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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 United States Federal Census > Illinois > Cook > Chicago (Districts 1501-1750) > District 1597
3. Title:   HAPLOGROUP V

Notes
a. Note:   My grandmother was knick named Grandmother Willoughby. She was very quiet with the kindest smile in the universe. She was a seamstress and I always had the most beautiful clothes any little girl could dream of wearing. She would polish my shoes every night so they were perfect when I got ready to leave for school. I remember when I was eight and I wanted to know if there was a Santa Claus. She told me of course there was. I tried so hard to stay up and see for myself. She took me to bed and lay down with me until I fell asleep. When I woke up in the middle of the night she was at her sewing machine making my Barbie doll new clothes. The next morning the Barbie doll clothes were there from Santa. I guess she knew better than anyone who Santa really was. In my family, people are very close to one another. My grandmother was more of a mother by today�s standards. My mother shared me with my grandmother, and I shared my children with my mother, and now my children are sharing their children with me. Families need one another, and I hope my descendants never lose sight of how important it is to involve all the generations in the rearing of children. Generational intelligence is impossible to duplicate with books, movies and the Internet.
  My grandmother, Mildred Pauline Prescott, found out her real name was Courtney Pauline when she applied for social security. The only thing we can think is that Dr. Prine registered her birth with the name Courtney Pauline. We think he must have forgotten what her name was by the time he got back to town and named her after my great-grandmother, Courtney C. Beard Prescott. Pauline married John Homer Willoughby in 1933. She continued to live in the Piney Woods, outside Morgantown, MS until 1942, when she insisted the family move to Columbia so my mother and uncle could go to the "city" schools. My grandmother worked as a seamstress for 40 years. I never knew of her raising her voice, or hurting another person. She loved cats, birds, books, anything Scottish, soap operas, cooking, sewing and playing the piano. She would play, and my mother and uncle would sing. Her favorite hymn was "Walking in Sunshine". She worked harder than any woman I have ever known. The family moved back to the farm (John Homer Willoughby land) in 1972 and built the new house on Granny Turnage�s old homestead. Mildred Pauline would play opera's on the record player. She would also play Grand Funk Railroad (rock band of the 70�s)!
 She was a musical person, and the lyrics I learned from her are what I try to play in my mind. I do not think anyone can take her place. The house is still pretty much as she left it, with her things still in the closet. None of us can bear to change that, because we all still miss her. My brother cared for her with a love and devotion that was beyond anything I have ever witnessed. She is a real angel now, just as she was here on earth.


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