JAMES PARKER, farmer, Section 5, P. O. Walnut, native of Cincinnati, Ohio, born in 1822. Mr. Parker was the first settler in this part of Flat Rock Creek, coming to his present location in September, 1865. If it had not been his fixed determination to make himself a home he would have returned to the East, for he lost his first crop and his family were in want. He went to Uniontown to Mr. Foster, getting a job of freighting goods from Kansas City down. This he took out in provisions for his family before starting himself, making the first wagon track across the broad prairies. He sees in 1883 well defined roads and substantial buildings on every side, and by hard work now has a fine home and well improved farm, raising grain and stock. Mr. Parker has been married twice, the last time in 1880 to Miss Lookingbill. By the first he had three boys and two girls. http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/neosho/neosho-co-p9.html