This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Parker, Ready Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kNB.2ACI/1902.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi, there were 6 Parker siblings living in CAnnon County Tennessee in 1850. 4 boys and two girls. My great-great-great grandmother, Sarah Lucyan Parker Ready, was the eldest girl. Cornelius, Dozier, and the youngest girl, ended up in Texas County, MO, by way of Iowa. The other three, John Wesley Parker, Thomas Lewis Parker, and Sarah Lucyan Parker Ready came with their families to Maries County MO. John Wesley was bushwhacked as was Cornelius. When Cornelius was bushwhacked, he had remarried to a younger woman, his first wife had died. They were trying to raise his children by his first wife. But maybe it was too much for the younger woman. Anyway his children, Levi, Henry, John David and Jerusha, were taken in my Thomas Ready and Sarah Lucyan. Sarah Lucyan died in 1870 but I know from a court case, Levi and Henry were still living with Thomas Ready and his kids. I am not sure John David and Jerusha lived with them, because by the time the court case came about - in August 1871 - those two were married, but the younger Henry and Levi still made their home with 'Uncle Tom Ready'. Since Jerusha and John David married in Maries County, I believe it is safe to assume after their father's death in 1862 or 1863, they probably also made their home with the Ready's until they married. Do you happen to have anything - like newspaper article - or even passed down stories? I would love to hear anything. My email is ljames62@osagecon.missouri.org.