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).

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.

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.