on 12/16/2002 9:06 PM, PARKS-D-request@rootsweb.com at PARKS-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > PARKS-D Digest Volume 02 : Issue 118 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Re: [PARKS] New book [Gail Park <ghpark@skybest.com>] > #2 [PARKS] Re: PARKS-D Digest V02 #11 [BETSY FARLOW <BFARLOW1@TRIAD.RR.CO] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from PARKS-D, send a message to > > PARKS-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > From: Gail Park <ghpark@skybest.com> > Date: Monday, December 16, 2002 8:27 AM > To: PARKS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PARKS] New book > > I am interested in the book please send details to me. > Gail Park > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "BETSY FARLOW" <BFARLOW1@TRIAD.RR.COM> > To: <PARKS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 4:11 PM > Subject: [PARKS] New book > > >> A new book is available containing the edited and annotated letters of >> James M. Parks (1810-1897) of Mecklenburg and Haywood counties, NC, > written >> 1858 to 1897. It is valuable particularly for Haywood Co. history, but >> also contains much information about this branch of the Park/Parks family. >> James had two wives and two families: Mary Matilda McCulloch (marriage > 1832) >> was the mother of Jane, William and Mary. She died in Mecklenburg Co. in >> 1838. About 1854 Parks married Louisa Rowann Parks of Burke Co. and moved >> to Haywood. There two more children, Sarah and James, were born. Louisa >> died in 1865. >> James Parks' parents were George and Elizabeth Sharp Parks; >> grandparents, Moses and Mary Hill Parks. They were member of Providence >> Presbyterian Church in Mecklenburg Co. >> His daughter, Jane, married Hugh Alexander Grey, a successful educator >> of Mecklenburg. Nineteen of their descendants graduated from Davidson >> College. Around 1941 their son, James Parks Grey, donated funds for the >> Hugh and Jane Parks Grey library at Davidson College, which was dedicated > in >> 1942. >> Dozens of Mecklenburg and Haywood persons are identified in the >> letters. >> For more information, contact me off list. >> >> >> ==== PARKS Mailing List ==== >> No spamming of the list! That includes Jokes, Poems, Recipes, Chain >> Letters, Garden Tips, Ghost Tales, etc. Spamers will be unsubbed. >> This is a genealogy mail list only!! >> > > ______________________________ > From: BETSY FARLOW <BFARLOW1@TRIAD.RR.COM> > Date: Monday, December 16, 2002 10:42 AM > To: PARKS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [PARKS] Re: PARKS-D Digest V02 #117 > > on 12/15/2002 10:01 PM, PARKS-D-request@rootsweb.com at > PARKS-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > >> >> PARKS-D Digest Volume 02 : Issue 117 >> >> Today's Topics: >> #1 [PARKS] Parks book [davcel080@aol.com] >> >> Administrivia: >> To unsubscribe from PARKS-D, send a message to >> >> PARKS-D-request@rootsweb.com >> >> that contains in the body of the message the command >> >> unsubscribe >> >> and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >> requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. >> >> ______________________________ >> From: davcel080@aol.com >> Date: Sunday, December 15, 2002 9:54 AM >> To: PARKS-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [PARKS] Parks book >> >> Thank you for the information on the book on James Parks. Am interested . >> Please send cost, etc., >> >> Cecilia B. Parke >> > Thanks for asking. The James Parks family is briefly mentioned in your > book on Roger Parke descendants and I have included it in my bibliography. > My book costs $25.00 plus $1.75 sales tax for NC residents only, and > $2.50 S&H. Send check and order to Betsy C. Farlow, 1503 Von Bora Court, > Burlington, NC 27215-9742. > If you want to know more about the contents of the book, let me know. For purchase send check to Betsy C. Farlow, 1503 Von Bora Court, Burlington, NC 27215-9742. Cost is $25.00 plus $1.75 sales tax for NC residents only, and $2.50 S&H.