Taylor Co., TX - Newspapers - Major R.H. Parker's Daughters

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Taylor County, Texas - Newspaper: Major R.H. Parker's Daughters

Major R.H. Parker's Daughtes Came to Abileen in 1883 to Join Father,
Infant Town's Lumber Firm Manager

Five invitations to Abilene's 56th birthday party to be held March 15 at the Hilton Hotel, have
been issued to five sisters, three of whom now live in Abilene, and all of whom came here in 1883.

They are the Parker sisters - Mrs. Samuel R. Cox (Maggie), Mr. George W. McDaniel (Lavinia),
Mrs. Tom Willis (Sallie), Mrs. D.P. Woodward (Neva), and MRs. Bettie P. Kelley.

With their mother, Mrs. R.H. Parker, four sisters and a brother, they came to Abilene on 
Dec. 31, 1883. Major Parker, the father, had been in Abilene since 1882, coming here to take 
charge of the J.G. Hayes Lumber Co., a branch of a Shreveport company.

When the firm was sold, Major Parker opened his own lumber company at South Second and Elm streets
where the Franklin Motor company now stands. He later moved across the street, on the spot where
the Coca Cola Bottling Company now is, and built his home - the first two story frame house in 
Abilene - just west. Major Parker lived there until his death in 1896. Mrs. Parker died in 1924.

Only members of the family still living at the five sisters.

Mrs. Cox, 1042 Hickory, is married to another old-timer. He came to Abilene Nov 28, 1881, and resided
on a ranch near Ft. Phantom Hill several years before moving to Abilene. Mrs. Cox was the widow of
Dr. Samuel W. Field, and during his life lived in Mexico, Houston, and Beaumont, returning here shortly
before she married Mr. Cox.

Mrs. McDaniel's husband came to Abilene in 1889. He purchased lumber from his father-in-law to build
a home at 774 Butternut, and from the time of his marriage until his death on May 20, 1931, lived there.

In the pictures
THe five Parker sisters have been sent invitations to Abilene's 56th birthday party which will be
held at the Hilton hotel. They are left to right: Mrs. George W. McDaniel of Abilene, Mrs. Bettie F.
Kelley of Denver, Colo., Mrs. Tom Willis of Abilene, Mrs. D.P. Woodward of Lubbock, and MRs. Samuel R.
Cox of Abilene. Portraits of Mrs. Willis and MRs. McDaniel by Cluck Studio; photograph of Mrs. Cox by
Osborn.)