Extracted from "Walker County, Texas a History", Walker County Genealogical Society and Walker County historical Commission, 1986 Jessie Parker was a farmer, soldier, early Texas pioneer, and raised cattle, using his initials "JP" as a stock brand. He moved to Franklin County, Georgia, on Nails Creek about 1798 and the Governor of Georgia signed a passport 30 March 1809 for him through the Creek Indian Nation. Settling west of the Pearl River, arriving 10 August 1809 in now Franklin County, Louisiana. In 1822, he moved across the Sabine to near where Hemphill is today, arriving 12 March. He received a land grant in Now Walker County 11 February 1835 for one league of land, starting about two miles northeast of the Walker County Courthouse. About 1798 he married SARAH (maybe WILEY) and they had six children in Georgia and one in Louisiana. i. Sara Elizabeth (1798-1856)married 1817 to James Schrier, and they moved to Walker County. They had ten children: Jesse James Calihan, William, Elizabeth, Lurana, John, Wiley R., M.B. Lamar, Harvey N., and Louisiana. ii. Mathew Arnold (17 May 1801 - 19__) married Mary Isaacs (c1824) and they had 12 children: Mahala, Jesse, Morris Moore, Perry, Wiley Jefferson, Washington (Wilson) Laffeyette, Andrew Jackson, Alexander Hamilton, Sarah Elizabeth, William (Willis) Houston, Amanda, Mary (Molly) Samantha. After the death of Mary in 1845, Cherokee County, he married Elizabeth Lowe, and they had 4 children: Rebecca, Susan, Isaac Lowe and Margaret Ann. iii. Wiley Parker (c 1803 - 10 March 1847) iv. Rebecca (1805- c1849) v. and vi girls born 1807 and 1809 and died before 1820 vii. Elizabeth born 12 April 1812, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana and married 13 January 1829 , in East Texas to Philip Haddix Coe, and they had 12 children: Rachel, Mary, Sarah Adeline, Elizabeth, Martha Ann, Louisa Jane (Jennie), Philip Houston, who died 1871 in Abilene, KS, Deliah, Eliza Ann, Hattie (Harriett) A., Georgianna (Georgie), Gabriel Houston. Elizabeth Ann died 16 March 1866 at Monthalia, Coe Valley, Gonzales County, Texas and is buried in the family cemetery. After Sarah died, Jesse married ELIZABETH BARKER in January 1829 and they had seven children: i. Jesse J. (died 8 November 1862, Civil War) married Nancy Ann Larrison. ii. Eliza (Louisa) T. married 17 December 1850 to Richard Ira Plummer and they had five children: Sarah Jane, Thadeus E., Mary Elizabeth, Richard Ira Jr. and Isaac Spurgin. iii. Mary Ann ,married Andrew Jackson Cox January 1. 1851. Walker County. and they had <Mary (<Molly) Ann and Elizabeth/ Andrew died and she ,married E. M. Berry. iv. REBECCA (BECKY) married Francis Marion Brown on 14 February 1856, and they had 12 children: ALONZO (Lonnie), John (Jack), Mamie, Annie, Bettie, and a twin that died, Ludie, Carl, David, Benton and three others who died at infants. v. Isaac Newton married 24 December 1867 to Mary Caroline Ashley, and they had nine children: Edmund, Frank P., Claude, Roberta, Robert, Jesse, Eliza, Houston and Linda Louise. Linda Louise died in Trinity after 1975. After Mary Caroline died Isaac Newton married Lou C. Palmer in 1905. vi. Nancy T. married Daniel Green McMillian and had Doll and Addie, per Birdie Parker Kopisch; vii. Samuel David b. 17 January 1846 and died 8 June 1912 in Walker County married Mary (Mollie) Ella Skelton on 15 December 1877 and they had 9 children: Melton, Earnest, Jessie Olivia, Arthur Lee, a baby girl died as an infant, William c., Josephine Prince, Ruby and Birdie died 16 February 1982, Temple, Texas and Ruby lives in Temple now 14 July 1984. JESSE PARKER raised cattle, horses, sheep, hogs, and farmed in Walker County. he also bought and sold land for a living. When he died he had several thousand acres of land in Walker, Houston, and Freestone Counties. he died 27 May 1849 at home and was buried near his home in the family cemetery. his wife Elizabeth was buried by him when she died 4 March 1898, their graves were moved to Oakwood Cemetery in Huntsville on 20 October 1979, on their son Samuel David's lot. On 17 March 1981, a Texas State Marker was dedicated on his grave. his name is on a monument at Franklinton, Washington Parish, Louisiana for War of 1812, and on a monument at Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas for Sabine epresentative in 1832. Bibliography: Hazel Page Mullis, "Texana, Vol. B. no. 2, 441, 1967; Veterans Files, War of 1812, Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Louisiana tax list, St. Tammany Parish, 1811 and 1812, 2; George Lewis Crocket, "Two Centuries in East Texas", 162, 1962; Dabney White, ED "East Texas, Its History and Its Markers, Sabine County, Texas, Vol. 1 and 3, p. 1222 and 1239, and 94. 1940; Worth S. Ray, "Austin Colony Pioneers", 177-178; "The Journals of the Convention of 1832"; "Biographical Directory of the Texas Conventions and Congresses, 149, 1941; William Moses Jones, "Texas Testimony Stone", 106, 1952, and "Texas History Carved in Stone", 107, 301, 1958; "Texas State Historical Markers; Probate Minutes (Walker County, Texas); 1820 Census, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, 26, and Jesse P. M. Lappe "Parker Family History" 28; Mary B. Bryan, "Passports Issued by Governors of Georgia 1785, 1809, National Genealogical Society Special Publication No 21, 52, 1959. Field notes (Texas State Land Office Spanish Archives); and "An Abstract of Original Titles of Record 132, 1938, (Reproduction 1964). by B. Elmer Spradley -- Paula in Texas http://www.flash.net/~barker Searching: FAULKNER, HICKS, FARMER, COKER, WILLIAMS, MARTIN, SUMMA (SUMMY), MALLORY, CAVE, WELCH, TERRELL, JAMESON, PRATT, CRABTREE, BARKER, BROWN, TITSWORTH, DOWNING, CAMPBELL, WEIR LESLIE, HUTCHINSON, CRAIG, WATT, PARKER , PRATHER,