eventful life of adventure, hardship, and pain. Much to the displeasure of Percy's closest sister, Sarah, he is forced into the coal mine at age twelve due to his father's illness. A close brush with death as a...