This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Parker, Talmadge, Coburn, Seals, Burton, Jones, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wk4.2ACEB/14159 Message Board Post: GEORGE C. PARKER, farmer, P. O. North East, of Greenfield Twp, Erie CO, PA was born in Mill Creek Township, this county, March 17, 1826, son of William and Emily (Talmadge) Parker, who were natives of Vermont and Pennsylvania respectively, and parents of two children -- George, our subject, and Henry. Mrs. Emily (Talmadge) Parker died September 25, 1828. William Parker married his deceased wife's sister, Elizabeth, who bore him two children -- D. J., dying in Ohio, and Emily, the wife of A. Prindle (has four children). Our subject, George C.PARKER, was joined in matrimony April 12, 1849, to Eliza COBURN, daughter of Stephen Coburn, with four children resulting -- 1) A. J., married to Eva Burton; 2) Frank D., married to Effie, daughter of Charles Jones (had one child -- Lynn); Mrs. Effie Parker died February 5, 1844; 3) Eldora D., wife of Frank Searls and 4) Burt C. Mr. Parker has for many years been a leading citizen of Greenfield Township, filling many of the local offices, such as Road Commissioner, Judge and Inspector of Elections, School Director, and for a number of terms acted as Assistant Assessor. His farm of 200 acres, well watered and improved, is finely located in the northwest corner of this township. He is a clever gentleman, a member of the A. O. U. W. No. 5, Perry Lodge. Source: Samuel P. Bates, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, (Warner, Beers & Co.: Chicago, 1884), Part VI, Township Biographies, Greenfield Township, p. 78.