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Ray Parker -- Generation 4

Thomas Bryant Parker b. 10/15/1798 in Grayson Co. Va D. 7/27/1850 in Kanesville, Iowa

Catherine Hammett b. 1/19/1806 Howard Missouri M. 10/27/1825 in Howard Mo.

1. Rebecca Snodgrass Parker b. 10/10/1826 Palmyra Mo.
2. John Fletcher Parker b. 9/24/1828
3. William Hammett Parker b. 9/25/1830

M. 2 nd Martha Ann Nelson b. 10/17/1818 in Fayette Co. Kentucky M. 10/25/1835 in Palmyra Mo.

1. Robert Pollock Parker b. 11/15/1836 in Palmyra, Mo.
2. Thomas Bryant Parker II, b. 3/16/1838
3. Ambrose Nelson Parker b. 10/15/1839
4. Joseph Faulkner Parker b. 4/7/1841 Palymra Mo. D. 1/14/1936 in Joseph, Sevier Co. Utah
5. Elizabeth Joyce Parker b. 10/23/1842
6. Alma Mormom Parker b. 1/9/1844 in Palmyra, Mo.
7. Exile Liberty Parker b. 3/29/1846 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Ill.
8. Margaret Parker b. 8/26/1848 in Pioneer Trail, Nebraska

Note: Source Rootsweb.com and FamilySearch.com Source: Rootsweb by njpatrn@aol.com Patricia. bmills@msn.com Bryant Mills

Note: Thomas Bryant Parker is believed to be the son of William Parker. He is a descendant of John Parker I in any case thorough one of his sons. They were the only Parkers in Grayson Co. Va at the time. Note: Joseph Faulkner Parker b. 1841 related a visit to Missouri by George Parker to see his brother Thomas Bryant Parker before Thomas Bryant Parker’s death in 1850 to his descendants. George Parker’s sister Lydia Parker Adams died in Buchanan Co. Missouri in September, 1841 after just arriving in Missouri from NC.

Joshua Parker Jr. B. 4/13/1790 in Grayson Co. Va. D. 7/24/1838 in Washington Co. Texas

buried Independence, Texas

1. Nancy Whiteside b. unk D. unk M. 1828
2. Sarah Ann Parker b. 6/3/1829 D. 5/8/1884
3. James Wilson Parker b. 2/19/1832 D. 1`/19/1916 M. C1865 Katherine unk
4. John Tacitus Parker b. C1834

Note: Joshua came to Texas as a single man in Steven Austin's colony of 300. Austin was supposed to be settling families in what was then Mexican territory. The initial land grant in the colony was joint with a William Parks. Joshua married Nancy Whiteside around 1828. Nancy was the daughter of another of the original colony who died in the process of getting settled in Texas .

The Parker Family History

as I have heard it - by John Wilson Parker, Jr.

"My great grandfather, Josh Parker came to Texas in 1821 among the first four hundred Anglo settlers to enter. Shortly after coming to Texas he married a young woman by the name of Whiteside and they settled near Washington on the Brazos . They had two children; first a daughter by the name of Sarah Parker and a son by the name of James (Whiteside?) Wilson Parker. Grandfather was born February 19, 1832. He had his citizenship changed for him twice before he came of age. Once at age four years when he became a Texan and then an American Citizen by annexation in 1845. from "Floyd Spencer" FloydorDebbie-Spencer@worldnet.att.net

