MILTON OBITUARIES, Henry County, Missouri
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MILTON, Sue Y. PARKS 1861 - 1921

Clinton MO, 1921 - Mrs. S. A. Milton Died - At the home of her daughter, Mrs. 
Robert Meek, in Ft. Smith, Ark., Saturday evening, at 5 o'clock. She was stricken 
with paralysis the morning before while giving a music lesson and death came 
quickly and as she would liked to have it come, when she was busy with her work. 
Some months ago she suffered a stroke of paralysis and bedfast about a week. 
Soon after she came up and made an extended visit here with her brother and 
sister. She enjoyed being here and meeting her old friends and had planned to 
return and spend the month of January. Sue Y. Parks was born at the home of per 
parents, the late Judge and Mrs. Jas Parks, near Calhoun, July 31, 1861. On August 
31, 1862, they moved to Clinton and this had been her home since with the 
exception of the last four years she had lived with her daughter, Mrs. Robert 
Meek, in Ft. Smith. She was educated here and completed the Clinton High School 
in 1879. Meanwhile she had taken up the study of music under Mrs. A. P. Frowein 
and had become very proficient. She commenced teaching music when very young 
and had large classes both in Clinton and the surrounding towns. She also used 
her talent for her church and for many years served as organist and pianist at the 
Baptist church. She played with rare skill and interpretation, which made her 
playing a pleasure to all who heard her. Since going to Ft. Smith she again started 
giving lessons and her recitals and the work she did with her 7 pupils was a 
delight in that city, and attracted much attention. She married Dr. S. A. Milton 
Sep 13, 1881. Their married life was very happy, both leading in the intellectual 
progress of Clinton. Both were members of the Baptist church. She taught for 
many years in the Sunday school, doing a great work with the young people, who 
loved their bright, happy faced teacher, who brought to them each Sunday a Bible 
lesson worth while. She also took an active part in the Bible class of the church, 
and was always ready to do what she could for those about her. She visited the 
sick and afflicted, bringing cheer and news of the outside world into their homes. 
Her husband died about four years ago and her youngest daughter, Anna, several 
years before that. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Robert Meek, Ft. Smith, 
Ark.; and one son, Allen Milton, in California; and five grandchildren. She also 
leaves one brother, Peyton A. Parks, Clinton, and two sisters, Mrs. C. C. Dickinson, 
Clinton, and Mrs. Laura Harris, Idaho Falls, Idaho. Her son and Mrs. Harris could 
not come for the funeral. Her body was brought to Clinton Monday, accompanied by 
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Meek and taken to the home of her brother, Peyton A. Parks, 
where the funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon, after which she was 
laid in Englewood beside her husband. The pallbearers were: A. L. Armstrong, J. B. 
Redford, J. G. Callaway, W. J. Livingston, R. H. Piper, and R. L. Covington.

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