OLVA CLAYTON PARKER
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 609

Olva Clayton Parker, the proprietor of a well appointed 
undertaking establishment in Tucson and otherwise connected 
in an important way with business interests of the city, 
was born in Henry County, Tennessee, January 28, 1860.  His 
parents afterward removed to Anna, Illinois where he was 
reared and educated and where, after laying aside his 
textbooks, he became a clerk in the money order department 
of the post office. He came west to New Mexico journeying 
by stage from Kansas City and arriving in Las Vegas, April 
20, 1879.  For four years he was connected with cattle 
ranching in that section and also took part in the Lincoln 
County War, joining a company organized by general Lew 
Wallace. He served until the close of hostilities, a period 
of one and one half years and afterward fought against the 
Indians at Silver City, finally retiring from military life 
as senior major, New Mexico National Guard.

Mr. Parker came to Arizona in 1896 and spent two years in 
the undertaking business in Phoenix, after which he opened 
a similar establishment in Tucson. He carries a fine line 
of caskets and funeral supplies and a liberal patronage is 
accorded him, for his prices are reasonable and his 
integrity above question. He has other extensive business 
interests here, being president of the Hart-Parker Company, 
brokers and investors, a director in the Arizona National 
Bank of Tucson, and also in the Cochise Copper Company. He 
erected the Citizens Building in Tucson which he rented to 
the company for ten years.

In 1894 Mr. Parker married Miss Honerene M. McDonald, a 
native of Kentucky and they have three daughters: Malvene 
and Grace, both of whom were born in Las Vegas, New Mexico 
and Edith Virginia, whose birth occurred in Tucson.


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