Death Notice for Milton Parker PARKS (b.1830 NH d.1862 MN), Blue Earth Co., MN
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Death Notices for Milton Parker PARKS (b. 1830 NH, d. 1862 MN) Resident 
of Blue Earth County, MN; soldier in the Minnesota Mounted Rangers 1862.
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Source: Newspaper
Mankato Weekly Record
Saturday, 6 December 1862
Page 3: Column 1; Reads as follows:
 
DEATH OF A SOLDIER. – Milton [Parker] Parks, clerk of Captain Austin's 
cavalry company, died at St. Peter [Nicollet County, MN] on Thursday. – 
He was taken with the black measles, and died in less than twenty-four 
hours from the first attack.  Mr. Parks was an excellent young man and 
highly esteemed by all who knew him.  His remains passed through this 
place [Mankato] yesterday for Vernon, his former residence.
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Source: Newspaper
St. Peter Tribune
Monday, 8 December 1862
Page 1: Column 7; Reads as follows:

Under - LOCAL AFFAIRS

SUDDEN DEATH. – On Tuesday morning of this week, Milton P. Parks, a 
member of Capt. Austin's cavalry company was taken ill, and died on 
Wednesday at one o'clock. 
The physicians pronounce the fatal disease to be black measles.

Mr. Parks formerly resided at Fox Lake, Wisconsin, but removed to 
Minnesota in 1857.  Wherever he has lived, his pure character and 
unspotted career have won for him the esteem of all, and charitable 
deeds have been a portion of his existence.  Whenever a good act was 
to be performed, no one entered into it more cordially; and that noble 
quality which "covereth up a multitude of sins" manifested itself in 
him to an unusual extent.  Without attachment to any religious creed, 
his life was eminently Christian, and entitles him to the rewards 
which God has promised to the just.

[His grave is in the Garden City Cemetery, Blue Earth County, MN.  
It is marked with a GAR cast iron star.  Information in brackets 
added by the transcriber – William W. Porter on 7 August 2004]