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An open letter to all members of Parker Heritage.

Posted by Wayne N. Parker on January 21, 2017 at 6:42pm in General Chat

  An open letter to all members of Parker Heritage.

I want to encourage all of you who have not posted in a while to do so as your input is very valuable to keep Parker genealogy growing and helping to expand our collective knowledge.

  OK I can hear some of you saying but I post and no one ever replies BUT how many of you ( other that a very small group of us out of 3994 members) have went out of you way lately to select an post at random and see if you can help that Parker researcher???

  This web site is one of the very few free Parker genealogy sites left.

  We need to make Parker Heritage web site the go to place for Parker genealogy research.

  If anyone has any thoughts or ideas on what you want or need from Parker Heritage please let us know.

Wayne

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  • Penny Gault August 2, 2017 at 10:37am
    I am fairly new to this group (FG#7)but I am a descendant of Jesse Parker and Sara Wiley. I have proofs back to Sarah Elizabeth (Sally) Parker Schrier but cannot connect her to Jesse. She was part of his 1st family and not listed by name in his will. I have a document where Jesse sold a large amount of land to Sarah and her husband James Schrier out of his deep feelings for them, but that is all I can find. Any help will be appreciated
    • Wayne N. Parker > Penny Gault August 2, 2017 at 5:16pm
      Hi Penny,
      I know there researchers of Jesse Parker here on PH that know more that I do on his family.
      This is what I have.
      Wayne

      Re: Jesse Parker Schrier, question.
      Carolyn Maloney (View posts)
      Posted: 09 Mar 2006 01:48PM
      Classification: Query
      Edited: 07 Jul 2006 12:40AM
      Surnames: Parker
      see Texas Archives regarding the Parkers..
      Jesse Parker's best friend was James Schrier who married his daughter, who was one of the first 7 children of Sarah and Jesse Parker.

      PARKER, JESSE (ca. 1776-1849). Jesse Parker, soldier, pioneer, and early Texas colonist, was probably born in North Carolina around 1776. He moved around 1798 to Georgia and then in 1809 to St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, where he volunteered for ninety days' service in the Thirteenth Louisiana Regiment in the War of 1812. In 1822 he moved his family to Texas and farmed a Spanish land grant near the site of Huntsville as a member of Vehlein's colony (see VEHLEIN, JOSEPH). He attended the Convention of 1832qv at San Felipe de Austin as a representative of the Sabine District. He received a land grant of one league, approved on February 11, 1835. He was on the Old Three Hundredqv original tax list of Washington County in 1837. On December 15, 1837, he was elected by the Republic of Texasqv legislature to be associate land commissioner for Montgomery County, the last public office he held. His name is on a monument at Franklinton, Washington Parish, Louisiana, for the War of 1812, and on a monument at the courthouse in Hemphill, Texas, honoring prominent men of the area. A Texas Historical Commissionqv marker was dedicated on his grave on March 17, 1981. Jesse Parker married a woman named Sarah around 1798, and they had seven children. She died in the spring of 1828 in East Texas. There he married Elizabeth Barker in January 1829, and they also had seven children. The eldest son, Mathew (Matthew) Arnold, was in the Texas army during the Texas Revolutionqv and served as the first county judge of Sabine County. Wiley, the second son, served in the Texas army and was in Wier's detachments at Harrisburg during the battle of San Jacinto.qv Parker died on May 27, 1849. His wife died on March 4, 1898. Both were buried in a family cemetery near their home. On October 20, 1979, their graves were moved to the lot of their youngest son, Samuel David, at Oakwood Cemetery, Huntsville, Texas.

      BIBLIOGRAPHY: "Jesse Parker, Matthew Parker, and Elijah Isaacks," Texana 5 (Summer 1967). Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941).




      Re: Jesse Parker Schrier
      Carolyn Maloney (View posts)
      Posted: 09 Mar 2006 02:08PM
      Classification: Query
      Actually I have some more.. another page in the Texas History thing. He was a very recognized Hero of Texas.

      Extracted from "Walker County, Texas a History", Walker County> Genealogical Society and Walker County historical Commission, 1986

      Jessie Parker--Texas Pioneer
      Click Here to see his Historical Marker
      Jessie Parker was a farmer, soldier, early Texas pioneer, and raised > cattle, using his initials "JP" as a stock brand. He moved to Franklin County, Georgia, on Nails Creek about 1798 and the Governor of Georgia signed a passport 30 March 1809 for him through the Creek Indian Nation. Settling west of the Pearl River, arriving 10 August 1809 in now Franklin County, Louisiana. In 1822, he moved across the Sabine to near where Hemphill is today, arriving 12 March. He received a land grant in Now Walker County 11 February 1835 for one league of land, starting about two miles northeast of the Walker County Courthouse. About 1798 he married SARAH (maybe WILEY) and they had six children in Georgia and one in Louisiana.
      i. Sara Elizabeth (1798-1856)married 1817 to James Schrier, and they moved to Walker County. They had ten children: Jesse James Calihan, William, Elizabeth, Lurana, John, Wiley R., M.B. Lamar, Harvey N., and Louisiana.

