This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: parr of illinois Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wl4.2ACEB/191.250.1.1 Message Board Post: my great grandfather was joseph parr. according to my grandmother's tree, he married someone named mary. he was born in 1845, and died in either 1920 or 1940, am trying to straighten yhis out with cemetary. as far as i know he had two sons: nathan elijah (my grandfather), joel, my father's uncle, he lived in mount vernon, joel had a son named curren.