19 MAY 2020 - Short bio content* from the original creator of the memorial hs been retained, and is below the divider.
06 JUN 2021 - Additional info added with partial transcription from the Sargent Papers (Lincoln Presidential Library) with information about James Parker.** Also information about location of his field stone added to plot section.
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** Following is a partial transcription from the Sargent Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, IL.
JAMES PARKER, the progenitor of this Parker family in Illinois is said to have been a Revolutionary war soldier. The writer has no authentic information as to the State that he served from in the war, nor when he removed west across the mountains. In 1817 the Parker family which possibly consisted of himself and children removed from Butler County, Ohio to the Illinois Territory and settled about ten miles south of where Palestine, Illinois is now in what is at present Crawford County. In the winter of 1825-26 some of his children removed from Crawford County to the north edge of what is now called Parker Prairie, which took its name after this family, here they settled. Four of the children known to have been living in the neighborhood just south of where Westfield is located were, James Jr., George, William and Samuel. There was a Samuel Parker a member of the Good Hope Church south of Westfield at an early period, who Mrs Lydia Eveline (Parker) (Werden) Doty, of Charleston, Ill., thinks was the elder Samuel Parker, and she thinks that he may have gone back to Crawford County where he possibly died.
For information on the family of JAMES PARKER SR., we have the authority of George N. Parker, ..., who made a sketch of the family soon after the turn of this century. ...
George N. Parker was the son of Samuel Parker and Emeline Lanham. This Samuel Parker was the son of Jonathan Parker and Mary Newman, Jonathan being the son of James Parker Sr., ...
... in his sketch that James Parker Sr., who would have been his great grand-father was buried in the Parker Cemetery, Hutton Township. That his grave is on the south side of the cemetery, without a monument, that there is a large rock marking the grave. [Courtesy of Contributor: Tom Hintz (48489689)]
06 JUN 2021 - Additional info added with partial transcription from the Sargent Papers (Lincoln Presidential Library) with information about James Parker.** Also information about location of his field stone added to plot section.
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** Following is a partial transcription from the Sargent Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, IL.
JAMES PARKER, the progenitor of this Parker family in Illinois is said to have been a Revolutionary war soldier. The writer has no authentic information as to the State that he served from in the war, nor when he removed west across the mountains. In 1817 the Parker family which possibly consisted of himself and children removed from Butler County, Ohio to the Illinois Territory and settled about ten miles south of where Palestine, Illinois is now in what is at present Crawford County. In the winter of 1825-26 some of his children removed from Crawford County to the north edge of what is now called Parker Prairie, which took its name after this family, here they settled. Four of the children known to have been living in the neighborhood just south of where Westfield is located were, James Jr., George, William and Samuel. There was a Samuel Parker a member of the Good Hope Church south of Westfield at an early period, who Mrs Lydia Eveline (Parker) (Werden) Doty, of Charleston, Ill., thinks was the elder Samuel Parker, and she thinks that he may have gone back to Crawford County where he possibly died.
For information on the family of JAMES PARKER SR., we have the authority of George N. Parker, ..., who made a sketch of the family soon after the turn of this century. ...
George N. Parker was the son of Samuel Parker and Emeline Lanham. This Samuel Parker was the son of Jonathan Parker and Mary Newman, Jonathan being the son of James Parker Sr., ...
... in his sketch that James Parker Sr., who would have been his great grand-father was buried in the Parker Cemetery, Hutton Township. That his grave is on the south side of the cemetery, without a monument, that there is a large rock marking the grave. [Courtesy of Contributor: Tom Hintz (48489689)]
19 MAY 2020 - Short bio content* from the original creator of the memorial hs been retained, and is below the divider.
06 JUN 2021 - Additional info added with partial transcription from the Sargent Papers (Lincoln Presidential Library) with information about James Parker.** Also information about location of his field stone added to plot section.
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** Following is a partial transcription from the Sargent Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, IL.
JAMES PARKER, the progenitor of this Parker family in Illinois is said to have been a Revolutionary war soldier. The writer has no authentic information as to the State that he served from in the war, nor when he removed west across the mountains. In 1817 the Parker family which possibly consisted of himself and children removed from Butler County, Ohio to the Illinois Territory and settled about ten miles south of where Palestine, Illinois is now in what is at present Crawford County. In the winter of 1825-26 some of his children removed from Crawford County to the north edge of what is now called Parker Prairie, which took its name after this family, here they settled. Four of the children known to have been living in the neighborhood just south of where Westfield is located were, James Jr., George, William and Samuel. There was a Samuel Parker a member of the Good Hope Church south of Westfield at an early period, who Mrs Lydia Eveline (Parker) (Werden) Doty, of Charleston, Ill., thinks was the elder Samuel Parker, and she thinks that he may have gone back to Crawford County where he possibly died.
For information on the family of JAMES PARKER SR., we have the authority of George N. Parker, ..., who made a sketch of the family soon after the turn of this century. ...
George N. Parker was the son of Samuel Parker and Emeline Lanham. This Samuel Parker was the son of Jonathan Parker and Mary Newman, Jonathan being the son of James Parker Sr., ...
... in his sketch that James Parker Sr., who would have been his great grand-father was buried in the Parker Cemetery, Hutton Township. That his grave is on the south side of the cemetery, without a monument, that there is a large rock marking the grave. [Courtesy of Contributor: Tom Hintz (48489689)]
06 JUN 2021 - Additional info added with partial transcription from the Sargent Papers (Lincoln Presidential Library) with information about James Parker.** Also information about location of his field stone added to plot section.
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** Following is a partial transcription from the Sargent Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, IL.
JAMES PARKER, the progenitor of this Parker family in Illinois is said to have been a Revolutionary war soldier. The writer has no authentic information as to the State that he served from in the war, nor when he removed west across the mountains. In 1817 the Parker family which possibly consisted of himself and children removed from Butler County, Ohio to the Illinois Territory and settled about ten miles south of where Palestine, Illinois is now in what is at present Crawford County. In the winter of 1825-26 some of his children removed from Crawford County to the north edge of what is now called Parker Prairie, which took its name after this family, here they settled. Four of the children known to have been living in the neighborhood just south of where Westfield is located were, James Jr., George, William and Samuel. There was a Samuel Parker a member of the Good Hope Church south of Westfield at an early period, who Mrs Lydia Eveline (Parker) (Werden) Doty, of Charleston, Ill., thinks was the elder Samuel Parker, and she thinks that he may have gone back to Crawford County where he possibly died.
For information on the family of JAMES PARKER SR., we have the authority of George N. Parker, ..., who made a sketch of the family soon after the turn of this century. ...
George N. Parker was the son of Samuel Parker and Emeline Lanham. This Samuel Parker was the son of Jonathan Parker and Mary Newman, Jonathan being the son of James Parker Sr., ...
... in his sketch that James Parker Sr., who would have been his great grand-father was buried in the Parker Cemetery, Hutton Township. That his grave is on the south side of the cemetery, without a monument, that there is a large rock marking the grave. [Courtesy of Contributor: Tom Hintz (48489689)]
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