Franklin-Shelby-Fayette County KyArchives Biographies.....Parker, Sallie (Sarah) Ann Clarke December 3, 1832 - April 9, 1924
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T. Bradford Willis http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00031.html#0007638 October 11, 2012, 2:32 pm

Source: Family Record
Author: Lavinia McDaniel Ward 

SARAH ANN (SALLIE) CLARKE PARKER

Grandma Parker was born December 3, 1832, at Frankfort, Kentucky. She was one 
of 11 children born to Joseph and Harriet Julian Clarke. The mother died when 
Sallie was six years old. Later Joseph married a cousin of his first wife. 
Harriet's father, Charles, and her grandfather, John Julian, were both 
physicians. They had been educated at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. 
Dr. John Julian (a Revolutionary War physician) had married Margaret Isabelle 
Lounds of Scotland. Her father and brother were both physicians in Scotland. 
The Julian family members, (known as "St. Julians" in Paris, France), were 
Huguenots in the home country. They settled in Scotland after the persecution 
in France, later coming to America and making their home in Virginia.
On November 20, 1851, Sallie Clarke became the bride of Robert H. Parker in 
Frankfort. After living in Frankfort several years, the couple moved to 
Burlin, Missouri, and later back to Kentucky-at Lexington. Then they moved to 
Texas, as stated in Grandpa's sketch.

The Parkers reared three grandchildren and an orphan boy, besides their own 
large family. They were the grandparents of 35 grandchildren and numerous 
great-grandchildren. Most of their children were reared in a country home, 
remote from churches in their early years. Grandma taught them the catechism 
(from memory), and brought them up by the strict rules of Christian living. 
She had been raised in a Presbyterian home, her father having been an elder in 
the Kentucky church and her grandfather (Mathew Clarke) likewise before that. 
She joined the church in Frankfort when she was eleven years of age.
Grandma was the oldest member of the First Presbyterian Church (Abilene, Texas)
at the time of her death April 9, 1924. She was a Sunday School teacher for 
many years, and was an active worker in church activities and in the "Ladies 
Aid Society".

Just one week to the day before she died (at age 91) she visited the new 
church building at 4th and Orange accompanied by Mag and Vene (daughters). 
While there, she dropped to her knees and offered a prayer. The previous 
Sunday she had attended services as usual in the Carnegie Library Auditorium, 
where the congregation worshipped while the new building was under 
construction. This was her last attendance at church. Two weeks later her 
funeral service was in the new church sanctuary-the first to be held there. At 
her last request, favorite songs of hers were sung, and eight grandsons were 
pall-bearers-four each from the Willis and McDaniel families. She was buried 
April 10, 1924, beside the grave of her husband on the family plot (Masonic 
Cemetery of Abilene, Texas) near Roberta (her daughter), and Nellie's baby son.
Our Parker grandparents came from good "stock" on both sides. They left us a 
fine heritage of which we should be proud.

Written by Lavinia McDaniel Ward in 1984 for the Parker-Willis reunion in 
Abilene, Texas.


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