**** The Texas online handbook for Joshua Parker
PARKER, JOSHUA (1790-1838). Joshua Parker, member of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundredqv colonists, was born on April 13, 1790, in Grayson County, Virginia. He was living in Arkansas in 1821, when he became acquainted with Moses Austin and enrolled in the proposed Austin colony in Texas. He and his colonist partner William Parks received title to a sitioqv of land in what is now Wharton County on July 24, 1824. Parker's home place on Palmetto Creek was adjacent to Stephen F. Austin's headquarters. The census of 1826 listed Parker as a farmer and stock man, a single man aged between twenty-five and forty. He married NANCY SAPHRONIA BELL in 1828. Evidently he dealt extensively in livestock. He bought a mule from James Gaines in 1824, ordered horses from Josiah H. Bell in 1826, had Austin buy him an ox ring from Nicholas Clopper in August 1826, and had a quarrel with Aylett C. Buckner while he and Buckner were driving a herd of horses from the Rio Grande. In November 1830 Parker was listed among persons who must comply with the conditions of their grants or have their lots sold by the ayuntamientoqv of San Felipe. He was an acquaintance of William B. Travis at San Felipe in 1833. Parker died on July 24, 1838, at Independence, Texas.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Austin Papers (3 vols., Washington: GPO, 1924-28). Lester G. Bugbee, "The Old Three Hundred: A List of Settlers in Austin's First Colony," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 1 (October 1897). Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Founders and Patriots of the Republic of Texas (Austin, 1963-). J. H. Kuykendall, "Reminiscences of Early Texans," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 6-7 (January, April, July 1903). Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Gammel, 1900; rpt., Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983). William Barret Travis, Diary, ed. Robert E. Davis (Waco: Texian, 1966). Texas Gazette, October 9, 1830

Lydia Parker B. est 1793 in NC D. 9/1841 in Buchanan Co. St. Josephs, Missouri M. 12/13/1813 in Surry Co. NC

George Adams b. 10/7/1771 in NC, D. 3/21/1827 in Surry Co. NC ( Lydia was his 3 rd wife)

• Hannah Adams b.4/12/1816 D. 6/9/1900 M. 1/7/1835 Thomas Hickman b. 9/22/1811, moved to Missouri in 1841
• Allen Adams b. 1815 married Judith, C1835 moved to Grayson Co. Va.
• George Adams Jr. b. 1818 married Sara Todd, in 1837
• Agatha Adams b. 1814 married Bartholomew Hawley,in Missouri 9/12/1841, moved to Oregon
• Ann Adams b. 1825 D. unk M. 12/24/1841 David McVey in Buchanan Co. Missouri.

Marriage Bond for Lydia Parker and George Adams, December 31, 1813, Grandfather William Vestal was the bondsman for my Grandfather George Adams’ marriage to my Aunt Lydia Parker.

Lydia Parker Adams sold the George Adams estate land to son in-law George Parker in 1841, she and son George Adams Jr. Daughter Hannah and husband Thomas Hickman, daughter Agatha Adams and daughter Ann Adams went to Buchanan County, St Josephs, Missouri. Lydia Parker Adams died there in late 1841, in 1843 George Adams Jr. and Sarah Todd and family returned to NC. Agatha and Ann married in Missouri in 1841/1842. Lydia Parker Adams’ estate was probated in 1841 in Buchanan Co. Missouri, George Adams Jr. and Thomas Hickman administrators.

Note: Lydia Parker is believed to be the daughter of William Parker, She appears to have been named for her mother Elizabeth Lydia Parker and grandmother Lydia Allen Bryant Source Surry County marriage bond 1813, George Adam’s will 1827, Parker Family History by Kay Brown rbrown13@triad.rr.com Adams Family History Budd Adams BuddAdams@aol.com .

Rebekah Parker b. 1803 in VA D. aft 1880 M. 8/6/1822, dt. William Parker and Elizabeth Lydia Bryant in Surry Co. NC

Jesse Adams b. 1801 D. C1878 son John Adams and Elizabeth Fleming in Surry Co. NC John and Elizabeth were Ray Parker’s uncle and aunt from his Adams & Fleming Lines.

• Sarah Adams b. 1823 D. bef 1857 M. 2/8/1848 Winston Brown
• Mary Adams b. 1825
• Elizabeth Adams b. 1828 D. Unk M. 3/6/1845 John Henry Dinkins, moved to Ohio after 1870 then to Ind by 1872 Elizabeth was on the 1880 and 1900 Henry Co. Ind Census Reports John Henry Dinkins was the son of William Dinkins b.1799
• George M. Adams b. 1829 D. aft 1880 M. 4/11/1852 Mary Melissa Hutchens. He donated the land for the Union Grove Baptist Church, Boonville, NC
• Rebecca Adams b. 1832 D. aft 1900 M. William Canady was on the 1900 Henry Co. Ind Census with Elizabeth Dinkins
• Abigail Adams b. 1833 D. M. 2/20/1850 Jackson Caudle, son William Caudle and Nancy Brown
• Lousiana Adams b. 1835 D. M. 6/11/1861 Jonathan Brown went to New Castle Indiana
• Jesse Adams Jr. b. 1838 D. M. 3/17/1858 Sarah J. Adams
• Stephen H. Adams b. 1840 D. 4/23/1917 Henry Co Ind M. 1/22/1869 Lydia Dickerson b. 5/25/1852 D. 5/25/1925
• Franklin Adams b. 1842 in Surry Co. NC D. unk M. unk
• Elam Jesse Adams b. 2/14/1844 in Grayson Co. Va D. 3/17/1921 M. 1 st 3/3/1867 Sabra Reece, 2 nd 11/10/1875 Lucy Reece both dts of Wiley Reece and Amenda Hinshaw Reece He died in Rogers, Arkansas in 1921. Was a Baptist Minister.
• Sarah Adams b. 1848, in Surry Co. NC D. unk. M. Unk.

