Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Parks, Capt. John Wythe October 13, 1879
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Donna Bluemink http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008395 March 3, 2017, 4:14 pm

Public Ledger, October 14, 1879
DEATH OF CAPT. JOHN W. PARKS - Many of our citizens will learn with pain that 
this gentleman, so well know in our city and surround country, breathed his 
last yesterday afternoon, at the Hospital of St. Vincent de Paul, of 
consumption, after a confinement of a few weeks. Capt. Parks was a veteran of 
two wars, having served in the Navy during the was with Mexico, and 
participated in the bombardment of Vera Cruz. He resigned in 1852, and pursued 
peaceful avocations until the late war broke out, when he entered the 
Confederate service as an engineer. Since the war he has been employed on the
Albemarle
Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal, and personally superintended the dredging 
operations on that work. He was a man of noble impulse, generous to a fault, 
and was much like by all with whom he was thrown in contact. His funeral will 
take place a 4 o'clock this afternoon, from the residence of his brother, 
Marshall Parks, Esq., on Freemason St.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/p/parks12851gob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/

File size: 1.5 Kb