Coffee-Crenshaw County AlArchives Biographies.....Prescott, Jackson Lafayette 1848 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   JACKSON LAFAYETTE PRESCOTT, planter of Beat No 6, Coffee county, was born in
this vicinity in 1848. He is a son of Daniel and Harriet (Richburg) Prescott,
natives of South Carolina, who came to Georgia while yet in their youth and soon
afterward to what is now Crenshaw county, but then Butler county, Ala., where
they married and after the birth of their first child, about 1834, they removed
to what is now Coffee county, settling in the woods on Beaver Dam creek, where
he improved a farm and spent the rest of his life. He died in 1880 and his widow
in 1890. He was born in 1805 and she in 1812. Both were members of the Methodist
Episcopal church for many years, and they were among the very earliest settlers
in Coffee county, when Montgomery, Ala., and Milton, Fla., were the nearest
markets. He served in the Indian war of 1836, and was a hard-working man all his
life, and by his industry and economy made a good living and a good home. He was
one of the large family born to Rev. Ephraim Prescott, a native of South
Carolina, whence he removed to Georgia, and later, but still at an early date,
to Butler, now Crenshaw county. A few years later, probably in 1830, he removed
to what is now Coffee county and was one of the first settlers in that county.
He settled on the Bullock and Elba road, where he followed farming and preaching
for the Methodist church until his death, which occurred before Jackson L.'s
recollection. His wife died at Mr. J. L. Prescott's father's house, while he was
a boy. Prof. Hughey Richburg, the maternal grandfather of Jackson L. was born in
South Carolina, whence he too removed to Georgia, then to Butler county, Ala.,
and still later to Coffee county, in which county he was one of the first
settlers. He was married twice, his first wife being the grandmother of Mr. J.
L. Prescott. He followed teaching many years and raised a large family. He died
in Coffee county about 1867. Mr. J. L. Prescott was the tenth of a family of six
sons and six daughters, as follows: William, died at Atlanta, during the war;
James, died at Tupelo, Miss., during the war; John, killed at New Hope church,
while serving as a member of Clanton's cavalry; Hughey, was in the war with
William and James and now lives in Florida; J. L.; Calvin; Elizabeth, deceased
wife of Henry Bedderton, of Tennessee; Rebecca, wife of John Lindsey, of
Escambia county, Ala.; Saleda, wife of James Bedderton, of Lowndes county, Ala.;
Susan, wife of William Bowden, deceased, of Tennessee; Ann, wife of Benjamin
Robinson, of Texas; Mahala, wife of George Richburg. Mr. J. L. Prescott was
reared on a farm, receiving but a limited education. During the latter part of
the war he did some little service in the home guards, scouting, etc., but was
not called into active service. He began life for himself at his majority,
farming for a time. He was married in 1868, to Etta, daughter of Thomas and
Eliza Clark, who were very early settlers in central Alabama, in Lowndes county,
where they both died. Mrs. Prescott was born in Lowdes county and is the mother
of nine children, viz.: John William; Eliza Ellafare; Narcissa, wife of Walter
Compton; Jackson L.; Daniel; Gordon Moore; Georgia Lenori; Ola and Oscar. In
1879, Mr. Prescott lived in Crenshaw county, moved thence to Coffee bounty, and
from 1872 to 1874 in Texas. He then returned to Crenshaw county, where he lived
three years when he returned to Coffee county. He has farmed all his life but
from 1884 to 1888 he was sheriff of Coffee county. Since then he has lived on
his farm of six hundred and forty acres, of which he has about two hundred and
fifty cleared. He is one of the best farmers and most popular men in the county.
He is a member of Elba lodge No. 170, F. & A. M., and is an earnest and active
participant in all public matters looking to the advancement and prosperity of
the community.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 678-679

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