One item of note above: Elam Jesse Adams was born in Grayson Co. Va, his family lived there for a couple of years before returning to Surry/Yadkin Co. NC. This again demonstrates the relationships between the Grayson and Surry County Lines in this document.

Sources: Harrell G. Miller "Harrell G. Miller" Harrell.Jan.Miller@Worldnet.att.net Elem Jesse Adams descendant, Alvin Caudle b. 1922 G-Grandson of Rebekah Parker and Jesse Adams descendant through Abigail Adams and Jackson Caudle. Various Census Reports & Marriage Bonds, Adams Family History. Note: Rebekah Parker was named after her aunt Rebekah Bryant the daughter of John Bryant and Lydia Allen Bryant. Jesse and Rebekah Parker Adams went to New Castle, Ind. In the early 1870’s, in September of 1874 George Parker sent them money to pay for their train tickets back to Greensboro, NC. This is based on a letter written by Jesse and Rebekah Parker Adams to Elam Jesse Adams kept by Noah Parker and son Sebon Parker. They returned to NC in October of 1874. Jesse Adams died before 1880, on the 1880 Yadkin County Census, Rebekah Parker is living with her Grandson Samuel S. Adams off of Rockett Road in the Fall Creek Township. Updates on Ellizabeth Adams Dinkins, Rebecca Adams Canady and Stephen Adams in Henry Co. Ind from Jennifer Stephenandjenni@aol.com

George Parker b. 1805 D. 3/1/1880 son William Parker & Elizabeth Lydia Bryant in Grayson Co. Va

Kesiah Adams b. 1811 D. 1891 M. 1832 dt. George Adams & Elizabeth Martin Thornton in Surry Co. NC.

• Thomas B. Parker b. 10/1834 D. 6/23/1910 M. 1856 Rhoda Millsap dt Sarah Hutchens & Jonathan Millsap
• Hannah Parker b. 1836 D. unk M. unk
• Elizabeth Parker b. 1838 D. unk M. unk
• Sarah Parker b. 1/15/1841 D. 8/11/1916 M. a Poindexter burial at Union Hill Methodist Church East Bend, NC
• William R. Parker b. 1842 D. bef 1870 M. unk
• George M. Parker b. 10/16/1844 D. unk M. 8/16/1869 Elizabeth Shore dt. John and Mary Shore.
• Mary E. Parker b. 1846 D. 12/22/1913 never married
• Daniel Jasper Parker b. 7/10/1848 D. 11/1882 never married
• Noah Wilson Parker b. 9/20/1850 D. 8/16/1927 M. 1/16/1873 Tennessee Stinson dt. Of Nathan Stinson And Leah Reece

Note: George Parker owned 200 acres in 1835 in Surry Co. NC, purchased 210 acres more before 1851, Thomas B. Parker seems to have been named after his Uncle Thomas Bryant Parker.

Will of George Parker dated the 4 th day of March, 1878, his neighbor William Gibbs was a witness as was Jesse Franklin Davis, my Uncle Josiah Davis’s son.

Note: Source Parker Family History, Parker Family Bible, Census Reports, Marriage Bonds, Deeds and Land Tax Records.

George Parker’s death notice states that he had been a resident of Surry/Yadkin Co, NC for 52 years. He Came to the area after the death of his Sister Lydia Parker Adam’s Husband George Adam’s death in 1827 and helped her raise her family before marrying stepdaughter Kesiah Adams in 1833. He is listed as the head of household on the 1830 Surry Co. Census Report with Lydia Parker Adams and her children present in the household. In 1833 he married Kesiah Adams b. 1811 the daughter of George Adams’ second wife Elizabeth Martin Thornton.

