This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Parker Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GMB.2ACE/646.2 Message Board Post: In addition to Garys note, thought I would tell you I looked at the cemetery records for Platte County with no luck. I found your family in the 1850 census and checked all the names in the family against the cemetery index book. Again, nothing found. Gary also mentioned Paxtons "Annals of Platte County". I checked the addendum to the same with no Parkers listed in the index. The 1850 census listed his wife as Mary A. Parker. There is a reference to that name in "History of Clay and Platte Counties". She is listed as one of the original members of the Parkville M.E. Church South. Appears it organized in 1849 and must have survived the Civil War this book usually tells when the churches were burned. I am familiar with Parkville but not the history of its buildings so I don't know if this church still exists or not. Checking the 1880 census, I found a Mary A. living with grandchildren named Searcy back in KY. I wonder if they may have taken Josiah back to KY where Mary and the older children were from. Best of luck. Chuck