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From: HERMON B FAGLEY <>
Subject: [WVHAMPSH-L] Re: Wright,Higgins, Jolliff,and my Dr Thomas Wynne
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 14:23:28 -0500


Sure,we've talked someplace, and I think you proved my Lewis Co,Ky guess
wrong.
You might have missed Beers"History of Brown Co,Oh" bio of a drover,and
Rev War
CAPTURED Capt of Hampshire-Hardy Co, who m 1st a Wright,and 2nd,a
Jolliff, [
of the Winchester,Va area?] and then settled,Higginsport, was Clermont,
then,1818 ,
Brown Co,Oh. Thinking Lt Peter Higgins was his brother.
Jobina Boots prom date cut off a toe mowing prom day,so I took 2 dates-I
know it's tough,but
I sacrificed. My real estate agent wife is selling ex-Felicity,Oh mayor's
house right now.
I'll talk Stout,and Quick,AND Crawford,and Stephenson,and RICHARD
GRAHAM'S station,and
Quick's fort

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 11:32:56 EST writes:
>
>
>
> HI HERMAN, This is Virginia WINN Parker in Oxnard CA and I have
> talked to you
> before re: some of Jim's people (FITCH, CRAWFORD, STOUT, CORDINGLY
> OF LEWIS
> CO KY {}) and some of my people in Henry and St. Clair counties in
> MO ( WINN,
> COLE, PROTHERO, MARLIN, UJDERWOOD, BOOTS, JAMES w/MILES AND LEWIS,
> DAVIS,
> MORGAN, KNIERIM and more.
>
> On some piece of paper in the Johnson Co MO Historical Society
> Library in our
> home town of Warrensburg MO, a notation was made that "by 1745 John
> Parker
> was in NJ" but we have never been able to prove that fact.
> Following is his
> info and a few ancestors that are in Jim's lines.
>
> John Parker b abt 1680 place unk; d. 1760 in Hampshire Co VA leaving
> a will
> naming has wife Elizabeth maiden name unk; and six
> children--Richard,
> Elizabeth; Nathanial or Nathan called Nat; Robert, Aaron; and
> Catherine.
> Richard and Elizabeth m. Nalle siblings; not much is known about
> Nat; Robert
> m. Hannah Peters; Catherine m. either a Foreman or a Taylor, think
> Wm.
> Foreman; an Aaron m. a Dodson or Dobson (have correct name in
> database tho).
> Also named in the will of John Parker was a grandson Thomas Parker,
> who
> shared equally in the estate with the six children. It is not known
> for sure
> but Thomas may have been the son of a 7th child- a son- who may have
> died
> earlier than the father John Parker.
>
> By 1765 when the estate of John Parker was settled, widow Elizabeth
> had
> already married Thomas McGuire, who had a son from a previous
> marriage who
> was favored by Elizabeth and to whom she left land in her will. The
> land ame
> was some of the land that John Parker had left to her in his will.
> We have a
> copy of that will and a coppy of Elizabeth's will.
>
> Jim's line is thru Robert who m. Hannah Peters--of one their
> children was a
> son Solomon Parker b 1778 prob. in Hampshire Co VA. He m. Sarah
> Wright b
> 1782, and had several children. We now only Sarah's name, birth and
> death
> dates--no ancestors of hers.
>
> In 1810 Wm P. Parker was born to Solomon and Sarah Wright Parker in
> Hampshire
> Co VA. He m. in 1835 to Elizabeth Higgins, dtr of Elizabeth Copsey
> and James
> Higgins of Bath, VA. They had only one son, James Higgins Parker b.
> 1836
> Hampshire Co VA. in 1842 WM. P., wife Elizabeth, son James Higgins,
> and
> Elizabeth's father (widow) James Higgins removed to Lafayette Co MO.
> In 1843
> both Elizabeth and her father died and are buried in Old Lexington
> Cemetery,
> Lexington, Lafayette Co MO.
>
> This was the beginning fo the MO Parker lines. Would love to know
> if you
> know anything about them at all ? Or have any suggestions re: this
> line of
> Parkers.
>
> RESEARCHING: PARKER, HIGGINS, PARSONS, FIELD, WRIGHT, NALLE,
> MYTINGER,
> DIMMITT,
> PETERS, BERRY, BROWN, HOY, COOPER, YOUNGS, RUSH, MOCK, COPSEY,
> TAYLOR
> (SIMON), JOHNSON (OKIE/WILLIAMS); FITCH, CRAWFORD, STOUT, CAMPBELL,
> CORDINGLY, MOORE (ANN TRUMAN NEE MOORE) and many more. Do have some
> info on
> most of these names, but like eveyrone else--always looking for
> more.
>
> Thanks, Virginia WINN Parker Oxnard, CA
>

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