This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/834.1123.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I can answer that, Larry. Thomas J. Parrott was my great-grandfather, and he is most certainly the grandson of William and Charlotte Flora Parrott. He was the son of their daughter Emmeline and a dentist named Thomas J. Speck. In a letter written to Ruth Parrott Peoples dated 30 August 1946 Thomas J. Parrott stated: "Relative to your ancestors will say - On my side of house the "Paros" or Parrotts are French. The Floras are Hollanders, from Doom, Holland. Charles Parrott, my great grandfather, your great, great grandfather came to Tenn. from North Carolina; Asheville, many years ago (I do not know the wife's name) with a family of children; among them my grandfather, Wm. Parrott - your great great grandfather, born, I think, in April 1820 - his brothers - Charles Parrott, Henry Parrott, Green Parrott, Thomas Parrott, Robert Parrott. Sisters - Elmira Parrott, Betsy Parrott, and Julia Ann Parrott. Wm. Parrott (our grandfather) married Charlotte Temple Flora - daughter of Daniel Flora, Sr. (of Doom, Holland) and wife Lucy Pilant Flora - to them ten children were born - James A., David H., William M., Thomas J. Parrott - Emeline, Margaret, Elmira, and some who died in infancy. My father's name same as mine - dates of births and deaths destroyed by fire in home ____? house. But from memory I recall some dates. My grandfather Wm. Parrott died in my house in Rogersville, Tenn. May 1898 at 81 yrs. of age, and Grandmother Charlotte T. Parrott died same place July 1898 at 83 years of age. My mother was born May 10 - 1840 and died Aug-1873 at 33 years of age. My father was born (I may be able to get the data) - then your grandmother Sarah Eliza (Davis) Parrott was born Jan. 6 - 1866 and died Aug - 19 - 1944 -- Daughter of Geo. Wesley Davis and wife Sarah ("Aunt Sallie") (Amyx) Davis. Baby of ten children who lived to be grown, all with families; and the youngest one more than 55 years old before any one of them died. I was born at Rogersville, Hawkins Co., Tenn. Jan. 23-1857 - and Sarah Eliza Davis and I married December 10th 1884 and 6 children were born to us. Cora N. Parrott, Sam Neill Parrott, Winnie Davis Parrott, Lois Parrott, John H. Parrott Aug -23-1896 (Sunday 10 am) in the new home in Rogersville, Tenn. Was 50 yrs. old 1 week ago - God bless his memory! ...." In a letter to his son Thomas Robert Clark Parrott dated 14 November 1948, Thomas J. Parrott identifies his own father as Thomas J. Speck, a dentist from Rogersville, TN. He writes: "Some Ancestors of T. J. Parrott (Thos. Jas.) Born Near Rogersville, Tenn., Jan. 23d, 1857 Father - Thos. J. (Speck) Mother - Emeline (Flora) Parrott....We have a great many direct relatives, including a Speck family Dr. Thomas J. Speck, Lawrence Speck, George Speck and sister Mary Speck who married Major A. H. Pettibone & Congressman for the First Tennessee District (my uncle by marriage) the Specks all born and reared at Rogersville, Hawkins Co., Tenn." Additionally, a post confirms a Bible record for William Parrott marrying into the Flora family, not the Setzers: Author: Barbara Wilson Dooley Date: 16 Jul 2002 3:07 AM GMT Surnames: FLORA, MOSBY, PARROTT Classification: Query In Reply to: Re: FLORA FAMILY by: Susan Willis "Susan, I was just looking at a photocopy of births, marriages, and deaths from the Flora family Bible. Under the list of deaths, there is "Charlotte Parrott died Aug. 26, 1897 at her grandsons T. J. P. [T. J. Parrott] in Rogersville." The name in [ ] was written in by the owner of the Bible, Alma Flora Mosby. Here is what Alma wrote about the Bible: ". . .the Bible belonged to Rev. Joseph Flora (b. 1816) who was a Baptist minister and Civil War Chaplain. The Flora family came from Pennsylvania. . . . Charlotte Flora (c. 1814) married William Parrott (b. 1814) and died in 1897." Perhaps you have already seen this Bible record, but I'm sending it in case you haven't." The Setzer connection is a myth, period.