William Parker: Cousin's Letter

We're kin* (see relationship notes below) to the Parker family through our grandmother, Carrie 'Mae' (Merritt)  Musgrove (blog post here).

Carrie 'Mae' Merritt

We've blogged about our fifth great-grandfather, Henry Parker, the second president of the Georgia colony (blog post here). His son (or grandson) was rumored to be William Parker, Sr., who married the daughter of German immigrant Johann Michael Lastinger (blog post here). Our Parker line is included in Aurora Shaw's book, John Lastinger Family of America, published in 1960 because of this marriage (link here).

Henry Parker: President of Georgia

We last blogged about our fifth great-grandfather* (see relationship notes below), German immigrant Johann Michael Lastinger (blog post here). We used Aurora Shaw's 1960 book, John Lastinger Family of America (link here). She devoted the third section of her book to his daughter, Sarah, who married William Parker.

Aurora Shaw

Mary Jane (Williams) Merritt

Our great grandmother,* (see relationship notes; the bottom of page) Mary Jane (Williams) Merritt, was born on February 4, 1867, in Pearson, Georgia when her father, Allen Raymond Williams, was forty years old and her mother, Sarah (Parker) Williams, was twenty-four.

Sarah (Parker) holding Mary Jane Williams
Allen Raymond holding Calvin GW Williams

Calvin Greenberry Washington Parker

Calvin Greenberry Washington Parker was a great uncle* (see relationship notes at the bottom of page) of our grandmother, Carrie Mae (Merritt) Musgrove.

Calvin Greenberry Washington Parker

Calvin was the half brother of our third great grandfather, William (Short-Armed Bill) Parker, Jr., whose home was attacked by Indians. He was the uncle of Sarah Parker who married Allen Raymond Williams. The Parker and Williams family were founding members of the Little Utah Mormon Church.

Grandma Musgrove and our Parker Lineage

Our grandmother, Carrie (known as) Mae Merritt, was born on April 1, 1910, in Bickley, Georgia. Both her parents, George (known as) Henry Merritt and Mary Jane Elizabeth (known as Mamie) Williams, were 43. 

Carrie Mae (Merritt) Musgrove

Incident at William Parker's Place: Conclusion

In Andrew Jackson's Second Annual Message to Congress in 1830:

The Last Indian Fight in Berrien County

Note: Relationships, such as grandmother, 2nd great, etc., are expressed from the perspective of the grandchildren of Willis Edgar and Carrie (known as) Mae (Merritt) Musgrove.

The blogpost "Incident at the Parkers" (here) is about an Indian attack on our 3rd great grandparent's house, (William) Short-Armed Bill (b. 1804 d. 1865) and Betsy (Edenfield) Parker (b. 1813 d. 1895).

Announcement of the election of Levi J. Knight to 
Major General of the Militia, Milledgeville Recorder, Dec 8, 1840.

In the same post militia commander, Levi Knight writes a letter to the governor of Georgia the day after the conflict.  

In the blogpost, Allen Raymond Williams and Sarah Ann Parker (here) is a transcription of the story told by Sarah Ann (Parker) Williams,  our 2nd great grandmother, at her 86th birthday party. And Judge Preston Ward told his story in the blogpost  Incident at the Parker's: Episode 2 (here). 

Incident at William Parker's Place: episode 2

We know about our lineage in large part because of Folks Huxford. According to the Huxford Society website;

Judge Folks Huxford.

Allen Raymond Williams and Sarah Ann Parker

When great-grandmother* (see relationship notes below) Mary Jane Elizabeth Williams was born (on February 14, 1867, in Pearson, Georgia), her father, Allen Raymond Williams (born on March 13, 1826, in Barnwell, South Carolina), was 40. Her mother, Sarah Ann Parker (born on June 5, 1842, in Coffee County, Georgia), was 25.

Incident at William Parker's Place

This story is about an Indian raid on the Parker house before grandmother (Merritt) Musgrove's grandmother, Sarah Ann Parker, was born to William Parker, Jr. and his wife, Elizabeth Edenfield.