Who Are Jack and Louisa?
So here is a family history find. Jack Day Prather was born in Nicaragua to a single mother who had mentioned Jack’s father to him. The name of his father is Ralph Prather – the same Ralph Prather that had married my Grandma Mary when my mom was sixteen. At age eighteen Jack decided he wanted to go to the states and needed proof of his birth. His birth certificate had him listed as Jack Day Garcia – no mention of a father or even his last name. Thus when Jack arrived in the states he dropped the Prather/Garcia and passed himself off as Jack Day and has gone by that name ever since. Eventually Jack did have the desire to know his father – or the man he was told was his father and has been on a mission for many decades. It’s too bad facebook and Google didn’t exist in the 70’s for both he and Ralph were living in California – though different parts. He missed finding him. He did find Richard th...