Biography of Mark Candler Parker 1835-1904

Biography
of
Mark Candler Parker
1835-1904


With supplementing data
on his Ancestry and Progeny
by his granddaughter
Oyce Parker Alfred



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CONTENTS

I. Foreword
II. Lineage
III. Elder Mark Candler Parker
IV. Joanna Doroas (Thigpen) Parker
V. Children of Mark C. & Joanna Parker
VI. Brythal Cornelius Parker
VII. In Memorium--Reece Parker
VIII. Poems by Plemon Parker
IX. Cader Atkins Parker III
X. Stephen Pope Parker II
XI. Joanna Thigpen (Parker) Evers
XII. Nancy Aby (Parker) Harkins
XIII. Antoinette Fannin (Parker) Camp
XIV. Clara Louisa (Parker) Evers
XV. Mark Eason Parker
XVI. Joseph Hall Parker
XVII. Seth Ruel Parker
XVIII. Mementoes of Elder Joseph Thigpen
XIX. Future Notes and Dates








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TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER
SETH RUEL PARKER





FOREWORD
To the descendants of
Elder Mark Candler Parker:
This book contains a biography
of Mark Candler Parker and his wife, Joana V. (Thigpen) Parker,and each ‘wenuIaFn, including their pictures and supplementing data on their descefldants,aS well as a brief record of their ancestry.
The preparation of this book has not been an easy task, but it has been a labor of love. I have been overwhelmed by the PARKER ancestry, and believe that you will be too, when you know the rich heritage that is yours. I hope that my pride in the PARKER ancestry is pardonable.
God has truly blessed our fain-. ily by calling out of its ranks so many preachers and layzen to pro— claim His Blessed Word. He has not been unmindful of His own—blessing even to the third and fourth generation and then more. The whole ancestry has been keyed to the pitch of spiritual emphasis. We are now receiving, without a doubt, blessings which are answers to prayers that were stored up In the Archives of Heaven by our christian ancestors. My prayer is that the lives of those who read this volume and the one published simultaneously with this one, by Robert S. Roddenbery, Jr., will be enriched and blessed thereby.
I arc atefifl for the spirit of cooperation that wa4 manifested by all, but I want to especlaily thank CosIn Tupsie (Curry) Goree for her untiring assistance. without the data that she had in her possession, I could never have had this book as complete as it is. All names and dates are believed to br-true and accurate; the result of long
- and dilint research, and much correspondence with relatives.
Lovingly,
Oyce Parker Alfred
3001 Exposition Ave.,
Shreveport, Louisiana.
November 15, 1957.

Abbreviations used herein:
b.--born; d--died; m--married;
ch.--child or children;
C.S.A.--Confederate States Army.



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I , MNEAGE FROM KADER PARKER OF EDGECOMB CO., N. CAROLINA
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/ KADER PARKER is be1ied to be the father of Sgt. Jacob Parker.
SOT. JACOB PARKER, b. 1755 in Virginia, d. 1512 in Cumberland Co., N. C.
V m. 1779, to Mary b. 17614, d. 1509. Their children were:
ba Par1cj, William Parker; and possibly Kader Parker, Jr. i a
brother to lea and william. N
b. 1750 In C’emberland County, N. C., d. 1555 in Stewart Co., Ga., m. 1503 to NjQpe, b. 1752, d. 1SL2 in Stewart Co., Ga.
Their children were as follows: ba Parker, Jr.; Jac Parker; Stephen Parker; Sallie Parker; Cader AUcIn Parker James Parker, (Jacob, Stephen, Cader Atkins and James re all iauitive Baptist preachers)
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gSPJcR,?b. May 16, 1510 In Cumberland Co., N. C., d. Jan. 19, 1556 in Mt. Vernon, Texas. in. Nov. 7, 1530 to Mrs. Loui,,fl (Candler) Beard, a childless widow, b. June 21, 15014, IVTmbia tr. Jan. 14,