Husband Lewis Parker 1 2
Born: 23 Mar 1798 - New York
Christened:
Died: 29 Apr 1863 - Pulaski Co., Kentucky 3
Buried: - Parker Cemetery, Elihu, Pulaski Co., KY
Father: Stiles Parker (1765-1847) 4
Mother: Dimmis Kaple (Abt 1773-1847) 4
Marriage: 17 May 1824 - Wayne Co., Kentucky 1 2 5
Wife Matilda DeForest Lockett 1 2
Born: 11 Jan 1803 - Virginia
Christened:
Died: 31 Jan 1867 6
Buried: - Parker Cemetery, Elihu, Pulaski Co., KY
Father: William Lockett (1772-1853) 7
Mother: Louisa DeForest (1767-1849) 7
Children
1 M John W. F. Parker 8 9
Born: 12 Mar 1825 - Wayne Co., Kentucky
Christened:
Died: 18 Dec 1910 10
Buried: - Somerset City Cemetery, Somerset, Pulaski Co., Ky
Spouse: Sophia Elizabeth Caldwell (1833-1907) 9 11 12
Marr: 17 May 1853 - Pulaski Co., Kentucky 13 14
2 F Louisa Lockett Parker 1 12
Born: 22 Feb 1827 - Wayne Co., Kentucky
Christened:
Died: 30 May 1908 - Pulaski Co., Kentucky 15
Buried: - Parker Cem., Elihu, Pulaski Co., KY
Spouse: Milton P. Buster (1824-1864) 12
Marr: 5 Nov 1846 - Wayne Co., Kentucky 16 17
3 F Mary Elizabeth Parker 1
Born: 4 Dec 1828 - Wayne Co., Kentucky
Christened:
Died: 7 Aug 1914 - Pulaski Co., Kentucky 18
Buried: - Parker Cemetery, Elihu, Pulaski Co., KY
4 F Sarah M. Parker
Born: 24 May 1830 - Wayne Co., Kentucky
Christened:
Died: 22 Mar 1913 19
Buried: - Maple Grove Cem., Russellville, Logan Co., Kentucky
Spouse: Isaac W. Emerson (1827-1909) 20
Marr: 28 Apr 1853 - Pulaski Co., Kentucky 13 21
5 F Jane K. Parker 1
Born: 4 Apr 1832 - Wayne Co., Kentucky
Christened:
Died: 21 Jun 1912 22
Buried: - Parker Cemetery, Elihu, Pulaski Co., KY
Spouse: John Bluford Mann (Abt 1824-1880/1900)
Marr: 6 May 1874 - Marion Co., Kentucky 23
6 M Lemuel DeForest Parker 2
Born: 22 Aug 1834 - Wayne Co., Kentucky
Christened:
Died: 9 Feb 1893 24
Buried: - Parker Cemetery, Elihu, Pulaski Co., KY
Spouse: Parmelia A. Tomlinson ( - )
Marr: 1 Oct 1857 - Pulaski Co., Kentucky 13
7 M Elisha Franklin Parker 1
Born: 13 Mar 1836 - Wayne Co., Kentucky
Christened:
Died: 7 Aug 1915 - Pulaski Co., Kentucky 25
Buried: 8 Aug 1915 - Lewis Parker Cemetery, Pulaski Co., Ky
Spouse: Eliza Ann Gover (1840-1886) 1
Marr: 12 Mar 1856 - Pulaski Co., Kentucky 13
8 M Lewis R. Parker
Born: 20 Apr 1838 - Wayne Co., Kentucky
Christened:
Died: 19 Jul 1906 - Los Angeles Co., California 26
Buried: - Grandview Cemetery, Wray, Yuma Co., Colorado
Spouse: Sarah Elizabeth Wade (1834-1912)
Marr: 22 Apr 1857 - Wayne Co., Kentucky 5
9 M Marshall Emory Parker 27 28 29
Born: 7 Jan 1841 - Wayne Co., Kentucky
Christened:
Died: 9 Jan 1923 - Navasota, Grimes Co., Tx 30
Buried: - Oakwood Cemetery, Honey Grove, Fannin Co., Texas
Spouse: Catharine Grinstead (1842-1928) 27 29
Marr: 7 Jan 1863 - Madison Co., Kentucky 13 27 31
10 F A. Evelyn Parker
Born: 5 Jul 1842 - Kentucky
Christened:
Died: 24 Aug 1911 32
Buried: - Oak Grove Cem., Paducah, McCracken Co., Kentucky
