I've been reading with interest all the messages about the PARKS family who were in the southern states. My PARKS line started in Vermont, at least as far back as I've been able to go. Peter Glick PARKS and brother Silas Leonard PARKS were born in Vermont. We believe their father was a John PARKS but quite obviously that was a very common name in the PARKS clan! Peter married Charlotte LAMB about 1825 in Broome Co., New York and had five children there: Janette, Jerome, Jane, Lozetta, Lucinda and Minerva. James was born in Michigan. Oscar, Morris, Aurilla, Nathan and Peter were born in Illinois. Peter and Silas both migrated to Michigan but Peter then moved on to Illinois, settling in McHenry county about 1841. Peter then moved to Larmar, Barton Co., MO some time before dying there in 1891. Allied names are NUGENT, CLASS, DOW, WILCOX and possibly McNALLY and McLAUGHLIN. Does anyone connect to this family??? Sandra