A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Walter Davis Parks
From the Parks manuscript:
Walter Davis, fourth son of Joseph and Elizabeth Parks, married Mary Park in Elkton, Kentucky, September, 1829. He was then assistant in the clerk’s office, Willis Reeves being clerk of both the circuit and county courts. Their children were Joseph Reeves, Letitia, Martha Jane, John Hamilton, James Thomas, Lizzie Davis, Walter Davis, Mary, David Henry, Samuel Park, and Wm. Harvey Parks. Shortly after his marriage he moved to Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and went into the mercantile business remained there till June 1835, when he moved to Illinois, where his two brothers James and Thomas had settled, all desiring to free their slaves and settle in a free state. Illness in all of the families and throughout the country caused Dr. Thomas Parks and Walter Parks to leave the state, the former returning to Missouri in 1838, the latter to Nashville, Tennessee, in the spring or summer of 1836, residing there two or three years, then settled in Memphis, and family moved to Washington County, Arkansas, in the autumn of 1849, still engaged in mercantile business, lived there till his death, January 1850, leaving a widow and seven surviving children – Letitia dying in infancy, also James Thomas, and David Harvey, Joseph R. Parks married, and was killed by the Indians in the early part of the Civil War, sacrificing his life in compliance with his mother-in-law’s imperative entreaties to go for a physician for her son, having been paroled within the bounds of his farm and neighborhood. Years elapsed before his remains were found buried under rock and brush in a deep ravine. He left two girls, Mary B. and Martha Jane, with their widowed mother. Martha Jane Parks married Wm. Spicy of Dardewell, Arkansas, he dying during the Civil War, and she a few years later leaving four children, Mary Lizzie, Speight, Martha Jane, and Robert. John Hamilton, Lizzie J., Walter D., Mary (O’Brien) Sam, and Harvey Parks are all married at the present date, 1881.
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