Carroll County GaArchives Biographies.....PARKER, HENRY G. 1841 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Elizabeth Robertson lrober@plantationcable.net July 27, 2004, 10:48 am Author: S. Emmett Lucas, Jr. HENRY G. PARKER, farmer, Mandeville, Carroll Co., Ga., son of John and Margaret (Byrum) Parker, was born in Pike county, Ga., in 1841. His paternal grandfather, Enoch Parker, came from North Carolina to Georgia in 1795, and settled in the woods in Lincoln county, where his father was born in 1800. His maternal grandfather, Beverly Byrum, was a native of North Carolina, came from there to Georgia in an ox-cart early in this century, and cleared himself a farm and a home it1 the virgin forest. Mr. Parker was reared in Pike county,- worked on the- farm, and went to school only four days. In 1862, he enlisted in Company H (Capt. Redman), Forty-fourth Georgia regiment, and remained in the service until May, 1863. He was in two hard fought battles-Gainesville and Sharpsburg, in which last his company had twenty-six killed. He lost his right leg, and being thereby disabled for further service, came home. He went to Coweta county and lived there and farmed until 1875, when he removed to Carroll county and bought a nice 300-acre farm, which he has paid for and so improved as to make him a comfortable home. He came out of the war a very poor and a disabled man, yet has secured a good home by his own industry and economy, and reared a not small family of children. Mr. Parker was married in 1868 to Miss Sarah Cannon -born in Pike county -daughter of George and Mary (Elliott) Cannon, who were among the early settlers of Pike county. This union has been blessed with eight children: Jennie, Mary, Henry S., George, Lizzie, Ella, Harriet and Leila. Mrs. Parker is a member of the Protestant Methodist church, and Mr. Parker is worthily. held in esteem by the community in which he lives. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/carroll/bios/gbs56parker.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb