A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Martha Augusta Parks
From the Parks manuscript:
Martha C. Parks, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Davis) Parks was married to Wm. Harvey Moore at the residence of her brother James Parks, in 1833. Harvey Moore was a thorough scholar, and had a remarkable memory, reciting whole pages from Scott’s and other poems, without an apparent effort to commit them to memory. Their children were William H., Elizabeth Davis, Mary Agnes, Thomas Parks, three last dying in childhood and youth; Thomas at fifteen, remarkably amiable and intellectual, Walter, Henry, Martha, Agnes, and Mary Elizabeth. Henry married, and in 1879 died at Memphis of yellow fever; Martha Agnes married Mr. Mitchell, after a brief year of happiness, died – the beautiful, gifted and accomplished idol of husband, mother, brothers, and sisters, leaving her infant daughter, Agnes, to her sister’s care.
The Parks manuscript lists her as Martha Cunningham Parks. You would think he would know his own sister’s middle name, but Bob Dryden lists her as Martha Augusta Parks.
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