Update on William Parker and Lydia Pope family;
Wayne N. Parker P239
Descendants of William Parker
Generation No. 1
1. WILLIAM4 PARKER (JACOB3, P2802, Y-DNA FG#71) was born March 26, 1784 in NC, and died August 19, 1851 in Greene Co.,Indiana. He married LYDIA POPE November 28, 1805, daughter of STEPHEN POPE and MARTHA VICK. She was born December 27, 1787 in NC, and died June 06, 1855 in Greene Co.,Indiana.
More About WILLIAM PARKER:
Census: 1850, Cumberland Co., NC page 128
More About WILLIAM PARKER and LYDIA POPE:
Marriage: November 28, 1805
Children of WILLIAM PARKER and LYDIA POPE are:
i. NANCY5 PARKER, b. August 29, 1806.
ii. MARY PARKER, b. October 12, 1807.
iii. JOSIAH J. PARKER, b. February 19, 1810.
iv. WILLIAM H. PARKER, b. February 27, 1812.
v. DAVID PARKER, b. April 07, 1814.
2. vi. JACOB PARKER, b. August 15, 1816, Cumberland Co., NC; d. Bet. 1860 - 1870, Greene Co., Indiana.
vii. JAMES PARKER, b. December 14, 1820.
viii. JOHN PARKER, b. November 27, 1825.
ix. RICHARD A. PARKER, b. October 30, 1827.
x. ICA PARKER, b. March 02, 1830, Cumberland Co., NC.
Generation No. 2
2. JACOB5 PARKER (WILLIAM4, JACOB3, P2802, Y-DNA FG#71) was born August 15, 1816 in Cumberland Co., NC, and died Bet. 1860 - 1870 in Greene Co., Indiana. He married ELIZA SPENCE February 14, 1843 in Cumberland Co., NC. She was born 1816 in NC, and died Bet. 1860 - 1870 in Greene Co., Indiana.
Notes for JACOB PARKER:
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PARKER-SPENCE FAMILY LETTERS
The following letters were passed down in the family of Susie KIPP, through
her family. Her father was the great grandson of Eliza SPENCE who married
Jacob PARKER of Cumberland Co., N.C. This family then moved to Harnett Co.,
N.C. and then to Indiana.
There are several letters, which will be listed here. Most were written by
William SPENCE, son of Matthew SPENCE, and by Francis Marion PARKER, son of
Jacob and Eliza Spence PARKER.
Please contact Sloan Spence Mason, at SloMas7@aol.com or Susie KIPP, at
Susbarb@aol.com if you have further information.
These are transcribed by Sloan Mason; as written, much of the punctuation is
missing.
(Chalybeate Springs, is a community in Harnett Co., N.C.; settled in 1760.)
(Letter #1)
Chalybeate Springs, N.C.
Oct. 9, 1905
Mr. F. M. PARKER,
No doubt you Will Be Surprised to get a letter from me I hardly no how to
Write to a person I have not seen in so long I don't know as you recollect me
But I do you your father Jacob PARKER Was my own? Uncle and your mother was my
own Aunt therefore you are very near to me cousin Frank PARKERS little girl
got a letter from you so I thought I should write I am 78 years old I have
been to school to your father many a day Before he left this country I have
outlived all of my people I Was the oldest one of the children and they are
all dead But me all of my uncles your fathers Brothers are dead I guess you
are living in a good country this is not a rich place here people Just make a
living this has been a fine timbered country But they are sawing it up fast We
have had a Very Wet Summer here this year Crops are cut off Bad Cotton is the
principal money crop here and that is short Write to me and tell me Something
about Indiana I was in the confederate army and lay in prison 12 months at
Elmira NY But I was a union man I have 3 children living and 3 dead Be sure
and write to me and tell me about your Brothers and Sisters I received a
letter from your sister Amanda in Idaho I would like very much to have your
picture as I hardly Will see you again Well I will close hoping to hear from
you soon I will tell you more about our people next time
From
William SPENCE
Chalybeate Springs
N.C.
(Letter #2)
(Kipling is a community in north central Harnett Co., N.C.)
Bloomfield, Ind.
From L.? Blanche ?
Kipling, N.C.
Aug. 13, 1905
Cousin F.M. PARKER
I Will Write and give you the family record of the PARKER people.
William PARKER and Lydia his wife was married Nov. the 28, 1805.
William PARKER son of Jacob PARKER and Mary his wife was born March 26, 1784.
Lyde wife of William PARKER Decem. The 27, 1787.
William PARKER died Aug. the 19, 1851.
Lyde PARKER wife of William PARKER died June the 6, 1855?
Lyde PARKER was born Decemr. The 27, 1787.
Nancy PARKER was borned Aug. the 29, 1806.
Mary PARKER was borned the Oct. 12?, 1807.
Josiah J. PARKER was bornd February 19, 1810.
William H. PARKER was bornd Feb. 27, 1812.
David PARKER was bornd April 7?, 1814.
Jacob PARKER was bornd Aug. 15, 1816.
William PARKER was bornd Jan. 10? 1819.
James PARKER was bornd Decm. 14, 1820.
