Twiggs-Wilkinson County GaArchives Biographies.....Parker Sr., Chesley 1810 - 1915
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Stacy Hill mcnstacy@gmail.com December 9, 2017, 5:29 am

Source: Family Research Record
Author: Stacy L Hill

Chesley Parker Sr was born in Chatham County NC in about 1810 to white 
father and black mother , probably a slave or freed slave . No information 
is available about her now . Chesley's father was John Parker who  later 
moved to Twiggs County in about 1816 after his wife gave birth to his 
daughter Mazy was born . For many years our family thought Chesley was white 
but he was half black and half white a mulatto . Chesley owned land across 
from the Vincent Tharp house , there is a state marker outside that house 
and it states that John Parker bought the property for $600.00 in 1832 and 
Chesley Parker and his wife Venus Curtis along with their children lived 
across the roadway , where it is Parker Rd today . These were free people of 
color that lived in Twiggs County GA . On one of the census their children 
had the last name Curtis after their mother and on the next Census they had 
their father last name Parker . My 2nd great grandfather Chesley Jr. was the 
first black deacon ordained at Stone Creek Baptist Church around 1860 when 
the whites and blacks attended the same church and Owned most of the 
property on both sides of Parker Rd .He also donated 1 acre of his land so 
that the black population could build their own Stone Creek Baptist Church .  

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