This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0VB.2ACI/994.1 Message Board Post: Larry, Noticed your posting. Parkers and Hutchens are my lines in Yadkin Co. NC. The name Sherman Parker is also a family name as below: Ray Parker Sherman Thomas Parker b. 1865 D. 10/2/1919 M. unk was a minister Wife Unk. Lavinia Parker Unk daughter Note: Sherman Parker lived in Statesville and Charlotte, NC. He went to Hillsville, Va to preach a sermon and developed a headache. He went to the druggist in Hillsville who gave him Morphine by mistake for a headache. He died as a result 10/2/1919. He was either a Methodist or Baptist Minister both have been reported by cousins. Irma Matthews a local historian told Cousin Kay Brown that Sherman Parker conducted a funeral for baby at the Prospect Methodist Church one afternoon as he was returning from his studies at the East Bend Academy. That for a young fellow still in school, he did a pretty good job on the funeral. As recorded by Irma Matthews in her history of the Prospect Methodist Church for the Yadkin County Heritage Book Volume I, Mr. T W. S. Parker was a Sunday School Officer at the church in 1887. She also related to Kay Brown that Sherman Parker presided over the funeral of a young child there while on his way home from the East Bend Academy wher! e he was a student as a young man.