Person:Martha Prickett (3)

The Ledger gives conflicting dates for Mattie Eleanor (Nellie) Prickett on the same page of the ledger. On page 75 at the top her birth date is Oct 27 1865; at the botton of the page it is Oct 27 1860. Mattie & Wm. were married by Rev. J. O. Sullivan at Rural Retreat, VA.

Contributed by Patricia Prickett Hickin: Quoted from James McChesney Prickett, I Review My Yesteryears . . . . Roanoke, VA: Self-published, printed by Art Printing Co., c1960:

"Over a long span of years I have known many of the fair sex who have expressed themselves in those soft, dulcet musical tones with the Southern accent. Lassies in their teens, young ladies, matrons, and those who had become quite elderly. I would naturally consider my Mother as possessing the foremost of all these qualities. Her gift along this line made her conversation lovely, but she was also a very accomplished singer. The old piano in our home has known the soft touch of her fingers, when a young lassie, [and] until she was [a] grandmother, her sweet voice vibrat[ed] throughout the walls of her girlhood home, then later on, our own--down through the years.

"I would place "Aunt Nellie," my father's sister, the next to be listed among the most pleasing to entrance her listeners in conversation. She lived in our home until I was nine years of age, and in many ways meant almost as much to us children as our own Mother."

1. ↑ Rootsweb chart of Charles B. Prickett: IAPricketts wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi op GET db chuckp.
2. ↑ McWhorter Jackson Sketches
   16.
3. ↑ Research family notes of Patricia Prickett Hickin rrj add the at ntelos add the dot net.

   Date of Birth.

4.   Jackson, P. A. Jackson Ledger. (1887)
   75.
5.   Research family notes of Patricia Prickett Hickin rrj add the at ntelos add the dot net.

   Her source: "Travelgrams: Experiences and Expressions of a Traveling Salesman" by James M. Prickett, pub Roanoke, VA, 1943.