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John "Elder" PARKER

John "Elder" PARKER[1, 2]

Male 1758 - 1836  (77 years)

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  • Name John "Elder" PARKER 
    Nickname Elder 
    Born 15 Sep 1758  Baltimore, Maryland, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Male 
    FamilySearch ID LVY2-PT3 
    MilitaryService 30 Jul 1777  [3
    MilitaryService 4 Mar 1831  Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Name Elder 
    Name John PARKER  [3
    Name Rev John PARKER  [3
    _UID 606D3AF9A5BB4002AA9F1DBD86D1C31FFEC3 
    Buried 1836  Fort Parker Memorial Park, Groesbeck, Limestone, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Died 19 May 1836  Fort Parker, Limestone, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I2295  Carney Wehofer Feb 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 12 Jan 2023 

    Father Nathaniel PARKER,   b. 1729, Maryland, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1790, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years) 
    Mother Ann Marie CLAYTON,   b. 1 Jan 1726, Glouchester County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jan 1790, Hampshire County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years) 
    Married Abt 1744  Culpepper County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1120  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Married 1711-1779  , Culpepper, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F1123  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Sarah "Salllie" WHITE,   b. 10 Jul 1759, Culpepper County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 6 Nov 1779  Culpeper, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Rev Daniel Boone PARKER,   b. 6 Apr 1781, Culpeper, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Dec 1844, Elkhart, Anderson, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 63 years)
     2. Holly PARKER,   b. Abt 1783, Culpepper Co., Va. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Abigail Sarah PARKER,   b. Abt 1784, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1844, Elkhart, Anderson, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 60 years)
     4. Mary Jane PARKER,   b. 6 Mar 1785, Elbert, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Dec 1846, Jeffersontown, Jefferson, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years)
     5. John Andrew PARKER, II,   b. Abt 1786, Culpeper, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Mar 1830, Cape Girardeau, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 44 years)
     6. Benjamin F W PARKER, Sr,   b. 13 May 1788, Elbert, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 May 1836, Fort Parker, Limestone, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 48 years)
     7. Phoebe PARKER,   b. 4 Jul 1790, Culpeper, Culpeper, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Jul 1863, Anderson, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
     8. Isaac Duke PARKER, Sr,   b. 7 Apr 1793, Elberton, Elbert County, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Apr 1883, Weatherford, Parker County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 90 years)
     9. Joseph Allen PARKER,   b. 1795, Culpeper, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Nov 1839, Houston, Harris, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 44 years)
     10. Phoebe PARKER,   b. 4 Jul 1796, Elbert, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Jul 1863, Edom, Van Zandt, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)
     11. James Williams PARKER,   b. 4 Jul 1797, Franklin, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1864, Houston, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)
     12. Nathaniel PARKER,   b. 1 Jun 1799, Franklin, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Sep 1855, Charleston, Coles, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years)
     13. Silas Mercer PARKER,   b. 5 May 1804,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 12 Jan 2023 
    Family ID F1122  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • 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.

  • Sources 
    1. [S467] Mary Nolan, Mary Nolan.

    2. [SAuth] Jim Carney, compiled by James H Carney [(E-ADDRESS), & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Buderim, Queensland 4556 AUSTRALIA.

    3. [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).