Kesiah Parker Household on the 1880 Census Report below:

Edmond Parker b. 1793 D. in Kansas Surry Co. NC m. 3/4/1819 Nancy Hickman b. 1802 in Grayson Co. Va Moved to Buchanan Co. Missouri C1830 after the birth of their fourth child. Note I only have two children for this family there must be several more including three Born between 1819 and 1830 in Surry co. NC.

• Clark L. Parker b. 2/22/1825 in Surry Co. NC D. 1/2/1915 Portland Ore M. 3/5/1857 Melissa Griffeth b. 5/1/1839 in KY
• Francis Parker b. 1831 in NC D. unk M. Lewis Ohlson
• Darius C. Parker b. 1837 in NC.
• Sophina Parker b. 8/1/1839NC M. 1856 at Doniphan, KS to Isham H. Parker b. 4/14/1836 (first cousins)
• Rebecca Parker b. 1841 in Buchanan Co. MO. M. Louis Maimbourg b. 1831 in France moved to Kansas
• Edmond R. Parker b. 1843 Buchanan Co. MO.
• Columbus M. Parker b. 1846 Buchanan Co. MO M. Christina Roll b. 1852 Ky. moved to Mission, Brown Co. KS
• Zachariah Parker b. 1849in Buchanan Co. MO.
• Andrew Parker b. 1850 in Buchanan Co. MO.

Information on this family from "Bob Carson" carson@willapabay.org and Carol Snyder.who says Edmond moved to Missouri after the birth of his fourth child. We suspect that there were children born before Clark L. Parker in 1825, folks did not normally wait until 6 years after marriage to start a family. Nancy Hickman Parker age 77 is living in the C. M.( Columbus) Parker household on the 1880 Mission, Brown Co. KS census report.

Margaret Peggy Parker, b. 1799 m. 1818 Abraham Knot

• Joseph Knott b. b. 1824 M. Elizabeth children John age 2, Mary E. age 1
• Rebecca Knott b. 1835
• Euphemia Knott b. 1837 M. 1 st Lewis Speers, M 2 nd James Phillips
• Hugh H. Knott b. 1839

Source 1850 Marion, Lawrence Co. Indiana Census Report

Mary Parker b. abt C1796 m. abt. 1811 Benjamin Hinshaw,b. C1782 d. 1829 son Thomas Hinshaw & Hannah Seasfield

• Lorenzo P. Hinshaw b. 1812 D. 2/21/1857 Alamance Co. NC. M. C1833 Rebecca Hinshaw b. 1809 in Chatham Co. NC. In 1850 this family was living in Chatham Co. children, Brazillai age 15, Penelope age 13, Archibald age 9, Elizabeth age 5, Jesse age 3.
• Rebecca Hinshaw b. C1814
• William Hinshaw b. C1817
• James Hinshaw b. C1819 Surry Co. NC D. bef 1868 M. 11/19/1840 in Preble Co. Ohio, Susannah Osborn b. 6/29/1821 In 1850 this family was living in Warren Co. Ill. Children Margaret age 9, Mary E. age 7, William age 2

Children from Benjamin Hinhaw’s will prepared 7/18/1829, his brother in-law Edmond (Ed) Parker was a witness to his will.

Sources Hinshaw Family Association, Parker Family History, Ray Parker research. 1850 Federal Census Report.

William Riley Parker b. 1/7/1801 Surry Co. NC.D. in Kansas M. 11/25/1826 Martha Hodges b. 1810 D. aft 1880 Moved

To Lawrence Co. Indiana by ox team in 1837.

Evaline Parker b.9/17/1828 Surry Co. NC D. 11/1/1902 Hanna City, Ill M. 1/8/1842 Joseph Pierce b. 3/3/1818 in

Mecklenburg Co VA D. 5/25/1901

Columbus Franklin Parker b. 12/17/1829 Surry Co. NC. D. 8/3/1919 Tulsa, Ok M. 4/12/1849 Mary Kinnick in Lawrence Co.