Spouse: George C. Crumbaugh (1834-1917)
Marr: 13 May 1875 - Pulaski Co., Kentucky 13 33
11 F Lucy Verlinda Parker 12
Born: 2 May 1847 - Wayne Co., Kentucky
Christened:
Died: 15 Apr 1918 - Wayne Co., Kentucky 34
Buried: - Elk Spring Cem., Monticello, Wayne Co., Kentucky
Spouse: Thomas Gore Harrison (1837-1906) 12
Marr: 25 Sep 1866 - Pulaski Co., Kentucky 13 35 36
General Notes: Husband - Lewis Parker
CENSUS:
<pre>1840 Wayne Co., Kentucky
Lewis Parker 2102001 -- 022001; 2 in agriculture, 1 in learned professional engineers; no slaves
male female
2 < 5
1 5-10 2
10-15 2
2 15-20
20-30
30-40 1
1 40-50 </pre>
<pre>1850 Pulaski Co., Kentucky, Division No. 3; Sept 30; pg 313
194/194
Lewis Parker 52 MW NY $5000 Farmer
Malinda " 47 FW Va
Mary Elizabeth " 22 FW Ky
Sarah " 20 FW Ky
Jane K. " 18 FW Ky
Lemuel D. " 16 MW Ky
Elisha F. " 14 MW Ky
Lewis R. " 12 MW Ky
Emily " 8 FW Ky
Lucy V. " 6 FW Ky </pre>
He is not in the Slave Schedule.
<pre>1860 Pulaski Co., Ky, District No. 2, p.o. Somerset; July 16; pg 16
99/96
Lewis Parker 62 MW NY $6000/$800 Meth Clergyman
Matilda D. " 58 FW Va
Mary E. " 32 FW Do
Jane K. " 28 FW Do
Marshall E. " 19 MW Do
Albina E. " 18 FW Do
Lucy " 13 FW Do
Elisha F. " 22 MW Do Farmer
Eliza A. " 20 FW Do
Arabella " 3 FW Do
Sally " 1 FW Do </pre>
He is not in the Slave Schedule. The "Do" for "ditto" clearly refers to a "Kentucky" which the census taker left out, not to "Virginia".
HARDIN CO., KENTUCKY:
See notes under his father.
On August 30, 1820 Stiles Parker of Hardin Co. sold to Lewis Parker of Hardin Co. for $130 the western part of the tract that he had purchased from John Rhodes in 1819. It is a rectangle 85 1/3 poles east-west by 125 poles north-south and contains 66 2/3 acres. It is part of section 4 and starts at a stake in a fen at the SE corner of section 3 in range 2 of Granger's big tract. The witnesses are John Parker and Stiles Parker, Jr. (H/100) In December of the same year Lewis's brother John bought the remainder of their father's land.
On August 3, 1832 Lewis Parker of Wayne Co., Kentucky sold to Rufus Smith of Hardin Co. for $100 the 66 2/3 acre tract that he had purchased in 1820. (N/2)
MARRIAGES:
In Wayne County, Kentucky Marriages and Vital Records 1801-1860 June Baldwin Bork indicates that Lewis Parker (Methodist Episcopal Minister of Gospel) performed marriages in Wayne Co. from 15 Feb 1824 to 1845. She found none for the period 1825-31 and for 1844.
PERSONAL HISTORY:
Parker in America, pgs 454-56 (J. W. F. Parker, May 1904). See notes under Stiles Parker.
In 1824, father married, in Wayne Co., Ky., Miss Matilda DeForest Lockett, daughter of Wm. Lockett. The Locketts came from Virginia at the beginning of the 19th century. My mother's second given name, DeForest, was her mother's maiden name. In 1828 father located and settled at the native home of mother, in Wayne Co., Ky.
