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Note: Nelson Abner Prescott, Sr (Pop) was raised outside Morgantown, MS in the White Bluff area, also known as the Big Piney Woods. He was the son of John Prescott and Courtney C. Beard. . His best friend was John Thornhill. He attended Holly Springs Baptist Church. He had his 100th birthday party at the church. He lived to be 104, very active and very much the outdoorsman. He was an EXCELLENT marksman. He brought wild turkeys back to our area by raising them with great love and patience. Pop worked in Chicago as a calligrapher creating Bibles, certificates and diplomas. Early in his business career, he helped start a business school in Hattiesburg, MS with his brother John Prescott, Jr. Pop raised the children of his brother John P Prescott (Ruby, Opal and JC Prescott) as his own children after his brother left them in Morgantown. Pop would not stop driving a car until he was in his late 90�s. He did not think women should drive cars at all. He knew how to heal almost anything without using doctor�s medicine.
Papa Nelson was a calligrapher in Chicago. He wrote Bibles. He met my great-grandmother, Elam Lee Kyle, when she enrolled in the business school he owned with his brother. He told us his grandmother was an Indian. And she died near the Louisiana/Mississippi border. He thinks she came from Florida. Papa Nelson was a healthy man, who lived to 104.
By 1972, Nelson, Sr. and his children were all living on the farm of John Homer Willoughby. John gave and sold land for a very low price to his wife�s siblings. It was such great fun to visit the farm in those days. We would all sit around the kitchen table and play huge games of Canasta. Grandmother Willoughby could cook beyond anyone�s imagination so we ate, played cards and laughed. This was the last golden age, before illness and old age started to claim the enthusiasm and capability of this generation. As of this writing, only Uncle Abby is still alive.
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