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1758 - 1836 (77 years)
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Name |
John "Elder" PARKER |
Nickname |
Elder |
Born |
15 Sep 1758 |
Baltimore, Maryland, British Colonial America [3] |
Gender |
Male |
FamilySearch ID |
LVY2-PT3 |
MilitaryService |
30 Jul 1777 [3] |
MilitaryService |
4 Mar 1831 |
Illinois [3] |
Name |
Elder |
Name |
John PARKER [3] |
Name |
Rev John PARKER [3] |
_UID |
606D3AF9A5BB4002AA9F1DBD86D1C31FFEC3 |
Buried |
1836 |
Fort Parker Memorial Park, Groesbeck, Limestone, Texas [3] |
Died |
19 May 1836 |
Fort Parker, Limestone, Texas [3] |
Person ID |
I2295 |
Carney Wehofer Feb 2024 Genealogy |
Last Modified |
12 Jan 2023 |
Father |
Nathaniel PARKER, b. 1729, Maryland, British Colonial America , d. 1790, Virginia (Age 61 years) |
Mother |
Ann Marie CLAYTON, b. 1 Jan 1726, Glouchester County, Virginia , d. Jan 1790, Hampshire County, Virginia (Age 64 years) |
Married |
Abt 1744 |
Culpepper County, Virginia |
Family ID |
F1120 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family 2 |
Sarah "Salllie" WHITE, b. 10 Jul 1759, Culpepper County, Virginia , d. Yes, date unknown |
Married |
6 Nov 1779 |
Culpeper, Virginia |
Children |
| 1. Rev Daniel Boone PARKER, b. 6 Apr 1781, Culpeper, Virginia , d. 3 Dec 1844, Elkhart, Anderson, Texas (Age 63 years) |
| 2. Holly PARKER, b. Abt 1783, Culpepper Co., Va. , d. Yes, date unknown |
| 3. Abigail Sarah PARKER, b. Abt 1784, Virginia , d. 1844, Elkhart, Anderson, Texas (Age ~ 60 years) |
| 4. Mary Jane PARKER, b. 6 Mar 1785, Elbert, Georgia , d. 18 Dec 1846, Jeffersontown, Jefferson, Kentucky (Age 61 years) |
| 5. John Andrew PARKER, II, b. Abt 1786, Culpeper, Virginia , d. Mar 1830, Cape Girardeau, Missouri (Age ~ 44 years) |
| 6. Benjamin F W PARKER, Sr, b. 13 May 1788, Elbert, Georgia , d. 19 May 1836, Fort Parker, Limestone, Texas (Age 48 years) |
| 7. Phoebe PARKER, b. 4 Jul 1790, Culpeper, Culpeper, Virginia , d. 23 Jul 1863, Anderson, Texas (Age 73 years) |
| 8. Isaac Duke PARKER, Sr, b. 7 Apr 1793, Elberton, Elbert County, Georgia , d. 14 Apr 1883, Weatherford, Parker County, Texas (Age 90 years) |
| 9. Joseph Allen PARKER, b. 1795, Culpeper, Virginia , d. 8 Nov 1839, Houston, Harris, Texas (Age 44 years) |
| 10. Phoebe PARKER, b. 4 Jul 1796, Elbert, Georgia , d. 23 Jul 1863, Edom, Van Zandt, Texas (Age 67 years) |
| 11. James Williams PARKER, b. 4 Jul 1797, Franklin, Georgia , d. 1864, Houston, Texas (Age 66 years) |
| 12. Nathaniel PARKER, b. 1 Jun 1799, Franklin, Georgia , d. 22 Sep 1855, Charleston, Coles, Illinois (Age 56 years) |
| 13. Silas Mercer PARKER, b. 5 May 1804, d. Yes, date unknown |
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Last Modified |
12 Jan 2023 |
Family ID |
F1122 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Notes |
- Relinked to Nathaniel and Ann as parents - as per latest DNA research. Ref from Joe Crouch, Lexington, KY emails.
