Charles Olmstead Parker 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: Oct 1851 - Kentucky
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Parents 
         Father: Zenas Dean Parker (1807-1897) 1 2
         Mother: Laurinda Searles (1811-1861)
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General:
CENSUS:

<pre>1900 Washington Co., Va, Bristol City, 2nd Ward, ED 144; June 4; sheet 4A
67/71 314 Moore Street
C. O. Parker Oct 1851 48 M0 Ky Ky Ky Civil Engineer
Sallie C. " wife Apr 1867 33 M0/0/0 Ms Ms Ms
Lois " dau Sep 1878 21 S Ky Ky Ms
Miss E. " dau Aug 1886 13 S In Ky Ms
Zena " dau Oct 1888 11 S Ga Ky Ms </pre>

He rents a house. There are 2 female boarders, 13 and 19, in the household.

PARKER IN AMERICA:

Charles O. Parker's contribution to Parker in America is on pages 458-460. The contribution of his brother Stiles O. Parker is on pages 460-462. Both report the research of Lorenzo Dow, q.v. The following is on page 458:

Mr. C. O. Parker of Abingdon, Va., a cousin of Dr. J. W. F., furnishes the subjoined genealogy, which he preludes with a brief sketch of his own family, as follows:

My family now consists of my second w., Mrs. Sallie (Cowan) Parker, and my three daus.: Lois (26), Elizabeth or Beth (18), and Zena (16). Lois is now (1904) in New York, employed by the Century Publishing Co., in their "Dictionary" department. She has been in New York over a year, and is much pleased with her work. Beth has been going to school at one of the girls' colleges here, Stonewall Jackson Institute. Zena has been staying at home with us.

Em. is at Guthrie, Okla., visiting her niece, Kate Cornelison, my bro. Ed's dau. Al. is at Houston, Tex., where he has a clerical position with the So. Pacific Railway in auditor's office. Stiles is still at Cincinnati, working in Car Acc'ts office of the Q. & C. R'y. His res. has lately been changed to Norwood, O., one of the suburbs of Cincinnati.
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Sources

1 H. S. Hurley, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com db: parker-howe.

2 Augustus G. Parker, "Parker in America," 1911, pg 461. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.

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