Lee County AlArchives Biographies.....Parker, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Andrews Hays - 1751 
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Bio of Elizabeth "Lizzie" Andrews Hays Parker - Lee Co., AL

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Andrews Hays Parker is buried at what is called the "Old 
Parker" or "Parker/Dupree Cemetery" in Lee County, Alabama.  According to 
her tombstone she died at age 110.  The date of her birth, according to her 
tombstone is 1751, but varies with census records which indicate as late as 
1767.  She died in 1862 in Lee County, Alabama.  

The little family cemetery located near the community of Marvin, is situated
on a knoll and is fenced.  An old small building adjoins the cemetery and is
approximately 10 x 10, and is reported to be an old one room schoolhouse 
used by area children.   At the time of her death, she was apparently living
with child, John Miles Parker, as he and his descendants appear to be the 
others buried in the cemetery.  It is an interesting thought that she had 
lived in three countries in her lifetime: an English colony, The United 
States of America, and The Confederate States of America.

According to the article published in The Southern Star on July 19, 1899, 
by W. L. Andrews, Elizabeth's family were Quaker's who lived on the Roanoke 
River in Virginia in 1750-80 and in 1752 three orphan children were left in 
the community.  They were Elizabeth, Folson or Thelston Andrews, and a baby 
sister.  Lizzie was adopted by a family and given a good education.  She 
had fair skin, blue eyes, brown hair, and weighed 108 pounds at 19 years of 
age.  She learned to dance and at the function given at the Quaker mansion, 
she was considered the toast of the every.  It is said she could run an old 
fashioned cotillion or reel, for the misty mazes of the round dance had not 
made its appearance then, with a glass of water on her head without 
upsetting it.

Lizzie first married Elias Hays about 1770, by whom she had a son, Elias 
Hayes, Jr, who was born Dec 24, 1783.  During her life with Hays, it is said
that George and Martha Wasington Stopped at her house and got a drink of 
water.  She described Martha Washington as a kindly disposed lady, 
unaffected with fashion or the dignity of her position before the world.

Lizzie married David Parker after her first husband's death.  They had the 
following children: Rebeccah, born October 25, 1788; Lemuel, born April 4, 
1790; Samuel, born September 1, 1792; Richard, born January 20, 1795; 
Israel, born December 10, 1796; Temperance, born April 16, 1798; Penelope,
born February 12, 1801; Sandrew, born September 30, 1805; John Miles, born
Aprill 7, 1808, and possibly Thelston, born December 25, 1815.  Thelston is 
listed in the Bible, but, due to his age, may have been a grandchild, 
rather than a child.  

The  Parkers moved from Virginia to Northampton Co, NC and on to Anson Co, 
NC.  They lived in Butts Co, GA near Indian Springs for a while.  Finally, 
they ended up in Russell/Lee Co, AL. Before the Civil War, Lemuel and his 
brother Israel, who married Carpenter sisters from Anson Co, NC,  moved to 
the Dale/Pike Co. AL area.

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