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The piano man
I was born at Bailey in 1922. Some years earlier, my parents had bought a piano from Cullom Music Company in Wilson. Periodically, Mack Cullom, the son of the owner of the company, would come to the house to tune the piano. On May 18, the day I was born, Mr. Cullom arrived to work on the piano soon after I had been delivered. As I was the tenth of 12 children, the seventh of eight boys, my parents had already used the names Johnny, Joseph, William, Clarence and other common names. Mr. Cullom asked if they had assigned me a name. When they said no, he suggested that they name me after his father. Thus I acquired the name Ambrose Nuel. The elder Mr. Cullom’s tombstone can be found in Maplewood Cemetery in Wilson. My wife and I have visited it. Ambrose Nuel Manning |
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