Indiana. She was born 5/22/1834 D. 9/4/1934

Elizabeth R. Parker b. 1831 Surry Co. NC D. 1934 in Hiawatha, Brown Co.KS M. 1/7/1851 William Harryman

William E. Parker b. 1/5/1833 Surry Co. NC D. unk M. 2/23/1854 Dianthia Hurt M 2 nd Mary went to Kansas

Isham H. Parker b. 4/14/1836 Surry Co. NC D. 4/6/1895 Teller Co. M. 1856 Sophina Parker b. 8/1/1839

John Parker b. 11/18/1837 in Lawrence Ind D. 9/19/1902 M. 7/30/1868 in White Cloud KS, Nancy Ann R. Wineinger

Sarah A. Parker b. 8/25/1841 Springville Ind, D.1/17/1927 White Cloud, KS m. 2/5/1857 KS, John Pierson b. 12/26/1837

Bedford IN.

Thomas Winston Parker b. 9/4/1848 Lawrence Ind D. 12/10/1890 in Chase, Rice Co. Kansas M. Clara b. 1855 MO.

Thomas Winston Parker is on the 1880 Iowa, Duplan, KS Census with mother Martha Parker age 69 in the household, wife Clara and children Lora Parker age 5 and Wilburn Parker age 2 both born in KS.

Joseph William Parker b. 1805 D. 12/18/1880 m. 1830 Mary Ann Hickman b. 1812 in Grayson Co. VA D. 8/19/1892

This family lived in the White Plains Community, in Surry Co. NC.

Samuel Parker b. 1834 D. 4/4/1907 Stillwater, OK. M. 1864 Mary Ann Howard b. 1843, went to Kansas and on to Ok

William W. Parker b. 1837 D. 4/4/1907 Stillwater Ok. M. 3/13/1859 Sarah Ann Taylor went to OK.

Sarah Ann Parker b. 1839 Surry Co. Stewart Creek area D. aft March 1862 at Oldtown Grayson Co. Va M. 4/4/1859

J. Hardin Lewis b. 1831 D. 1875 Knox Co.TN

Mary Emily Parker b. 1842 D. 8/9/1894 Surry Co. NC M. C1860 Columbus Cloud.

Lethia Frances Parker b. 5/1844 D. 2/24/1909 M. 3/17/1869 James Venable

Jonathan O’Brian Parker b. 1848 D. 2/19/1919 M. 7/2/1872 Sarah A. Jackson

Joshua Arthur Parker b. 1855 D.unk single age 25 on the 1880 Surry Co. Census Report.

Franklin Parker b. 12/28/1854 D. 8/15/1911 M. 2/25/1887 Mary Emily Amandaville Snoddy b.2/21/1856

D. 8/9/1894 M 2 nd Delia Collins.

From Vera Gorg in the Surry County Heritage Book.

Sarah Parker b. 5/21/1811 D. 8/30/1870 Bedford Ind. m. 3/8/1829 Newton Pierce b. 12/10/1806

Leroy Jackson Pierce b. 6/11/1830 Iredell C. NC

Elizabeth J. Pierce b. 1/1/1833 Lawrence Co IN

Sarah Mickey Pierce b. 10/18/1838 Lawrence Co. In

John Newton Pierce b. 12/19/1845 Lawrence Co. In

Henry Jasper Pierce b. 6/27/1848 Lawrence Co. Ind

Source: Gary Tharp on RootsWeb garyone@plki.net

Lucinda Parker b abt 1822 NC. Jacob Keller b. 1816 In.

Zachary T. Keller b. 1847 in In. M. Jennie b. 1851 in IL.

James W. Keller b. 1843 in In.

William P. Keller b. 1854 in In.

Edmond L. Keller b. 1861 in IL

Effie J. Keller b. 1865 in IL.

Source 1880 Shoal Creek, Newton Missouri Census Report. Living nearby son Zachary T. Keller, wife Jennie, son Charles 8 , dtr Clara 6 and Rosetta 3.

Justine Parker b. abt 1824 m. 1839 Edmond Nichols b. 1820

Charles E. Nichols b. 1855

John D. Nichols b. 1863 twin

Mary A Nichols b. 1863 twin

Ida L. Nicols b. 1867

Source Irving. Brown Co. Kansas 1880 Census Report.

