on 12/17/2002 9:01 PM, PARKS-D-request@rootsweb.com at PARKS-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > PARKS-D Digest Volume 02 : Issue 119 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Re: [PARKS] Re: PARKS-D Digest V02 [davcel080@aol.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: davcel080@aol.com > Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 8:16 AM > To: PARKS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PARKS] Re: PARKS-D Digest V02 #117 > > Dear Betsy, > > Thanks for replying. I will get back with you later on the book. > > I did not notice your name as a member of The Parke Society. Are you? Did > you buy a book from me? As a member of the Society, you could most likely > mention your book, etc., in one of the newsletters, relating to your James > Park lineage and perhaps find some interested distant cousins. Since you are > trying to sell your book, you could also place one in The Parke Society > Library with the condition that it not be circulated until you inform them. > They will only keep it for reference. > > Publishing a book is great and I have learned alot. I have been asked by > several to do another up to date one but will wait on that, since we are now > involved in DNA testing for the Roger Parke lineage. Who knows what will > show up. > > Merry Christmas > > Cecilia B. Parke PS#535 > > ______________________________ > From: BETSY FARLOW <BFARLOW1@TRIAD.RR.COM> > Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:25 AM > To: PARKS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [PARKS] Re: PARKS-D Digest V02 #118 > > 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. > I am not a member of the Parke Society. I saw your book at the Rowan Co. Public Library in Salisbury, NC. According to his instructions, I sent a description of my book to Percy Park for the next issue of the newsletter. I appreciate your advice concerning book sales. It has already been brought to my attention that there is dispute about who the descendants of Roger Parke are, so I hope the DNA test will provide conclusive results.