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"Charlie" Charles Parrott and Lucy (Woolum) Parrott |
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"Charlie" Charles Parrott and Lucy (Woolum) Parrott |
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was a physician who lived and practiced medicine at Lida, Laurel Co, KY. For decades, people on both sides of the Knox/Laurel line went for Troy Parrott when a relative got sick; he delivered many of the babies in the area. But the state forced him to quit practicing in about 1950, on the ground that he did not have a license. Apparently he had failed to comply with some kind of requirement. For a while in the late 1950s, he was allowed to practice again. Before studying medicine, he was the teacher at the Taylor School at Tedders, KY, for at least one year in the early-to-mid 1920s. |
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was known as "McKinley," then in later years, as "Bill." He used to relate humorously that according to his birth certificate, "William McKinley Parrott was born at Crane Nest, KY, with Dr. Bird attending!" As a young man he taught school for a few years, including two years at the Henderson Community Settlement, in Bell County. He later migrated to Indiana and eventually to Wisconsin, where he lived for about thirty years, much of that time working as the engineer on an electric train that went back and forth between Milwaukee and Waukeshaw. He and his family returned to live at his birthplace, in 1949. His wife,  Ida (Neuman) Parrott, was the valedictorian at her high school. The return of the Parrotts to the head of Big Richland, in 1949, brought a lot of the outside world to that creek, for they soon bought a white tractor that was the first such machine to replace mules around there. They brought their impressive library with them, with half a wall being taken up by books. Word spread even before they moved that they "had a thousand dollars worth" of them! They brought dozens of games, such as Monopoly, that no one there had heard of, and often welcomed (and served popcorn to) the children of the community who, unannounced, would congregate at their house to play the games at night. Still yet it is said that the games are intact to this day, such was the care with which this family treated them. They were the sponsors of the 4H Club for a while, and Ida, who had worked as a seamstress, was devoted to providing lessons for the girls. Bill had skills that were unique around there, such as knowing how to install electrical wires, important as electricity came to Tedders, KY, about the time Bill and Ida moved there. |
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