He was not a professional millwright, but he had mechanical igenuity, and had in his youth some experience in mills. He bult a grist mill to a water-power afforded by a big spring that had determined the location of my grandfather Lockett's settlement. This mill was rather primitive, but proved a great help to the people of the country (generally farmers), enabling them to have better bread. He was induced by this success, and by the solicitations of citizens, to buy a more ample water-power and build an improved mill, provided with French burs and appliances, which then far exceeded any other flouring establishment in a wide extent of country, drawing custom from neighboring counties. But a few years after its completion it burned down. How, however, though in financial strait, he proceeded to rebuild, and made a mill with yet greater improvements, one that has long been the pride of the country, and yet, after sixty odd years of usefulness, prepares the bread of the people. But about 1845 or 6, growing tired of some debt entailed by former outlays and the fire, he exchanged the mill for a farm a few miles away, and for two or three years practiced agriculture exclusively -- only he delivered one sermon a week, at least, all his life. But now being appealed to by numerous petitioners of Pulaski county, he purchased a mill seat in this county, some thirty miles from where he had lived, and again built a mill. Thus he became a citizen of Pulaski, living near Somerset, till his death in 1863. It is curious, at least to remark here, that the farm on which he last lived in Wayne Co., is now a famous location of oil wells. The old place is now a forest of derricks, and the land is perforated with wells, some of which are yielding abundantly; and the old homestead is in the heart of a region becoming the most famous in the country.
For further glimpses of my father's career and its close, and his character, and the esteem of his memory, I will give you a copy of a sketch furnished by Rev. J. D. Walsh, D. D., of the M. E. Church, for some historic use:
You asked me for something in memory of my father, and you mentioned specially some inscriptions on his grave stones. I refer you to the "History of Methodism in Kentucky," by Rev. A. H. Redford, Vol. 3, p. 194, where there is some account of his work and character as a minister. He was never a politicain, as is ordinarily meant; but he was not indifferent to the affairs of government. He deprecated slavery, and in the revision of the State Constitution, 1848, advocated the adoption of the enabling clause for gradual emancipation. But he deplored fanaticism and respected law. With an ardent desire for elevation in all human affairs, he was prectically conservative as to every organization of society, from the family to the nation. He was grieved at the division of the church, and disapproved separation; but at home, in the South, he served his society, and worshiped with fellow Methodists and fellow Christians. However, when he moved from Wayne Co. to Pulaski, in 1848, in taking his letter, he asked for the word "South" to be omitted, and so received his letter of transfer.
When the Civil War broke out, the large co. of Pulaski was out of the way of railroads and telegraph lines. When the news of secession had spread, the people on a county court day gathered, in mass, to hear the reports and consider what should be done. They were in the Southern section, if not sectional. Politically the people had been pretty equally divided as Henry Clay whigs and Jacksonian democrats. My father was then a whig. At this crisis citizens assembled, unorganized, undetermined, uncommitted. The occasion called forth from father, with others, a short address. I have been told by men of intelligence, who were present, that in their opinion, his few words and the fervent tone that impressed them did more than any other one thing to fix the sentiments and determine the action of the people of this part of the state, who proved so loyal to the government and true to the Union.
He said: "Mr. Lincoln was not our candidate. I, with most of you, fellow citizens, voted against him. But he was elected and has been inaugurated, and now he is our President; and it is our duty and it should be our glory to stand by him and uphold the government."
In 1861 the 12th Ky. Inf. was being made up at Camp Hoskins, in father's meighborhood. He preached for the "boys" Sundays. After a while he told me he was petitioned by officers and men to become their chaplain. I favored, saying they will probably be about here for months to come, and when they go away too far you can resign. But he said, "No, if I accept a commission I will participate in their service and share their destination."
He spent much time in the hospitals and looking after the sick. From the battle of Logan's Cross-roads (Mill Springs) he came home ill with typhoid fever. Thence he lay and lingered long and low. When he was but partly recovered his interest in his regiment and the movement of the armies was so great that he hastened to his post in the field. The Bragg-Buel campaign followed, and when the marches and the counter-marches of the armies, and the bloody fight of Perryville were over, and the wonderful snow of October 20, had covered the bloody ground and borne down the green forests, his sons found him at Louisville, a very sick man, and brought him home to go to war no more.
On a gracful eminence crowned with cedars, vines and fragrant shrubs, and encircled by the craggy canon of Pitman Creek, at the middle of the 19th century, he made his home, and called it "Cedar Hill." He tendered it a preaching place as long as he lived. Here surrounded by some of the most romantic views in Kentucky, in the shades of a sunny grove, some of the most eloquent discourses ever delivered by John G. Bruce were inspired; and here that great man, in cherished companionship, enjoyed some of his happiest weeks.
