This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McDonald McCorkle Neville Walrod Emert Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qk.2ADI/2031 Message Board Post: Parker was born September 24, 1818, in either Ohio or Pennsylvania. (Census records show both states.) He died August 11, 1908, near DeWitt, Clinton County, Iowa. Married Mary A. McCorkle (according to information at DeWitt Historical Museum) born February 18, 1820, in Pennsylvania and died March 1, 1874. Both are buried in the Elmwood Cemetery in DeWitt. Children were: Amanda, 5/20/1850 - ?; probably m Winfield Scott Neville. George, 8/30/1851 - 2/4/1937; m Margaret Walrod; farmed in SE DeWitt Township. William, 3/4/1853 - ?; m Eliza. Joseph Y., 4/26/1855 - 8/7/1920; m Dolly Emert; farmed in DeWitt Township. Jesse, 9/16/1856 - 2/8/1931; m Hattie; was cattle feeder in DeWitt Township. Eli C., 11/1/1859 - ?; believe Eli never married; moved to Chicago and drove freight wagons. Oliver, 9/13/1862 - 11/15/1862. Ida, 7/18/1864 -4/1881. Parker and Mary lived in Luzerne Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He is shown as a "wagoner" in the 1894 book,"The Old Pike," by Thomas B. Searight, Chapter 20. In Chapter 35, he kept the "red tavern" west of the "old Peter Colley stand." He is also listed as a "school director" of the Redstone School in Franklin Ellis' "History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania," 1882. We also believed he drove a stagecoach. The family moved to DeWitt Township, Clinton County, Iowa, before the 1880 census. Parker's Clinton Herald obituary calls him an "old settler."