James Monroe Parker b. 9/20/1826 Surry Co. NC D. C1910 Cove Union Oregon, M. Mary Smith b. C1831 in IL.

John Parker b. 1861 in Oregon

Sarah Parker b. 1864

Martha Parker b. 1866

Ida Parker b. 1870

Viola Parker b. 1872

James Parker b. 1876

Allen Parker b. 1879

Children taken from the 1880 Cove, Union Oregon Census Report.

Samuel Parker b. 10/19/1816 Grayson Co. Va d. 11/11/1894 M. 2/12/1835 D. Cinda Huhn

Josephine Parker b. 1859 D. unk M. James O. Snodgrss

Source 1880, District 2, White County Tennessee Census Report.

Arthur L. Parker b. 12/26/1824 White Co. Tenn d. 9/01/1901 M. 12/19/1845 Lodiema Washington

Mary E. Parker b. 1854 M. a Trogden, daughter Maggie L. Trogden b. 1878

James Parker b. 1857

Lodiema E. Parker b. 1862

Theodocia Parker b. 1864

Lenara Parker b. 1872

Source 1880 District 6, Van Buren Tennessee Census Report.

Joseph Parker b. 11/19/1828 White Co. Tenn d. 12/26/1893 M. 10/11/1857 Ceila Elizabeth Clark

William M. Parker b. 1858

Mary E. Parker b. 1859

Catherine E. Parker b. 1861

Nancy M. Parker b. 1863

Joseph B. Parker b. 1866

Arthur V. Parker b. 1868

James A. Parker b. 1870

Roxanie Parker b. 1872

Susan C. Parker b. 1874

Dovie L. Parker b. 1876

Rebecca F. Parker b. 1879

Source District 5, De Kalb, Tennessee Census Report.

James Thomas Parker b. est 1787 D. Aft 1850 Monroe Co. WVA in NC M. Elizabeth Young 11/29/1810 D. 12/13/1855

In Monroe Co. Va.

Joseph Alexander Parker b. C1826 D. aft 1870 Monroe Co. WVA M. Elizaeth Dolan, M2nd Sarah Livley.

Mary Parker b. 1814 d. Unk unk M 1/8/1834 Rubin Bostic in Monroe Co. WVA

Martha Parker b. 1819 D. 8/1/1856 in Monroe Co. WVA M. Charles Allen Bostic

William Parker b. 1821 D. unk

William Brownlee Parker b. 1823 in Monroe Co. WVA D. aft 1870 M . Nancy Kennedy

Elizabeth Parker b. 1829 D. unk M. Rubin Bostic in Monroe Co. WVA.

James Parker b. 1831 in Monroe Co. WVA D. aft 1870 M. Elizabeth Broyles

Note Information on James Thomas Parker received from a GGGGrandson William Reed w2reed@yahoo.com

William (Bill) Reed is descended from Joseph Alexander Parker b. 1812 and Elizabeth Dolan. James Thomas Parker was on the 1850 Census report age listed as 63. So we are unsure as to who his mother was.

William Parker b. 3/3/1815 D. 7/3/1900 M. 9/15/1837 Lydia Sullivan M. 2 nd Sarah Upton

Joseph Parker (Joe) b. 1847

Samuel Parker b. 1857

William Parker b. 1867

Mary Parker b. 1869

Source Red Sulphur Springs, Monroe West Virginia 1880 Census Report

Joseph Parker II b. 5/1/1801 D. 12/9/1883 in Hillsdale WVA. M. Elizabeth Young 9/2/1824 M. 2 nd

Mary Hendrick McClung

On the 1880 Second Creek, Monroe Creek West Virginia Census Grandson William Hawkens age

22 is living in this household.

Allen (Allertin) Adams . 1815 D. bef 1880 M. d Judith bef 1835 moved to Grayson Co. Va

Judith?

William Riley Adams b. 1836 served in Civil War

John Adams b. 1838 served in Civil War

Marry (Polly) Adams b. 1840

Martin Adams b. 1842 served in Civil War

Creed Adams b. 1844 served in Civil War

Mastin Adams b. 1845 served in Civil War

Deana Adams . 1846

(note the price this family paid in the Civil War Below)

Grayson Countians in the Civil War

ADAMS, ALLEN A., 45, Laborer, 1860 GCC HH#1236, Grayson Militia, Co. I, 51st VA, Enl. on 5/16/62 in Grayson Co. Detailed as a carpenter for company buildings.