Upon a broad terrace wooded and evergreen, which rises high above the cliffs, toward a still more lofty summit father planned to build a church; and was preparing for it when the Civil War began. But great and unexpected changes transpired. The charm of the scenery ever remains; but through its labyrinths a great railroad now meanders at the half way between the queen city on the Ohio and the majestic Lookout on the Tennessee. There is no church; but upon this mount of stratified rock, as the living throng and the heavy commerce of a great country speed by its base, his name commands the hush of death. Here his quiet grave is marked by a pillar of native stones capped by a granite die, on which his sons and daughters have written:
Father, mother, sister, brother,
And children dear,
How silent here!
Low lies each heart and head,
Their names may fade,
These stones dissolve,
And countless ages yet revolve;
But earth and sea--
'Tis God's decree--
Shall surely yield their dead.
At my father's death he was a commissioned officer, Chaplain, of the 12th Ky. Inf., U. S. V. Having spent much time with the sick he contracted typhoid or "camp" fevr, and died of its lingering sequels. Thus at the age of 65 he fell a victim of the Civil War. He was a man of medium stature, but in his prime of far more than average strength.
In May, 1888, there was a reunion of the brothers and sisters, with some relatives, at the old homestead, "Cedar Hill."
Father, Lewis Parker died, as has been seen, in the midst of the Civil War. His widow lived till 1867, and all their children survived till 1893, when the second son died, the only one yet dead.
LAND in WAYNE COUNTY:
In The Kentucky Land Grants, Part 2, by Willard Rouse Jillson in the section "Grants in County Court Orders" we find 2 tracts surveyed for Lewis Parker. The date is the date of the survey.
Lewis Parker 200 acres Bk 5/pg 13 8 Dec 1838 Wayne Elk Sp. Cr.
200 acres Bk 23/pg 524 24 Dec 1846 Wayne Beaver Cr.
Lewis Parker, F. M. Goddard, and John Lee each had a one-third interest in the first tract, and in the Wayne County Treasurer's Report for 1838 in a list entitled "land sold and money received up to September 24, 1838" we see that they paid $10 for 200 acres. ("Wayne Co., Ky Marriages and Vital Records", vol 1, June Baldwin Bork, pg 218)
On July 8, 1839 Lewis Parker paid $433.33 1/3 to Thomas Isbel for 15 acres on Elk Spring Creek, including the saw mill, deeded to Isbel on August 9, 1836 from G. C. Martin & Rosannah Martin and Thomas Hansford & Margaret, his wife. It is described by metes and bound, and the phrase "crossing creek to a stake on L. Parker's line" suggests that it adjoins property already owned by Lewis Parker. (Bk H, pgs 95-96)
On March 25, 1848 Lewis Parker and Matilda, his wife, of Wayne Co. sold 6 tracts in Wayne Co. to Micajah Phillips, also of Wayne Co., for $3800 (Bk K, pgs 177-79). The sixth tract is described as "an undivided 1/3rd interest which they hold in 200 acres in what is commonly called 'Missouri Hollow' Patented to Lewis Parker, Francis M. Goddard, and John Lee by Commonwealth of Kentucky on June 3, 1840". The fifth tract is a 15 acre tract on which a saw mill is erected, which tract they hold by deed from Thomas Isbell and which was deeded by Hansford and wife and Martin and wife to Isbell on August 9, 1836. The metes and bounds description mentions John Francis's corner. Each of the first four tracts is "embraced in a title bond given by Thomas Hansford to said Lewis Parker" It is not clear how Lewis Parker acquired them, but the repetition of names (Hansford, Hutchison, Francis) suggests that they and the fifth tract were located close to each other. These 4 tracts are
1) a tract of 11 acres on Elk Springs Creek on which there is a water grist or flouring mill and wool carding factory which was conveyed from Elijah Hutchison and Isabella, his wife, and William Hutchison to Thomas Hansford on November 21, 1823. It is described by metes and bounds and is part of the John Francis survey.
2) a tract of 32 acres on the road from Monticello to Burksville. It is described by metes and bounds and is subject to a conveyance from Thomas Hansford to Nathaniel Shrewsbury.
3) a tract of 65 acres on Elk Spring Creek. The metes and bounds description mentions crossing Beaver Creek.