See "Emory L. Parker" Parker file
(Source: Pension Records, John Parker Pension Application - 8-32435 Certificate 22-363.)
On St. Rt. 14 eleven miles south of Mexia in Limestone County, Texas in 1834, Elder John Parker and his sons, Silas,James and Benjamin F., built Fort Parker stockade. There is a replica of the fort on land deeded to the State in 1933 by private owners. (Texas Handbook via the internet).
John Parker was a Revolutionary Soldier, Serial # S32435. He served in the 2nd and 3rd Regiment of the Continental Army of Virginia. After the war he moved to Elbert, Georgia. Here John was made an Elder in the Primitive Baptist Church.
He moved to Bedford County, Tennessee and lived there for about twelve years, and then moved to Crawford County, Illinois in 1814. It was here that Sarah "Sally" White died and also that John remarried. He married Sally Duty, the 21st of March 1825.
From LaFaye C. Sutkin, Ph.D. - [email protected]
Hardships in VA after the Revolutionary War caused John Parker to move his family to Elbert Co., GA. As civilization made inroads into GA, he decided to move his family to TN where economic possibilities were rumored to bo better. This trek was made about 1803.
Qfter listening to the stories of trappers, the Parkers and many of their congregation, set off for IL, where Sallie died, and then off to TX.
About 1832, the Parker family moved to Texas from Quincy, IL, taking the Baptist Church in IL with them. On Sat. evenings they would pitch their tents and on Sun. all of the ordinances of the Church were observed.
The caravan of the Parkers came up on the east side of the Navasota River until they struck the old San Antonio Road and made their way to the present Houston County, near the north line of the present town of Grapeland. From this place the Parker clan scattered. Daniel took his children and went a few miles north to what is now Elkhart, in Anderson Co.. Silas, James, Benjamin and Elder John pushed on to the west. They first took their families to the last fort that was thought to be safe from Indian attack, Fort Houston, which is about 2 mi. west of the present city of Palestine, Anderson Co., TX. The fort was an important point of frontier defense from 1836-1839. It was abandoned in 1841, and later the site became home of Judge John H. Reagan, called Ft. Houston.
Elder John, Silas, and James W. Parker moved on to the head of the Navasota River in present Limestone Co., near the present Groesbeck. Here they erected Parker's Fort, a kind of wooden barracade or wall around their cabins, as a means of protection against hostile Indians.
On the morning of May 9, 1836, Indians attacked the fort and Elder John was killed. He is buried at Fort Parker and is one of the two revolutionary soldiers buried in TX.
Fort Parker has been rebuilt by the State of Texas and completely restored, even to some iron cooking vessels of John Parker, which are in his cabin in the center row of fort cabins.
LaFaye C. Sutkin, Ph. D. has contributed a good deal of material on the Parker Family using her aunt's book "Reagan-Parker Family Genealogy".
John Parker Pension Application - 8-32435. Certificate No. 22-363 was issued October 22, 1833.
Information from application:
Birth: 6 September 1758 in Baltimore County, Maryland.
Service: October 1777 for twelve months under Captain Field in Colonel Slaughter's Virginia Regiment. In the later part of year 1779 served twelve months under Captain Collier in Colonel Alexander's Virginia Regiment.
Pension: $80.00 per annum, act of June 7, 1832, Illinois Agency.
Residence: At enlistment he resided in Culpepper County, Virginia. After the Revolutionary War he resided in Georgia for 17 years, moved from there to Hickman County, Tennessee, and in 1815 moved to the "Territory" which was the State of Illinois and continued to reside there. Present place of residence, Coles county, Illinois.
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- [S467] Mary Nolan, Mary Nolan.
- [SAuth] Jim Carney, compiled by James H Carney [(E-ADDRESS), & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Buderim, Queensland 4556 AUSTRALIA.
- [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 12 Jan 2023), entry for John "Elder" PARKER, person ID LVY2-PT3. (Reliability: 3).
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