CHEROKEE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - TOMBSTONE PHOTO - PARKER, Elisabeth KERR

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Cemetery:           Parker Family Cemetery Near Gaffney, South Carolina
Name:               Elisabeth KERR PARKER

Date Of Photograph: January 16, 2006
Photo can be seen at:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/sc/cherokee/photos/tombstones/parkercem/parker004.jpg
Image file size: 291.0 Kb

Tombstone inscription:
“In memory of Elisabeth Parker, died February 24, 1800, aged 53 years
I feel my power discarded
from this old fleshly clod
fair Guardian bear me up in haste
and see me near my God”

Buried in the Parker family cemetery near Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina


Additional Comments:
Elisabeth KERR PARKER was born about 1746 in North Carolina-- daughter of Joseph
KERR & Elizabeth MCKANE (MCKOWN or MCKEOWN).

She married Isaac A. PARKER and they had eight children:
Isaiah PARKER, Hannah PARKER, Elizabeth PARKER, Isaac A. PARKER jr., Vilet
PARKER, Thomas Lewis PARKER, Rachel PARKER, Silas Reese PARKER.