4) a tract of 16 acres, being part of 105 acres conveyed by Elijah Hutchison and wife and William Hutchison to Thomas Hansford and which he did not sell to Nathaniel Shrewsbury. It is described by metes and bounds.
A large map on the wall in the County Clerk's office in the courthouse in Monticello indicates that Elk Springs Creek flows into Beaver Creek in the southern part of modern-day Monticello. Missouri Hollow is about 2.5 miles south of Monticello.
On October 30, 1850 Lewis Parker of Pulaski Co. sold to Cosby Oatts of Wayne Co. for $1 a tract of 200 acres in Wayne Co. on the waters of Beaver Creek held by patent dated July 13, 1848 unto Lewis Parker. The tract is described by metes and bound and it is said that "this boundary contains 250 acres 50 acres of which has been heretofore entered leaving 200 acres registered 13 July 1848". (Bk L, pg 219)
LAND in PULASKI COUNTY:
On July 6, 1848 Andrew J. James, divisee and adm. of John Evans, dec'd, and Mary A. James, his wife, of Pulaski Co. sold to Lewis Parker of Pulaski Co. a tract of 300 acres on Pitman's Creek in Pulaski Co. for $1000, due in 3 payments, the first due "1st of June past", the second due March 6, 1849, and the third due March 6, 1850. The payments are secured by notes with John B. Curd as security. There is a complicated metes and bounds description containing "thence immediately across the creek to Gover's line on the west side and with Gover's line up the west side of Pitman's Creek to Gover's corner on the brink of the cliff above the mill thence S 70 W 6 poles to Onsley's corner at Gover's Gate. Thence Onsley's line N 37 E 76 poles to a plumbtree and hornbeam at the south end of the upper old dam Onsley's corner . . ." Thus it appears that there was already a mill on the creek. (Bk 13, pg 420)
On June 19, 1854 Lewis Parker for $25 released Andrew J. James from covenants of warranty on land purchased July 6, 1848. (Bk 16, pg 374)
A deed of September 26, 1882 from M. E. Parker and his wife Kate to J. W. F. Parker indicates that the 300 acre tract was inherited jointly by Lewis Parker's 11 children. (Bk 34, pg 138)
PARKER in AMERICA:
On page 461 of Parker in America Stiles O. Parker makes the following statement about his uncle, Lewis:
Rev. Lewis of the 6th, was father of Dr. John W. F., born 1825; Louisa L., born 1827; Mary E., born 1828; Sally M., born 1830; Jennie K., born 1832; Lemuel D. (Rev.), born 1834; Elisha F., born 1836; Lewis R., born 1838; Marshall E., born 1841; Albina E., born 1842; Lucy V., born 1847 -- 7th generation.
METHODIST PREACHER:
The following long excerpt is on pages 194-98 of Volume III of The History of Methodism in Kentucky (A. H. Redford, 1868). Lewis Parker attended the 1822 conference in Lexington and in 1825 he and Evan Stevenson were appointed to the Danville Conference. "Under the warm and earnest preaching of these devoted men the community were so fully awakened that the court-house became too small to contain the congregations, and they had to repair to the market-house." The book can be read online at
http://archive.org/details/historyofmethodi03inredf.
