This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Parker, Allen, Norris, Bean, Graham, Taylor, Liddell, Arbuckle, Valentine Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wk4.2ACEB/14158 Message Board Post: JONAS A. PARKER was born May 15, 1821, in this township, son of Jonas Parker and Amanda Allen, who came to Erie Co., Penn., in an early day, settling in Mill Creek Township, where he cleared a farm. The father, Jonas Parker, was twice married; had 6 children by his first wife, 8 by his second, Amanda ALLEN. Ora, our subject was the seventh child by the last marriage. Ora Parker was married, Jan. 23, 1845, to Celia P.NORRIS, daughter of Col. Benjamin F. Norris, of New Hampshire. She was a native of Indiana, to which State her father moved and resided in for a few years. The family then came to Erie Co., settling in McKean, now Summit, Township, in 1824. Col. Norris spent his last days with his daughter, Mrs. Celia P. Parker, but died in Summit Township, and was buried on his own farm, his wife having preceded him several years. Col. and Mrs. Norris had a family of 6 children, viz.: Cornelia H., wife of W. A. Bean; Calista P., now Mrs. Graham; Cordelia A., wife of D. A. Taylor; Clinton; Franklin; Helen V., wife of William Liddell; and Celia P., wife of our subject, Ora Parker. To Mr. and Mrs. Ora Parker were born 10 children -- Ashbell F., in Erie, has 1 child, Clare; Alfred, in Nebraska, has 1 child, Olive Celia; Charlie A., in Erie, has 3 children -- Maud, Clyde and George; W. S., deceased in New Mexico; Effie L.; Ella R., wife of Wm. Arbuckle, have 1 child, Scott G.; Edgar B.; Cora E., now Mrs. Valentine; Clinton N. and Bertha A. Mr. Parker died June 7, 1883, aged sixty-two years. He was a member of the Equitable Aid Society. His widow resides on the home farm, which is well stocked, with a dairy in connection. Source: Samuel P. Bates, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, (Warner, Beers & Co.: Chicago, 1884), Part VI, Township Biographies, Mill Creek Township, p. 129.