GOOD GRIEF -- in cleaning out my mailbox, I re-read this old message I sent back in May and I used an incorrect given name for one of my ancestors: where I used "Charles H. Parker" below, I should have said JAMES H. PARKER. Please excuse my error. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jennie & Bob Cox To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [KYFRANKL] Re: Franklin Cemetery book Hello Brenda: I don't know where Peaks Mill is, but that name hasn't come up in my research. Unfortunately, my Parker line is currently at a dead end. The farthest back that I have been able to go is to Charles H. Parker and his first wife Maria Roach. I am directly descended from this couple -- their daughter Sarah Elizabeth Parker married George Jesse Kaze; both Sarah and George are buried in the Frankfort Cemetery. The daughter of Sarah and George was my grand mother Lula Nelson Kaze Noland (husband James Murray Noland) also buried in the Frankfort Cemetery. I have the title to the two graves immediately next to Lula's grave; my husband and I plan to be buried there. Now, with respect to Charles H. Parker -- he was, according to his Civil War pension application, born in 1844 in Gravel Switch, KY (over in Marion Co). After the war (where he served with General John Hunt Morgan, aka Morgan's Raiders, Confederate Army), he came to Mercer Co, KY, where he lived out the rest of his life. He is buried in the Ebenezer Church cemetery in Salvisa, KY alongside his second wife Georgiana Spaulding. He had 4 children with his first wife Maria Roach, and about a dozen with his second wife Georgiana. Courtesy of the wonderful Mercer Co, KY historical society in Harrodsburg, I can trace Maria's family back several generations further from Virginia (although her father is unknown and will remain that way -- he was unidentified even at the time of her birth; her mother Belinda Roach Jr. was "not quite right in the head" for reasons unknown; oral tradition in the family is that she fell off a cliff and hit her head while young; but Belinda's parents Belinda Sr (Roach) Roach and William Roach were first cousins, so who knows . . .). Anyway, many of the descendants of Charles Parker from both of his wives have features and coloring compatible with Cherokee blood, abundant straight black hair and dark complexion. Family oral tradition has it that there was Cherokee blood in the family, but it is unclear from which line. Photographs of Charles Parker's granddaughter Lula Nelson Kaze Noland indicate these features; unfortunately Lula died when my mother was less than a year old, so my mother did not have the benefit of her mother's stories. But I have not found any documentation on Charles H. Parker other than his Civil War pension application. Supposedly, at the time he entered the Civil War at age 16 or 17, his mother was widowed and he had a brother. So, if you have any ideas for me that would be wonderful! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brenda Duvall" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:05 AM Subject: RE: [KYFRANKL] Re: Franklin Cemetery book > Jennie, > > Are your Parkers from the Peaks Mill area? > > Thanks. > > Brenda J Duvall > 304 Old Station Road > Frankfort KY 40601 > (502) 223-3779 Home > (502) 395-3284 Cell