Hi Curt, Thank you for your responses as I found them most interesting. I am sorry but I do not have any records on James Newton Parker or brother Richard Parker however I do think there is a connection between this Parker family and the Parker family I have been researching. As we all know there were a lot of Parker folk down in TN migrating from VA and NC. They were all related one way or another. I have been working with a group of PARKER cousins researching Dempsey Parker b. 1787 Northampton County, NC d. Mar 1873 Sumner County, TN m. 16 Dec 1815 Dixon Springs, Smith County, TN Frances Hargis b. 1798 probably TN d. after 1871 Sumner County, TN. Dempsey/Frances Hargis Parker had 11 children according to their youngest son Daniel Webster Parker's Eastern Cherokees Application (rec'd Apr 1, 1907 by the Indian Office) which was one of many applications made by the descendants of Jennie Jacobs who was suppose to have been a full blooded Cherokee Indian. Daniel Webster Parker accounted for 6 brothers: Ira Simon, Harvey Burton, James G., Isaac Newton, Elvis Brooks, and Alfred as well as 4 sisters whom he did not name. Our group knows two of the names were Catherine and Frances. If anyone out there knows the names of the other two daughters of Dempsey/Frances Hargis Parker they would be gratefully appreciated. According to a census one daughter was born between 1820-1825 an! d the other between 1825-1830. We do not know the siblings of Dempsey Parker (Mills or Miles Parker, Dempsey Parker, Daniel Parker, Richard Parker III, Richard Parker II, Richard Parker I, James Parker, William Parker, and I have names of 9 more generations.) We do have listed a possible 3 brothers and 1 sister (there probably are more as families tend to be large back in those days) as Dempsey Parker's siblings. Now I am wondering with the info you gave me if William Parker, Sr. or Jr. might be one of the siblings??? It was noted in one of Cal's Columns that Dempsey Parker had descendants in the banking business. I know one was named William Parker and I think the other was Luther Parker. Can you give me any birth dates and or places? Any info would be gratefully appreciated. Barbara Parker Barbara: Further to my previous message, Miles West was Richard and James Newton Parker's uncle as he married Lucy Parker, sister to their dad William Parker, and daughter of William Parker Sr. Curt Johnson ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 8:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TNMACON] Alexander & Josiah Uhles Barbara: My great grandmother, Mary (Polly) Ann Gregory, daughter of Smith and Rebecca (Kemp) Gregory, first married James Newton Parker, son of William and Elizabeth (Williams) Parker. They lived in Polly Ann Hollow, which is just north of the Will Gregory Cemetery and south of The Sycamore Valley Baptist Church on Peytons Creek. It is now in Macon County but right on the Smith/Macon county line. Family rumor is that James Newton went to Red Boiling Springs and joined the army. He died (apparently from a disease) in December 1863. Polly Ann then married his older brother, Richard. They had 3 children (one was my grandmother) and in 1878, she took the children and moved to Madison County, Missouri leaving Richard behind. We have never been able to locate any records on James Newton or Richard. Would the list you mention have either of them? I would like to find where they are buried. Regards, Curt Johnson ==== TNMACON Mailing List ==== <a href="http://www.tngennet.org/macon"> VISIT THE MACON COUNTY, TENNESSEE WEBPAGE!</A>