MONROE COUNTY, GA - BIOGRAPHIES   W.H. Parker

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'MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA", Historical and Biographical Sketches, by S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., PUBLISHED IN 1896.

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W. H. PARKER, planter, Strouds, Monroe Co., Ga., son of
Christopher and Sallie (Stroud) Parker, was born in Monroe
County, March 29, 1832. The family is of Irish origin, and
settled in North Carolina some years before the
revolutionary war, in which Mr. Parker’s grandfather, John
Parker, was a soldier. He removed from North Carolina to
Georgia and settled in Putnam county late in the last
century, and after several years’ residence there moved,
about 1803 to Monroe county, where the family has since made
its home. Of a family of six children, none are living. Mr.
Parker’s parents were born (his father about 1806) in Monroe
county, where they were also married. To them twelve
children were born: W. H., the subject of this sketch;
Seaton, deceased; Frances, Wife of Joseph Dennis, Ark.,;
Sarah, wife of James Rodney, Roanoke, Ala.; L.B. deceased;
Mary, deceased wife of Fletcher Owens, Pike county, Ala.;
Amanda, widow of a Mr. Fambro, Atlanta, ; Levi, enlisted in
the Confederate army and killed in Pickett’s famous charge
at Gettysburg; John, deceased; Christopher, Arkansas; Owen,
Arkansas, and Sallie, deceased; an unnamed infant, which
caused the death of the mother in 1859. Mr. Parker’s father
was a man of great energy, very prominent and popular. He
was a democrat, but such was his popularity that in the
forties he overcame a whig majority of 200, and was elected
to represent the county in the general assembly. He was a
"war" democrat, and though exempt by age from military duty,
he enlisted and served through the war, becoming the
adjutant of his regiment. He was a master Mason and a member
of the Primitive Baptist church. He died June 3, 1893. Mr.
Parker was reared and educated in Monroe county, where he
has made a life-business and a very successful one, of
farming. He was married in Monroe county to Miss Nancy,
daughter of Eleazor and Mary

Adams, Nov. 11, 1853, but whom he has had two children, one
an unnamed infant, and Eunice, wife of E. C. Elder,
Barnesville, Pike Co., who is the mother of five children:
William, George, Samuel, Eunice and John. On a splendid
1,000-acre plantation, eleven miles south of Forsyth, 500
acres in cultivation, producing 150 bales of cotton, Mr. And
Mrs. Parker are spending their declining years. He lived
after the war a few years in Barnesville, but superintended
his plantation. He is a very positive man, prominent in
county affairs, a royal arch Mason and himself and wife are
members of the Missionary Baptist church.