Hi Everyone. I was looking at the Johnson County Heritage Journal for Jan 1998. on page 6 is reprinted one of the entries in The PORTRAIT and BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW (1897) of Johnson Co (and others) states. The entry is for that of Hon. Isaac A. J. Parker. I will type it up here. I want to know if anyone else has information on this PARKER family? I have several PARKERS that married into the family. One is Augustus PARKER who married Alice HARVICK (dau of Harrison HARVICK and Frances E. UTLEY who married in 1857). The time frame works but before I go plugging anything in I just want to be sure. Thanks Mara Hon. Isaac A. J. PARKER was the son of Moses D. and Louisa Elizabeth Jackson PARKER, of Tennessee and Alabama, respectively, and was born in Tishomingo Co. Miss. in 1840..." He was reared and educated in Tippah Co. Miss. and resided there until the breaking out of the war, when, the family being all strong sympathizers with the cause of the Union, their property was confiscated and they were compelled to leave the State. On Oct. 7, 1862, Mr. Parker joined the Hatcher scouts at Corinth, Miss. and served until the company was honorably discharged, after which he enlisted in the Mississippi Rangers, which were soon afterward incorporated with the First Alabama Cavalry. He was commissioned 1st Lieutenant and served as such until the expiration of his term of enlistment, Jan. 8, 1864, when he served a few months as recruiting officer at Memphis, Tenn. In January, 1865 he removed to Illinois and settled in Johnson County, Purchasing a farm near Vienna, which he has occupied continuously ever since. He commenced teaching school in Mississippi when seventeen years of age, and continued to follow that profession until the breaking out of the war. Soon after locating in Johnson County, he resumed his former vocati8on and taught school a portion of each year for nineteen years. In 1858 he was converted and joined the Christian Church at Hickory Flats, Miss. And in 1882 was ordained a preacher in that denomination. In December, 1891 he engaged in the sale of agricultural implements, wagons, carriages, musical instuments, etc., and during all this time he has superintedned the improvement and culitvation of his farm. In 1858 he married Miss Jemima J. Clary, a native of Indiana� they have had ten children, viz: Charles Addison, Lucas, Augustus, Lilly, Mary Oma, Willis, Beverly, Olive Ethel, Alice Myrtle, and Miletus, deceased. Mr. Parker is a Democrat in Politics and in 1888 was elected a member of the Thirty-Sixth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, in which he served with fidelity and distinction." Shirley Wolfe acting editor of the Johnson Co. Heritage Journal notes that Mrs. Parker obit will be published in a later edition.