General Notes

Nathan was always a kindly, generous and devoted father, husband and friend. As land owners, however, there was one area in which he was not tolerant. He did not want his daughters seeing, much less marrying, the McLain boys, whose family worked as share croppers and lived in the Old Miller Place, about a mile down the road from the Porter-Sibley Farm. Even after Roxie and Grover ran off to get married and had a child, he refused to acknowledge the child for many years.

It is possible that Nathan had some kind of drinking problem.

Nathan Berry Porter appears to have died without a will. All of his estate, however, appears to have passed to his wife Lula Mary (aka Mary Lula) so it is possible that he left a will but for some reason it is not indexed or otherwise found in the record books of Pontotoc County.

Buried, along with wife, Lula Mary Sibley, and daughter, Lillian are buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery.

Nathan Berry Porter was all his life called Jack until he had grandchildren. They called him Pap.

Pap had a stroke about five years before he died and was confined to the wheelchair for the remainder of his days. He couldn't always talk after the stroke but he did understand what was said to him.

I need a photo of his tombstone.