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  2. Ronald Prescott Willoughby: Birth: 3 JUN 1937 in Morgantown, Marion County, Mississippi. Death: 1 SEP 1989 in Vallejo, California


Sources
1. Title:   Laurel Shannon Albritton Gorman Personal Interview
2. Title:   1930 Marion County census BT2
3. Title:   1920 Beat 2 Marion County, MS
4. Title:   Morgantown High School, Morgantown, MS
5. Title:   Columbian Progress January 2, 1964 Year 60 Edition 43
6. Title:   The Marion County Mississippi Cemetery Record by Arnold and Anderson
7. Title:   First Baptist Church of Columbia, Mississippi Celebrating 125 Years 1883-2008
Page:   48
8. Title:   Cedar Grove Cemetery, Marion County, Mississippi
9. Title:   Columbian Progress Newspaper

Notes
a. Note:   John Homer Willoughby was the sheriff of Marion County, MS during the Sixties, when the civil rights movement was the on everyone�s mind. I remember that all his constituents, black and white, respected him. I would ride with him in the car and visit people, black and white. He was very proud that his county did not experience the trouble some of the other counties did during this time. When I was 10, he overheard my grandmother saying I should learn to type. He took me to town to the typewriter store, and told me to pick out the one I wanted. I picked out a blue Royal, from the window display. I still have the typewriter. He told me once he saw a group of kittens that had been left out in the rain, and it reminded him of my brother and sister and me. The summer after I graduated from high school he overheard me talking to my grandmother about going to college, and asked me what I needed to go to school. I looked in the catalog and told him, and he soon returned with a check made out for my school. He never questioned me, just believed in me completely. He would take me to church with him, and I really liked getting up on Sunday to go with him. I always knew how much he loved me. When my mother remarried and moved us to Hawaii, my brother hated living there. My grandparents took him in and raised him like a son. My grandparents� home was what I knew as home. The only time he ever was upset with me was when I wore a bikini when washing his car. I did not think it was bad, I was in the back of the house, in the middle of the farm. Someone must have seen me because he came home from town and told me to never go out without my clothes on again. My grandfathers nickname for me was Twerp, and the last thing he said to me before he died was, "I am scared Twerp". I thought, how could he be?" he was the one who taught me about Jesus. I am sure my grandfather was not a perfect man, and I know he made mistakes in his life, but I can only attest to what he was to me. He was the first man I ever loved and respected


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