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Hello, Mary Beth: If you have not already contacted them, I invite you to review the My Pages here of
1) Marge E. Gish and
2) Karla Renee Marsh Osborne who are both members here at Parker Heritage.
They (and several others to whom you can be referred) have been researching Francis and others. And they have taken differing paths into these family lines, looking into different members of different families.
Good luck.
Patricia Ross Parker
Hello Mary Beth,
Francis Parker Sr., is as far back as I have found so far as I am still looking.
Some of Parker FG#7 family are also in the same area in TN.
Do you have any Parker male cousins who would be willing to do an y-DNA test?
Wayne
Add on to my post.
Jonathan H. Parker the son of Abraham and Phoebe Nichols Parker married Isabella Ferguson.
Wayne
Hello Patricia and Beth,
I just finished updated my file on this family, I was trying to add Francis Parker, Sr. will below but could not.
Francis is the father of Abraham and the grandfather of Goldsberry and Jonathan Hickman Parker.
this is a link to Francis Parker page, Will posted on his page.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=parke...
NOTE: i have two Jonathan Hickman Parker in my file one is part on FG#7 This Jonathan H. Parker is the son of John M. Parker and Susannah D. Wakefiel. Both Jonathan Parker have Smith Co., TN connections.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=parke...
Wayne N. Parker
Hello, Mary Beth:
Yes, I have Abraham as father of both Goldsberry and Jonathan Hickman Parker in my database. Years ago, a random email comment by one of the Parkers from the Macon/Smith Co. TN area said the same thing, and I whipped it into my database before it got away from me. :) Today, sorry to report, I cannot find said email to offer you a citation.
Abraham, Goldsberry, and Johnathan Hickman also appear on early Macon/Smith Co. censuses one after the other, vintage ca. 1820 or 1830. Either the census taker found their farms and enumerated them on site (possible, but not too likely in those days) OR the census was taken on Market Day when everyone came to town as a group. Either way, based upon their ages, their father-son relationships are supported there.
Hope your research goes well.
Patricia Ross Parker
At 7:32pm on December 22, 2013, Patricia Ross Parker said…
Hello, Mary Beth Johns Parker: You do not mention where your Goldsberry Parker and others lived. These are found in my data base:
Goldsberry Parker, b. 1812, married Charlotte Simmons. They lived in Lafayette, Macon Co. Tennessee. One of their six children was a James M. Parker. A son of James M. was James A. who also appears in later censuses when the family lived next door to the grandmother Charlotte Simmons Parker, widow of Goldsberry Parker. This extended family appears in Macon censuses even after the CW in which James M. Parker served the Union. Their area of TN bordered KY and Illinois, and during the Civil War, families had bitterly conflicting Union and Confederate sympathies.
If those are the Parkers you seek, Goldsberry, his brother Hickman who married Isabella Ferguson, and their father Abraham all appear in early TN censuses. Those Parkers came from NC and lived first in the Smith Co. TN area which later grew also into Macon. I do not know which Parker Family YDNA Group the Goldsberry Parker above matches, but a FG#7 is likely through male YDNA or marriages. It can be researched if you are interested.
Several local Macon and Smith Co. families who lived near Goldsberry were those of Dempsey Parker and his wife Frances Hargis. Dempsey Parker's descendants are today YDNA matched into Parker Project Family Group # 7. Also living nearby and believed to be Dempsey's relative was James Parker and wife Sarah Unknown. James Parker attended the Dixon's Creek Missionary Baptist Church along with Dempsey. If this James Parker is part of the Goldsberry line, I do not know. Historically, most of those families had some Cherokee blood. Frances Hargis herself was l/4 Cherokee, and her Hargis family appears to be the only one with any recorded evidence of Cherokee lineage.
Here on Parker Heritage, look into Michael R. Parker's Project Family #7 group for more information on Parkers from that part of Tennessee.
Patricia Ross Parker, Family Group #7 researcher