Dale County AlArchives Photo person.....Mayors of Ozark 1870-1970 (J.W. Parker) 
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  J. W. Parker
    1895- 1896

  John W. Parker was born in Georgia, December 5, 1831. At the age of two 
months he was stolen from his cradle by Indians while his. mother was attending 
household duties. He was taken to a swamp nearby where he was found the next 
morning by a search party.	
  He was reared and educated on the farm, and at the age of twelve, his parents 
brought him to Russell County, Alabama,	where he lived until 1848, when they 
moved to Dale. He attend-ed the Ansonville Male Academy 
in North Carolina for eight months.
  In the fall of 1858 he entered the Primitive B.aptist Church,
and became a minister of that denomination. In connection with both farm and 
church he opened a stock of general merchandise at Swain's Mill. In 1886, he 
was elected to the office-of probate judge. In March 1854, he married Miss Mary 
Ann McDonald.
  He died February 3, 1909, and he and his wife are buried at Union Cemetery.

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