ADAMS, MARTIN, 18, 1860 GCC HH#1236, Co. K, 37th NC Inf. Born in Grayson Co., Res. of Alleghany Co. where he Enl. on 9/15/61, age 19. Died in Richmond, VA hospital on 6/23-4/62, cause not listed.

ADAMS, MASTIN, 13, 1860 GCC HH#1236, Co. D, 50th VA Inf., Enl. 6/4/61 at Forks of Wilson Creek. Per PWR.

ADAMS, RILEY, 14, 1850 GCC. 32, Farm Laborer, NC, 1870 GCC.

( Note He is listed as William Riley Adams on the 1860 Census and elsewhere).

ADAMS, CREED: Co. A, 26th NC Inf., Enl. 5/17/61 in Ashe Co., NC. Died of disease Carolina City Hosp. 10/61. Res. Grayson Co., VA.

ADAMS, JOHN, 21, Laborer, 1860 GCC HH#1236, Co. F, 63rd VA Inf. Enl. on unknown date. Taken POW near Dallas, GA on 5/25/64. Sent to Rock Island. Enl. in U.S. Navy 6/10/64.

ADAMS, WILLIAM R., 23, 1860 GCC HH#1236, Co. I, 51st VA, Enl. on 12/3/62 in Grayson Co. Taken POW at Waynesboro, VA on 3/2/65, sent to Fort Delaware on 3/12/65, released on oath on 6/22/65, Res. of Grayson Co., fair comp., dark hair, blue eyes, 5'8". On 1900 Grayson Co. Pension list.

Allen Adams was called Allertin in George Adams 1827 will in Surry Co. NC. He appears to have been named for his Great Grandmother Lydia Allen wife of John Bryant.

George Adams Jr. b. 1818 D. 1865 M. 7/29/1837 Sarah Todd b. 1815 in Surry Co. NC

Sarah Todd b. 1815 D aft 1890 in Elkin, NC dtr of Thomas Todd & Mary Zachary

Thomas Franklin Adams b. 10/15/1838 D. 7/12/1914 in Sawtell, Ca M. 6/2/1860 Nancy Caroline Lakey in NC

M. 5/20/1888 in Co. Georgia Ann Wilkinson

Irene Adams b. 1841 d. c1910 in Thornton Town, IND M. 8/23/1865 William Sizemore in NC

Alexander Green Adams b. 6/6/1843 in Missouri, D.10/24/1915 in Mo. M. 7/7/1867 Margaret Particia

Farrington

James M. Adams b. 1845 D. C1925 Miami, OK M 1 st 12/18/1873 Lydia Carter, 2 nd 10/23/1876

Mary Jane Brandon (no children)

Christina Adams b. 1849 D. 12/12/1927 M. 2/26/1871 Ellis Adams son Martin & Matilda Adams 2 nd

H.E. Anderson, October 16, 1897

Delilah Adams b. 1/30/1852 D. 2/17/1929 M. 1880 Joseph Franklin Poindexter in NC

George W. Adams III, b. 1855 D. Unk M. 8/5/1878 Nancy P. Brown dt. Lewis & Cindy Brown in NC,

Went to New Castle, Ind

Newton Adams b. 6/1/1859 D. 5/15/1944 Indianapolis, Ind M. 12/3/1885 Eliza Freeman dt. Nathan &

Jane Freeman, married 2 nd Norvella Pearl ? in Ind

Note: George Adams was a Quaker Minister, but was ejected from the church in 1849 for military activity

George and Sarah Todd Adams, we believe are buried at the Union Grove Baptist Church, Boonville, NC. After she died her youngest son Newton Adams went to Indiana completing the exodus of the male members of this Family from NC. Christina and Delilah Adams married and remained in NC. We obtained considerable information on this family from Cousin Budd Adams at BuddAdams@aol.com

Agatha Adams b. 1814 D. unk M. 9/12/1841 in Missouri Bartholomew Henry Halley moved to Oregon in 1843

Bartholomew Halley b. 11/1/1806 D. unk

George B. Halley b. 1842 in Missouri

James Clark Halley b. 1845 in Clackamus Oregon

Angeline Halley b. 1846

Lydia A. Halley b. 1848

Elizabeth R. Halley b. 1849

Hannah Adams b. 4/12/1816 D. 6/9/1900 at Willis, Brown Co. Kansas M. 1/7/1835 Thomas Hickman in Surry Co. NC.