      ii. Mathew Arnold (17 May 1801 - 19__) married Mary Isaacs (c1824) and they had 12 children: Mahala, Jesse, Morris Moore, Perry, Wiley Jefferson, Washington (Wilson) Laffeyette, Andrew Jackson, Alexander Hamilton, Sarah Elizabeth, William (Willis) Houston, Amanda, Mary (Molly) Samantha. After the death of Mary in 1845, Cherokee County, he married Elizabeth Lowe, and they had 4 children: Rebecca, Susan, Isaac Lowe and Margaret Ann.

      iii. Wiley Parker (c 1803 - 10 March 1847)

      iv. Rebecca (1805- c1849)

      v. and vi girls born 1807 and 1809 and died before 1820

      vii. Elizabeth born 12 April 1812, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana and married 13 January 1829 , in East Texas to Philip Haddix Coe, and they had 12 children: Rachel, Mary, Sarah Adeline, Elizabeth, Martha Ann, Louisa Jane (Jennie), Philip Houston, who died 1871 in Abilene, KS, Deliah, Eliza Ann, Hattie (Harriett) A., Georgianna (Georgie), Gabriel Houston. Elizabeth Ann died 16 March 1866 at Monthalia, Coe Valley, Gonzales County, Texas and is buried in the family cemetery.

      After Sarah died, Jesse married ELIZABETH BARKER in January 1829 and they had seven children:

      i. Jesse J. (died 8 November 1862, Civil War) married Nancy Ann Larrison.

      ii. Eliza (Louisa) T. married 17 December 1850 to Richard Ira Plummer and they had five children: Sarah Jane, Thadeus E., Mary Elizabeth, Richard Ira Jr. and Isaac Spurgin.

      iii. Mary Ann ,married Andrew Jackson Cox January 1. 1851. Walker County. and they had Mary (Molly) Ann and Elizabeth/ Andrew died and she ,married E. M. Berry.

      iv. REBECCA (BECKY) married Francis Marion Brown on 14 February 1856, and they had 12 children: ALONZO (Lonnie), John (Jack), Mamie, Annie, Bettie, and a twin that died, Ludie, Carl, David, Benton and three others who died at infants.

      v. Isaac Newton married 24 December 1867 to Mary Caroline Ashley, and they had nine children: Edmund, Frank P., Claude, Roberta, Robert, Jesse, Eliza, Houston and Linda Louise. Linda Louise died in Trinity after 1975. After Mary Caroline died Isaac Newton married Lou C. Palmer in 1905.

      vi. Nancy T. married Daniel Green McMillian and had Doll and Addie, per Birdie Parker Kopisch;

      vii. Samuel David b. 17 January 1846 and died 8 June 1912 in Walker County married Mary (Mollie) Ella Skelton on 15 December 1877 and they had 9 children: Melton, Earnest, Jessie Olivia, Arthur Lee, a baby girl died as an infant, William c., Josephine Prince, Ruby and Birdie died 16 February 1982, Temple, Texas and Ruby lives in Temple now 14 July 1984.

      JESSE PARKER raised cattle, horses, sheep, hogs, and farmed in Walker County. he also bought and sold land for a living. When he died he had several thousand acres of land in Walker, Houston, and Freestone Counties. he died 27 May 1849 at home and was buried near his home in the family cemetery. his wife Elizabeth was buried by him when she died 4 March 1898, their graves were moved to Oakwood Cemetery in Huntsville on 20 October 1979, on their son Samuel David's lot. On 17 March 1981, a Texas State Marker was dedicated on his grave. his name is on a monument at Franklinton, Washington Parish, Louisiana for War of 1812, and on a monument at Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas for Sabine representative in 1832.

      **********

      > Bibliography: Hazel Page Mullis, "Texana, Vol. B. no. 2, 441, 1967; Veterans Files, War of 1812, Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Louisiana tax list, St. Tammany Parish, 1811 and 1812, 2; George Lewis Crocket, "Two Centuries in East Texas", 162, 1962; Dabney White, ED "East Texas, Its History and Its Markers, Sabine County, Texas, Vol. 1 and 3, p. 1222 and 1239, and 94. 1940; Worth S. Ray, "Austin Colony Pioneers", 177-178; "The Journals of the Convention of 1832"; "Biographical Directory of the Texas Conventions and Congresses, 149, 1941; William Moses Jones, "Texas Testimony Stone", 106, 1952, and "Texas History Carved in Stone", 107, 301, 1958; "Texas State Historical Markers; Probate Minutes (Walker County, Texas); 1820 Census, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, 26, and Jesse P. M. Lappe "Parker Family History" 28; Mary B. Bryan, "Passports Issued by Governors of Georgia 1785, 1809, National Genealogical Society Special Publication No 21, 52, 1959. Field notes (Texas State Land Office Spanish Archives); and "An Abstract of Original Titles of Record 132, 1938, (Reproduction 1964).

      by B. Elmer Spradley
      • Penny Gault > Wayne N. Parker August 2, 2017 at 7:46pm
        Thank you
  • sue fitzgerald July 27, 2017 at 10:47am
    If anyone has information or documentation of Coshea and Jesse Parker in the Carolinas please post. On the last census I researched again on the same page are listed Wiley and Willie Parker. Willie is 19 years old and birth place is listed as Texas. This would have placed them inTexas in the 1830's. Also any information on Daniel Reynolds Headright land would be helpful.
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