Calhoun County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Parker, Julia P. (Green) 
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Cemetery:           Oak Hill
Name:               Julia P. (Green) Parker

Date Of Photograph: 2014
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 Julia Parker
1841      1917
Born      Died
Sept. 6   Mar. 4

Additional Comments:
Lot 81, Rt. 6

Obit posted by Debra Stanley:
MOTHER AND SON DIE
AT HOME HERE SUNDAY
Frank Parker Succumbs Sunday
Morning And Mrs. Julia Parker
Died Last Night
The death angel summoned two
from one Battle Creek family Sunday.
Frank P. Parker, janitor at the city
jail, died Sunday morning at four
o'clock at the family residence, 138
North Union Street, and his mother,
Mrs. Julia P. Parker, passed away
on Sunday night at ten.
Mr. Parker was 56 years of age
and had been ill but a week. The
mother, who was the widow of the
late William L. Parker, was 76. She
had been in ill health for five or six
years, but on February 22 took to
her bed. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Ogden Green, were pioneers of Battle
Creek, Green Street being named
for the family. Mrs. Parker was a
member of the Maple Street M. E.
church, and was once actively engaged
In work there, but failing health
compelled her to give It up. Her hus-
band will be remembered as having;
been sexton at Oak Hill cemetery for
years.
Surviving members of her family
are a daughter, Mrs. Ida M. Kocher
of Lansing and two sons, Edward U.
Parker of this city and William O.
Parker of Lansing.
A double funeral will be held from
the home, 138 North Union street,
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock with
the Rev. William chapman, pastor of
the Maple Street M/H. church, in
charge. Committal will be made at
Oak Hill cemetery.

The Battle Creek Moon Journal, March 5, 1917

(I know it says husband in the news article but it should say 
father when it talks about the sexton of the cemetery for years)

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