OK...here's my puzzle...I'm looking for the siblings and parents of Albert Parks. He was born around 1823, probably in TN. He married Maria Nancy Eades around 1850. Maria was born about 1829 in Hardin Co., TN. There is quite a bit known about her family. I first found Albert and Maria in the 1850 AR census (Wiley's Cove, Searcy Co.), where Albert was living with Maria and her brother, Jacob. This census lists Albert as a tinker from KY...the only reference I have of his being from KY. By the 1860 census, Maria and Albert were married weren living in Griffin Township, Conway Co. They had 3 sons and 2 daughters: Jacob H. Parks, born abt 1852, married Sarah from MO, born abt 1848; John E. Parks, born 1854, died 1891 in Formosa, Van Buren Co., AR.--married Mary Frances Hammet, born 1849 in Carroll Co., TN, died 1903 in Formosa, Van Buren Co., AR. --married Aug 15, 1869; Albert Daniel Lafayette Parks, born 1856 married Mary from AR--he went by Daniel and ended up in OK; Susan E. Parks (born about 1858) can't be found after the 1870 census; Laura Jane Parks (born about 1860) married John C. Foster and lived out the rest of her life in Big Flat, Baxter County, AR; The second wife of Albert was Mary P. Martin, born in TN 1843, and died September 10, 1907 in Dike, TX. They were married January 25, 1866. Apparently Maria died first, then Albert remarried. Except for one of the daughters the children were sent off after Albert died. I don't recognize the names of the people they were living with. I found them scattered throughout Arkansas in the 1870 census. In 1880, the 3 brothers were in a census in Van Buren Co., AR., Griggs Twp. (pg. 466) all near each other, married and with young children. John E. Parks and Mary Frances Hammett (Allen Fields Hammett and Gillian Angeline (Angie) Traywick) had 7 children. Since he died in 1891, I would like to know who raised the younger ones...one of the older brothers? Mary E., (born 1872) married James Westly Westerman and lived in a log cabin; Charles H. (born 1873) was a farmer and married Nellie Barnes; Monford Rudolph (born 1876) became a physician, married Alice Mackey, who died--he then married Rosa M. Rhoades; John Franklin (born 1879) married Cumina Ethel Harris--after she died he moved to Missouri and had a second family up there--anyone looking for a Parks in the 1900's in MO?; Angie (born about 1880) died as a teenager; George Walter, my grandfather, (born 1888) married Ida Mae Fellers--he was a lawyer; Rebecca Jane (born 1890) married George Washington Lee An elderly uncle said that Albert was running from the law and didn't want to be found. Family history says that Albert was ambushed during the time of the reconstruction. I would like to find Albert's parents. Thanks for any help at all! Nancy Parks Phoenix, AZ