Sarah Hobbs 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: Abt 1788 - New York
    Christening: 
          Death: Aug 1852 - Indiana
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children 
1. *James Parker (5 Aug 1779 - 1834)
       Marriage: 
       Children:
                1. Lorenzo Dow Parker (1809-1841)
                2. Louisa Parker (1812-1888)
                3. Henry Nelson Parker (1814-1898)
                4. Orison Parker (Abt 1817-1845)
                5. Parley Parker (1821-1867)
                6. Russell Parker (Abt 1822-1841)
                7. Charles W. Parker (1827-1912)
Notes
General:
OBITUARY:

Mary Etta Parker, a daughter of Charles W. Parker and Marinda Drake, married D. J. Allen. A newspaper clipping in the Allen family Bible is an obituary of Sarah Hobbs Parker. The first part is missing. The Rev. Thomas Woolsey was the father-in-law of Sarah Parker Woolsey, one of the daughters of Henry Nelson Parker, a son of James Parker and Sarah Hobbs. Three obituary clippings in the Bible were sent to me by Jack Parker. '1852' might be '1853' and '1843' might be '1845'.

she never shrunk from the cross, but stood firm at her
post. She was not without her afflictions in this
world; she was called a few years since, to witness
the departure of a dear companion and three lovely
sons, which were called before her to the spirit world,
one of which was an itinerant preacher of Kentucky
Conference. Her companion was a local preacher at
the time of his death. She then left Indiana in the
year 1843, and settled in De Kalb county, Illinois;
where she lived in great peace with her children till
the year 1852, when she started to visit her friends
in Indiana, but never reached the end of her journey.
She was taken sick on the fifteenth of August; her
disease was considered cholera; she got within ten
miles of her journey's end; her children were then
sent for to witness the solemn scene of her depart-
use, which was not only peaceful, but triumphant.---
Her son approached her bedside and said, "Mother,
do you know me?" She clasped him around the
neck and said, "O, yes, my son, I know you." Then
she praised the Lord; she repeatedly said she had
got among her friends to die; she also repeated,

"I soon shall bathe my weary soul
In seas of heavenly rest,
And not a wave of trouble roll
Across my peaceful breast."

She often spoke of the joys of heaven that await-
ed her. The morning before she died, she said,---
"Don't you see these spirits all around my bed?"
The last words she uttered were, "Lord Jesus, receive
my spirit." Her sufferings are over, and she has
gone to swell the number of the redeemed in glory.
Yet still she speaks to us; though dead, she bids us
in her footsteps tread.

Thomas Woolsey

Handwritten in the margin is "wife of James Parker B 1779, D 1834 at Campbell Co. Kent".
picture

Sources

1 "Find-a-Grave."

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