Long County GaArchives Photo tombstone.....Hampton Cling Parker 
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Cemetery: Jones Creek Baptist Church Cemetery
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Hampton Cling PARKER, born 29 Apr 1825, died 11 Jun 1902 and married Catherine 
BAGGS on 19 Feb 1852 in Liberty Co, Georgia.  His parents were William Hall 
PARKER, born about 1750 in "Newborn", NC, died Mar 1838 in Liberty Co. GA, and 
Anna Susannah HIERS.





Additional Comments:
Hampton Cling Parker was a distinguished member of the Georgia Senate, a 
justice of the inferior court, a member of Jones Creek Baptist Church for fifty-
three years, and a a deacon for over forty-eight.

Early in the war, Hampton joined the "Altamaha Scouts," 25th Georgia Infantry, 
and served about six months as quartermaster before being discharged for 
disability. However, when Sherman crossed into Georgia in May '64, Hampton and 
his brother-in-law, Hendley Home, responded to Governor Joe Brown's call to 
arms and joined the Georgia Militia in time to participate in the Battle of New 
Hope Church. Both were hospitalized at Marietta, then managed to get to Macon 
where they bought a boat and floated down the rivers to Beard's Bluff. Hampton 
walked on home, and sent back for Home who was suffering with fever.


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