John PARKER was bornd Nov. 27, 1825.
Richard A. PARKER was bornd Octo. 30, 1827.
Lea? PARKER was bornd March 2, 1830.
Ange? PARKER was bornd Aug. 14, 1832.
All of your uncle are dead but uncle Richard wife
I will close my letter I want you to answer
Blanch PARKER
F.M. PARKER
Use SPENCE all dead but your uncle and aunts are dead your uncle Mathew has
one boy living andy? Has 2 boys living and 2 girls living uncle buck? SPENCE 4
children aunt ann has one boy living.
N.Z. JOHNSON
------ ----------- not? ---------- send his love and best wishes Write soone
L. B. PARKER
To
F. M. PARKER
(Letter #3)
Kipling, N.C.
Jan. 29, 1907
Dear Cousin,
Your letter of 23rd I received and was glad to hear from you again you said in
your letter how much school do we have we have 4 months school and the negroes
have schools of they own and churches of there own and they are not aloud to
vote and papa has got a patroller wips it is made of rawhide and he says he
has seen a Negro whipen, we keep house She has been dead nearly a year last of
our first snow is own the grown now you said in your letter you were coming
south to visit us you and your wife come on we will meet you at the depo it is
about 5 miles to the nearest depo which is Kipling you be sure to come before
long I want you to come this winter we are looking for you now.
Your Truly
Blanch PARKER
(Letter #4)
April the 25th, 1907
Kipling, NC
Dear Cousin,
I take my pencil in hand to write you a few lines to let you hear from me I am
well and hope you the same I hope you enjoyed your wife to ashvill time? We
had a ciclon 23 of April and tore down won of our neighbors hous broke up all
he had in his house tore down all of it nother man out houses and the fonel of
his house chimneys and another mans house tore of the porch and moved the
house a bout 5 feet and papa has been helping build houses yesterday but the
wind did not hurt us and did not no won got killed as I am getting tired and
sleepy so I will close write soon you had out to come to an seen us last
winter
By by
Blanch PARKER
(Letter #5)
(Parts of letters)
(these letters have to be from William SPENCE)
(page 1)
Chalybeate Springs
Harnett Co., N.C.
Nov. 20, 1905
Mr. Francis M. PARKER,
Dear Cousin
I will try to answer your highly esteemed letter Which I received some time
ago I was glad to hear from you this leaves me Well as usal & I hope this will
find you enjoying good health We are having fine weather here now nice mild
Weather We have had some cold Weather here this fall
Of the old SPENCE place where you was born I pass the place very often this
was Cumberland County when you lived here it was a large county and they
divided it and made Harnett of this part the same old chalk level post office
is up there yet my fathers name was Matthew SPENCE he got killed when I was
sixteen years old I live near Uncle John SPENCE'S old place cousin George
SPENCE his son lives there and owns a lot of land around here and he wants you
to write to him his address is George D. SPENCE Chalybeate Springs, N.C. the
rail road runs through his land there is a fine mineral spring at Chalybeat
Springs this is a nice country here its not a rich country here for farming
But people makes a living ---------------
(Page 3-5)
Christmas was about there only Holiday they went to church on Sunday all that
would they had Patrolers to keep them under and When they caught a Negro
without a pass they whipped him some of the Negro women worked in the fields
and some of them were cooks Negro suffrage has not been a success the most of
them are not informed enough to vote most of them vote the Republican ticket
there has been a good deal of trouble about them in politicks if a white man
voted the republican ticket after the War he was called a Negro I used to be a
democrat But I am a republican now they have got the Negro out of politics
here now they are not allowed to vote without sufficient education they are
disfranchised the best Negroes we have here are the old time slave the young
educated Negro is the meanest we have the Negroes here as a general thing are
Roguish? The penitentiarys are filled up with them there is plenty of them
that will steal before they will workd especially in towns I can not tell you
all I want to in this letter but if you write again I will tell you more next
time.
Yours truly,
William SPENCE
(LETTER #6)
(Parts of letters)
(page 1)
Chalybeate Springs, N.C.
July 24, 1906
F. M. PARKER
Dear Cousin,
In answer to your most Welcome letter Which I received a few days ago I will
Write you a few lines I am well as usual for and old fellow. We are having a
lot of rain in this section of country crops are damaged to some extent and
there has been a lot of hail storms in this State this Summer damaging crops
do you ever have hail storms out in your country.
country But it is full of saw mills cutting the timber up and there is a lot
of cotton factories in this country and new railroads are being built I don't
suppose you recollect me I do you and do you remember my mother Polly SPENCE
She was near 80 years old When she died I have not got any pictures now But
will have soon as I can go to Raleigh that is the nearest place I can get any
taken and that is 25 miles from here I have nto got much news to Write you you
But Will Write more next time.
So I will close for time.
William SPENCE
To
F. M. PARKER
(different hand writing-no date)
(page 3)
Cousin Wm. SPENCE is in the soldiers home now ever thing is dull out here very
few all the young people nearly have all married and left the country and gone
to town to gather I feel some what lonesome tell your wife howdy for me and
tell her to come to old N.C. You all come tell your girls to write to me and
they also are welcome to come to see me
(letter from Blanche PARKER-no date)
(page 4)
if they but only will excuse me for not ans. Your letter sooner I will try to
do better sooner I will try to do better next time my fellow come to see me
last night I tell you he hard to beate hi is good looking and smart with it. I
have done and past sweet sixteen soon will be 17 and then 18 but can't tell
where I will be when them days come so I will have to wring off for this time
by say ans. Soon and a long letter Remember me in your prays.
(page 5)
I hope and trust to the lord we all may meet beyond the great and rolling
river where we all can lay our crowns to gather at Jesus feet it is getting
bed time and I will stop for I am sure you will be glad when you get to the
end but here is the end but ans soon.
As ever your cousin
Blanche PARKER.
(END OF LETTERS)
More About JACOB PARKER:
Census 1: 1850, Cumberland Co., NC page 135
Census 2: 1860, Greene Co.,Indiana page 613
More About JACOB PARKER and ELIZA SPENCE:
Marriage: February 14, 1843, Cumberland Co., NC
Children of JACOB PARKER and ELIZA SPENCE are:
i. FRANCIS MARION6 PARKER, b. February 13, 1844.
ii. ISABEL PARKER, b. 1846.
3. iii. JAMES D. PARKER, b. 1848, Cumberland Co., NC; d. Bet. 1910 - 1920, Greene Co.,Indiana.
iv. JOHN A. PARKER, b. 1850.
v. MARSHALL PARKER, b. March 10, 1852, Cumberland Co., NC; d. January 29, 1894, Indiana; m. REBECCA WOODALL.
Notes for MARSHALL PARKER:
Birth: Mar. 10, 1852
Death: Jan. 29, 1894
Marshall PARKER, died at his home in Lawrence county, Ind., January 29, 1894, after a long illness from lung trouble. He was born in North Carolina, March 10, 1852, and was married to Rebecca WOODALL, Sep. 2, 1869; to this union was born twelve children, nine of which are living. He accepted Christ and was baptized in 1867, and began preaching in 1875. He ws a kind and loving father and husband, and a devoted Christian. Interment in the Dishman cemetery, in Jackson township, Jan 31.
Burial:
Dishman Cemetery
Hobbieville
Greene County
Indiana, USA
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More About MARSHALL PARKER:
Burial: Dishman Cemetery,Hobbieville,Greene Co.,Indiana
vi. SARAH C. PARKER, b. 1854.
vii. MARY PARKER, b. 1856.
Generation No. 3
3. JAMES D.6 PARKER (JACOB5, WILLIAM4, JACOB3, P2802, Y-DNA FG#71) was born 1848 in Cumberland Co., NC, and died Bet. 1910 - 1920 in Greene Co.,Indiana. He married CASSIE JANE FITZPATRICK. She was born January 17, 1847 in Indiana, and died March 15, 1919 in Greene Co., Indiana.
Notes for JAMES D. PARKER:
Birth: unknown
Death: unknown
Family links:
Children:
Cora Frances Parker Boruff (1874 - 1932)*
*Calculated relationship
Note: Co H 31st Regt Ind Inf Civil War
Burial:
Dishman Cemetery
Hobbieville
Greene County
Indiana, USA
Plot:
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More About JAMES D. PARKER:
Burial: Dishman Cemetery,Hobbieville,Greene Co.,Indiana
Census 1: 1880, Greene Co.,Indiana page 176
Census 2: 1850, Cumberland Co., NC page 135
Census 3: 1860, Greene Co.,Indiana page 813
Census 4: 1870, Greene Co.,Indiana page 368
Census 5: 1900, Greene Co.,Indiana page 79
Census 6: 1910, Greene Co.,Indiana page 75
Notes for CASSIE JANE FITZPATRICK:
Birth: Jan. 17, 1847
Death: Mar. 15, 1919
Aunt Jane PARKER, wife of James PARKER, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wess INMAN, at Mountain Springs, Martin County, after a lingering illness of paralysis. She was a good Christian wife, mother and neighbor. She leaves two sons and four daughters. The body was laid to reset in the Dishman Cemetery Tuesday. Mr. PARKER is in a serious condition.
Family links:
Children:
Cora Frances Parker Boruff (1874 - 1932)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Dishman Cemetery
Hobbieville
Greene County
Indiana, USA
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Maintained by: Find A Grave
Originally Created by: Susan (Haldeman) Fowler
Record added: Nov 02, 2005
Find A Grave Memorial# 12237846
More About CASSIE JANE FITZPATRICK:
Burial: Dishman Cemetery,Hobbieville,Greene Co.,Indiana
Children of JAMES PARKER and CASSIE FITZPATRICK are:
i. JOSEPH7 PARKER, b. 1867.
ii. SARAH PARKER, b. 1867.
iii. EDNA PARKER, b. 1870.
iv. HENRY J. PARKER, b. 1872.
v. MAY ELLIS PARKER, b. 1873.
vi. CURA F. PARKER, b. 1874.
vii. ROSE PARKER, b. 1877.
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