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William Alexander Parker[1]

Male 1735 - 1805  (70 years)


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  • Name William Alexander Parker  [2] 
    Birth 1735  , , Maryland, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Gender Male 
    Residence 1782  , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Death 1805  , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Residence 1820  , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Residence 1830  , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Burial Toshes, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Person ID I48264  Master
    Last Modified 26 Mar 2023 

    Family Henrietta Hyde Donnell,   b. 1740, , Fauquier, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jul 1823, Toshes, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years) 
    Marriage 1751  , , Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Benjamin Parker,   b. 27 Feb 1759, , Fauquier, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Oct 1836, Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
     2. William Alexander Parker,   b. 1760, , Fauquier, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jul 1839, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
     3. Henry Sterling Parker,   b. 5 Jan 1767, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Dec 1818, , Hardin, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years)
    +4. George Parker,   b. 5 Apr 1769, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Apr 1859, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years)
     5. Nancy Parker,   b. 1775, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jul 1829, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years)
     6. David Parker,   b. 1780, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jun 1824, , Hardin, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years)
     7. James B Parker,   b. Between 1785 and 1794, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jan 1827, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 42 years)
     8. Malinda "Milley" Parker,   b. 4 Sep 1785, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Jul 1854, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)
     9. John Parker,   b. Abt 1791, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Before 1870, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
    +10. Elijah Parker,   b. 1792, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1890, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 98 years)
     11. Abram or Abraham Parker,   b. Abt 1793, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1821, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 28 years)
     12. Joseph Parker,   b. Bef 1794, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1830, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 36 years)
     13. Sally Parker,   b. Abt 1794, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     14. Judith Parker,   b. Aft 1800, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F10977  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 26 Mar 2023 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1735 - , , Maryland, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1751 - , , Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1782 - , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1805 - , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1820 - , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1830 - , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Toshes, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • William Alexander Parker Family
      Toshes/Toler’s Ferry, Virginia.

      William Alexander Parker’s ancestors landed at the Cliffs, St. Mary’s County, Maryland, in 1635. Some of the Parkers migrated to the Baltimore and Washington, DC areas. William Alexander Parker, youngest of his family, moved to Fauquier County, Virginia. He then left Fauquier County and moved to Pittsylvania County in 1768 – to get away from the Indians and to raise tobacco. He and his wife built a home at Toshes, near Toler’s Ferry. It is believed that his wife’s name was Henrietta. Some of their children were David, Benjamin and George. It is told that William Alexander had two other sons who were killed at Braddock’s Defeat in 1755. David and Benjamin moved to Hardin County, Kentucky.
      David was there in 1820, when David’s wife accidentally used arsenic instead of soda when preparing their bread; poisoning herself, David and two of their children. Benjamin, David’s considerably older brother, became the guardian of his brother’s surviving children. Some of the Kentucky Parkers moved to Illinois, while others, during the early and mid-1800’s ventured to Texas (Fort Parker) where one of the Parker children, Cynthia Ann, nine years of age, was kidnapped during a Comanche raid in 1836. Cynthia Ann married a Comanche chief. One of her children was Quanah Parker, a well known Comanche chief, who made numerous trips to Washington, DC to negotiate on behalf of his people.

      -The Last Comanche Chief, The Life and Times of Quanah Parker, Bill Neeley, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc).
       
      George Parker married Frances Oaks and stayed at the home place in Pittsylvania County (Toshes). Frances Oaks is related to the Toler family – also spelled Towler. George was born in 1769 and died April 5, 1859. He and his wife are buried at the Parker/Rorer home place, Toshes.
      George and Frances had a large family. David Parker, one of their offspring, was born 1802; m. 1st Mary A. Toler (Toler’s Ferry), 1849; m. 2nd Mary Amanda Goggin, 1855; and they also lived in the same house as David’s parents, George and Frances (Oaks). It became the Parker ancestral home. Mary Goggin’s 2nd cousin was Mark Twain (Samuel L Clemens) (see Our Kin, Ackerly and Parker, Bedford County, Virginia families). Mary Goggin Parker had a brother, the Reverend Thomas C. Goggin, well known preacher in Bedford County during the 1800’s.
      Another one of George and Frances’ children was the Reverend Joseph Parker, who served a number of churches, and who was very well known and beloved during his lifetime. His farmhouse was renovated in more recent times, and is currently known as Bernard’s Landing (Smith Mountain Lake) in the Bedford, Virginia area. (Moneta). David and Mary (Goggin) Parker’s children were William (Willie) David, Penhook, Pigg River; George Stephen, Vinton, Va; Mary Emily (Emma) m. Jimmy Rorer (Emma and Jimmy Rorer established their residence at the old Parker home – in order to be with her aging and widowed mother, Mary Goggin Parker) – thus it became known as the Parker/Rorer place; and Charles (Charlie) Ross Parker, who m. Mary A. Tuck (Mary Tuck related to Glenns and Whiteheads of Pittsylvania County). Charlie and Mary lived on the Staunton River, Toshes, Virginia. The family attended Summersett Baptist Church. Alice Parker, wife of Giles Jefferson Morton was the youngest of their nine children. She lived in Pittsylvania County all her life.

  • Sources 
    1. [S761] Yates Publishing, Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree.

    2. [S1162] Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).

    3. [S36] Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp., Virginia, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.).

    4. [S1234] Ancestry.com, 1820 United States Federal Census, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia; Page: 74; NARA Roll: M33_140; Image: 140.

    5. [S252] Ancestry.com, 1830 United States Federal Census, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.), Year: 1830; Census Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia; Series: M19; Roll: 201; Page: 344; Family History Library Film: 0029680.

    6. [S751] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).


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