B. 9/22/1811 D. 12/25/1879

Nancy Emmaline Hickman b. 10/1/1849 in St Joseph, Mo. D. 1/3/1912 at Doniphan, Kansas M. 2/5/1872

August Johannes

Lydia Hickman b. 1840 D. Unk living with Sister Nancy Hickman and Augustus Johannes 1880 Brown Co. KS Census

Hannah Adams Hickman age 64 was living with this family listed as mother in-law. A daughter Hannah Hickman age 2 was

Born in Kansas was in the household.

Source: Marriage Records Buchanan Co. Missouri , Carl Evans husband of G-Gdaughter Ann Johannes Evans as relayed in a 1991 letter on file in the Yadkin County Library. Thomas Hickman was the son of John Hickman b. 12/1/1789 and Dinah Davis b. 1/25/1793 in Surry Co. NC. Dinah Davis was Ray Parker’s Aunt.

Ann Adams b. 1825 D. unk, M. 12/24/1841 at St Josephs Mo. David McVey b. 1822 in Mo.

William McVey b. 1843 in Mo. D. unk on the 1880 Jackson, Kansas Census Report, Charles Smither’s Household.

Nancy Catherine McVey b. 2/15/1847 D. 10/19/1910 Doniphan Co. KS, M. 2/2/1866 James K. Fletcher

George McVey b. 1848 in Mo.

Marinda McVey b. 1857 D. unk M. Charles Smithers b. 1846 on 1880 Jackson, Kansas Census Report. Son

Claude Smithers age 2 born in KS.

Source Marriage Records, 1850 Buchanan Co. Missouri Census, 1880 Kansas census reports.

Julia Parker b. C1808 d. C 1846-1850 M. C1826 Joseph Hurst b. 1801 in Maryland, he married 2 nd Rachel Caudle 7/6/1850

James Hurst b. C1828

Leander Hurst b. C1836

Calvin Hurst b. C1840

Robert Hurst b. 1843

Lucinda Hurst b. C1845

Jestine Hurst b. 1846

Rachel Parker b. C1813 D. unk M. John Kelly.

Children unk.

Elizabeth Parker b. C1815 d. unk M. 4/1843 in Carroll Co. Va. William Lyon

Drusilla Lyon b. C1846

George M. Lyon b. C1848

Amanda Lyon b. 1849

Hosten Lyon b. C1850

Sidney Lyon b. C1853

Joshua Lyon b. C1858

Birth years for Amanda and Joshua Lyon from the 1880 Carroll Co. Va Census Report, Calvin Parker and Mary Parker are living in the Joshua Lyon household. Ray Parker’s Grandmother was Elizabeth Lyon who married Thomas Mickles: Thomas Mickles b. C1773 D. aft 1850 M. Elizabeth Lyons M. 5/21/1794 b. C1775 D. bef 1820 John Mickles was the bondsman for this marriage in Surry Co. NC. This again demonstrates the relationships between the Grayson/Carroll Co VA and Surry Co. NC Lines.

Nancy Parker b. 1819 d. unk M. 2/26/1843 in Carroll Co. Va Alexander Frost b. 1820

Sarah Frost b. 1848

Robert H. Frost b. 1850

The above four daughters of Joshua Parker from my research and we also received information on this family from Joan Tuft & Don Tuft jlarson@burgoyne.com 1840 Grayson Co. 1850 Carroll and Wythe Co. VA census reports. Also the 1880 Census records.

James Wilson Parker b. 2/19/1832 D. 1`/19/1916 M. C1865 Katherine Benson

Lella Parker b. 1865

James J. Parker b. 1867

Emma Parker b. 1869

Anna Parker b. 1871

Inez Parker b. 1873

Clarence Parker b. 1877

Source 1880 District 141, Robertson, Texas Census Report, all the children were born in Texas also in the household, William Benson and Lella Benson stepchildren from a prior marriage for Katherine his wife.