Pages 194-98:
Lewis Parker was born March 23, 1798, in Ontario county, New York. "His father, Stiles Parker, who was also a local preacher, was formerly a Presbyterian, and embraced Methodism, which became the common faith of the family, under the preaching of Samuel Haw, who was a kinsman. In 1815 Lewis, with his father's family, removed to Ohio, and the next year, to Hardin county, Kentucky. In 1820, he professed religion and joined the Church, at a camp-meeting. He was probably never counted a very wicked young man, but, according to his own account, he was stubbornly opposed to the pious influences that surrounded him. Upon the occasion of his conversion, he had been upbraiding his people for the waste of time and their foolish enthusiasm; and suiting his practice to his theory, he started with tools to do a piece of work, refusing to attend the meeting; but by a fall, he severely cut his hand. The wound not only disabled him then, but it stiffened two of his fingers for life. Shortly after he became a member of the Church, he attended a grammar-school, in Hart county, Kentucky. The circumstances of his family, though respectable, in that primitive time, had not afforded him an education. While going to school it was thought, from the seriousness with which he pursued his studies and the selection of his reading - Benson's Sermons, Edwards on the Will, and Spoonover's Works - that he expected to preach." He was licensed in 1821, admitted to the Kentucky Conference on trial the same year. His first appointment was to the Sandy River Circuit, in Jackson's Purchase, as the colleague of Benjamin T. Crouch. In his Diary Mr. Crouch speaks of Lewis Parker as "an excellent colleague," and refers to his labors in the most flattering terms. He continued a member of the Conference until the session of 1829, when he retired to the local ranks. During the period of his ministry as an itinerant preacher, after remaining one year on the Sandy River Circuit, he traveled the John's Creek, Wayne, Somerset, Danville, Logan, and Greenville Circuits, the last mentioned two years. While traveling the Wayne Circuit, on the 17th of May, 1824, he was married to Miss Matilda De Forest Lockett, who most worthily shared his name and destiny, and blessed him to the close of his life. It cannot but be regretted that the force of circumstances demanded that Lewis Parker should locate. It was certainly a sacrifice that should not have been required. The meager provision that was made for the support of our fathers in the ministry rendered the location of many of them an imperative duty. He possessed an aptitude for the pastoral work that made him exceedingly useful. His native genius, his well-stored mind, his courtly and prepossessing manner, his ardent piety, and his burning zeal, not only made him highly acceptable to the Church as a preacher of the gospel, but rendered him everywhere a welcome guest and a useful minister of Jesus Christ. After his location, he settled in Wayne county, where, with the industry that had distinguished him in the itinerant ranks, he devoted himself to the support of his family. The demands of the Church, however, upon his ministry, were not disregarded. The popularity he enjoyed as a traveling preacher, followed him to the local ranks; and during the forty years in which he sustained that relation to the Church, it never waned. In every community within his reach his ministry was earnestly sought by the Church, and whether at his own regular appointments or on camp-meeting occasions, he preached in demonstration of the Spirit and with power. Familiar with the doctrines of the gospel, he was among the ablest defenders of Christianity, and with burning words not only impressed the people with his earnestness, but with the momentous truths he delivered. "His appointments were as regular as those of a settled pastor, while the intermediate Sabbaths were left for special services. His own house was for the last twelve years a preaching-place on Somerset Circuit, and embarrassed, and struggling to free himself, his contributions were, for the support of the gospel, 'more abundant,' amounting one year to no less than one hundred and sixty-five dollars. When told that it was too much, he answered, 'You must allow me to judge in this matter.' God smiled on him and his offerings, and when death came, he 'owed no man anything but love.' His house was ready. He was a Methodist, yet not a bigot. He published, a few years since, a tract on 'The Mode of Baptism,' which received the commendation of eminent scholars and divines. No man in South-eastern Kentucky exerted a more extended and beneficent influence over the Methodist public than he did; and to none is the Church in that section more deeply indebted for her stability and success." The following extract from a letter written by his son, Dr. Parker, of Somerset, will be read with interest:
"He had always entertained the hope that he might reenter the Conference, and die at last in the active duties of the pastorate, but he never realized his wishes. He died at Cedar Hill, Pulaski county, April 29, 1863, in full assurance of eternal life. The very afflicting and painful disease that broke his well-preserved constitution and destroyed the once powerful man, was borne with fortitude, supported by that hope he had long prized above all temporal conditions. Upon a serene summit, at Cedar Hill, his late residence in Pulaski county, Kentucky, where he had selected a site for a church and chosen his burial-ground, rest his remains - by his side his beloved wife, and around him several grandchildren.
"Of his character as a Christian and a minister: religion with him was without ostentation - it was not outward only, it was not occasional ; he was, under all circumstances, religious, and though he made no sacerdotal display, there was a sincerity in his manner and an apparent conscientiousness in his habits that generally commanded respect for his piety. He was very apt to reprove unblushing sins committed in his presence, even by strangers: this he did so disinterestedly, with such respect for Divine authority, and charity toward men, as to give no personal offense. After his experience in the army, he said that while among soldiers several months, he never knew one of his own command to use profane language in his hearing without apologizing or expressing some regret. His preaching was altogether extemporaneous; his composition was most marked by the terse, compact, and pointed stating of his arguments; no superfluity; he was always earnest and impressive, and his exhortations were fervid and direct. As a Methodist, he was well indoctrinated, and was prompt - not supercilious - in defending the doctrines of his Church. During the early introduction of Campbellism in Kentucky, he was one of its most formidable obstacles, and had frequent debates with its popular advocates in Southern Kentucky."
