PARKER FAMILY CEMETERY, Worcester Co., MD

Located west of Snow Hill between MD354 and the Pocomoke 
River not too far north of Porter's Crossing Road.  It has recently 
been cleared and the stones cleaned.

(via farm road, 0.65 mile or c. 3400 ft north of Porter's Crossing 
Road)
Worcester County Election District #2
Tax Map #48, Parcel #51


S.W.
GRAVE #1
In memory of
Col. CHARLES PARKER
Son of Selby and Elizabeth
his wife
Born March 22nd 1789
Died Jan 31 1858
Aged 68 years 10 mo 9 da

GRAVE #2
SACRED
To the memory of
AMELIA PARKER
Consort of Col Charles Parker
Died the 20th March 1846
Aged 50 years

GRAVE #3
The inscription on this headstone for this grave was copied by J T P 
Dryden during the summer of 1950.  By the fall of 1982 when Ames 
Pennewell cleaned this cemetery, this headstone was missing.  The 
initials A.C.B. on the extant footstone are those of Ann C. Brindle, 
a daughter of Charles and Amelia Parker)

Sacred to the memory of
ANN C. BRINDLE
Consort of the Rev. J. A. Brindle
of Philadelphia Conference
departed this life
April 11, 1854
aged 33 years.

GRAVE#4
In Memory of
MARY PARKER
Consort of Selby Parker
Born Jan'y 9, 1765.
Died April 29, 1832.

GRAVE #5
SACRED
to the memory of
SELBY PARKER
who died April 20TH 
1829
aged 77 years

N.E.
GRAVE #6
SACRED
to the memory of
EMELINE PARKER
Daughter of
Charles and Amelia Parker
who was born Jan 3rd 1819
and who died April 10th 1833


In the summer of 1950, J T P Dryden also transcribed from another 
headstone the name of another Selby Parker, a son of Charles and 
Amelia Parker, who was born on June 30th 1816 and died on May 21st 
1830 (this headstone also missing by the fall of 1982).  Also in 1950,

 George Ewell Dryden removed from the site a fieldstone with the 
initials E.P. and the date 1806 (both crudely etched on the stone) 
and took same to his residence in Stockton, MD.  This fieldstone is 
now in the possession of his son, John Thomas Parker Dryden in 
Orlando, FL.  The assumption is that this may be the marker for the 
grave of Elizabeth Truitt, the first wife of Selby Parker and the 
mother of Col. Charles Parker.  Anyhow, great-great-grandmother 
Elizabeth Parker's 1806 tombstone greets all "trick-or-treaters" on 
each All Hallows Eve.

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