This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: joanetta4 Surnames: Parker, unknown, Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.parker/4531.4543.4558.1.3.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello, I hope I'm not intruding on your conversation with a relative but I too am a Parker with family from Arkansas and North Carolina. This is what I learned from my Uncle LeRoy Clifton Parker. John Parker from North Carolina married a woman named Piety ( don't know her maiden name). They had four children, Sarah, Greene, Esther, and Caesar. John and Piety also had 6 or more grandchildren living with them I have some information on Caesar only. Caesar was born in Wilson, North Carolina in 1861 and moved to Arkansas in 1890. Caesar resided in and around England and Keo going to Lonoke with his wife (either Julia, Judah, or Mary, there may have been another wife before these two, of this I'm not certain). Caesar Parker was written up in a local paper in Arkansas, Keo, Lonoke by Robert Sakon. The article was titled "Old Darkie Passes On to Reward Leaving Many Good Examples for Others to Follow." Caesar died in the early hours of June 27, 1940. He lived on his own farm and raised his family of 3 boys and five girls who all survived his death. In March 1924 his wife died. They'd been married for 40 years. Caesar remarried in 1926. He joined the Baptist Church at Keo in 1892 and was a deacon for 44 years. At that point of the Church records he was the oldest deacon to belong to the Church. Caesar purchased his farm 25 years earlier from Mr. Jimmy Cobb of Keo. The 40 acre farm was Caesar's pride and joy. He left to mourn his passing two sons, Will and RD Parker of Keo; 3 daughters, Lula of Little Rock, Etta of Tucker? (hard to read the name of the city) and Mary Armstrong of Los Angeles, California. (I knew Aunt Mary, she was close to my father and uncle LB Parker and LeRoy Parker. Lincoln was my dad.) Caesar's funeral was held in the evening of June 30, 1940 at the colored Baptist Church of Keo. There's more in the article but if you know this Parker family as your Parker family, then we are related. Please get back to me as soon as possible and let me know if our Parker's are one in the same. Joanetta4 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.