CHILDREN:
Three of the six daughters married a preacher. Two of the five sons were preachers. Two of the sons and one son-in-law were in the Kentucky legislature. One son was a physician, one was a farmer, and two were carpenters (as well as farmers).
PARKER CEMETERY:
South of Somerset, turn south from Hwy 914 onto Hwy 1247, about 1/2 mile south of Pitman's Creek turn left onto Jones-Knob Road, go about 1/8 mile and then turn right onto Merial Harris Road. The cemetery is a small clearing on the left side of the road a few hundred feet from Jones-Knob Road. In the middle is a large monument. The base is a piece of rusticated gray granite about 5'x5'x12". On top of that is another piece of rusticated granite about 3'x3'x16", and on top of that is another piece of granite about 2'x2'x30" with a shallow pyramid on top and inscriptions on 4 sides.
West side:
LEWIS PARKER
BORN
IN N.Y. MARCH 23, 1798.
MATILDA D. LOCKETT
BORN
IN VA. JAN. 11, 1803.
MARRIED MAY 17, 1824.
HE DIED APRIL 29, 1863
CHAPLAIN OF 12TH KY.
SHE DIED JAN. 31, 1867.
THEIR CHILDREN ALL ELEVEN LIVED 'TILL 93.
South side:
LEM. D. PARKER
BORN AUG. 22, 1834.
DIED FEB. 9, 1893
PREACHER, CHAPLAIN,
BARRISTER, LEGESLATOR.
"I BELIEVE IN GOD, IN JESUS
CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD, AND
IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.
I BELIEVE IN THE REMISSION
OF SINS, THE RESURRECTION
AND ETERNAL LIFE."
East side:
FATHER, MOTHER,
SISTER, BROTHER.
AND CHILDREN DEAR.
(NOT ALL ARE HERE.)
LOW LIES EACH HEART AND HEAD
THEIR NAMES MAY FADE THESE
STONES DISSOLVE
AND COUNTLESS AGES YET
RESOLVE.
BUT EARTH AND SEA,
'TIS GOD'S DECREE,
SHALL SURELY YIELD THEIR DEAD.
North side:
"MR LINCOLN WAS NOT OUR
CANDIDATE. I WITH MOST OF YOU
FELLOW CITIZENS VOTED
AGAINST HIM, BUT HE WAS
ELECTED AND HAS BEEN
INAUGURATED, AND NOW HE
IS OUR PRESIDENT, AND IT IS
OUR DUTY, AND SHOULD BE
OUR GLORY, TO STAND BY HIM
AND UPHOLD THE GOVERN-
MENT"
REV. L. PARKER, PUBLIC ADDRESS 1863.
The following are known to be buried in this cemetery, but are without markers.
("Pulaski County Ky Cemetery Records", pg 340)
Louisa Parker Buster 1827 --
baby girl Jones
Jennie Parker Mann 1832 -- 1912
Annie Parker 1881 -- 1888
Arabella Parker 1857 -- 1864
baby Parker
Elizabeth Ann Gover Parker 1840 -- 1886
Elisha Franklin Parker 1836 -- 1916
Jennie Lockett Parker 1876 -- 1877
Lemuel D. Parker 1834 -- 1893
Mary E. Parker 1828 --
Sallie Parker 1858 -- 1938
Sallie W. Parker
Polly Thomas
CIVIL WAR:
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky 1861-1866,
Vol 1, pg 840 -- Roll of the Field and Staff of the 12th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry:
Lewis Parker, chaplain, enrolled January 18, 1862, died date unknown.
Vol 2, pg 941 -- Alphabetical list of officers:
Lewis Parker, chaplain, 12th Infantry, residence Somerset, Ky, died.
See Vol 1, pg 854 for summary of regiment's action.
Index to Civil War Pension Applications:
Lewis Parker -- Chap 12 Ky Inf.; widow Matilda D. Parker
1864 Apr 27 -- widow; application no. 50481; certificate no. 80272
MIDDLE NAME:
One often sees 'Lewis Rousseau Parker'. I have never seen any documentary reference to a middle name or even to a middle initial. Note that on his tombstone he is simply 'Lewis Parker' whereas his wife and son have a middle initial. His grandson and my grandfather, Lewis Parker, had no middle name.
