William Dean descendants (Down to Frederick and Lucy)
Benjamin Dean consistently lived in Phillipstown township, just west of Kent township, Putnam county New York in 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850. No will seems to exist for him.
If these Sons of The American Revolution pages (1 2) are correct, perhaps this is Benjamin's father John (and probable brothers) in Dutchess County New York, just to the North of Putnam, in 1777. He would have lived in this area. This was not in the famed Beekman patent, but just to the southwest. John Deane is listed (middle of the page - among many other Dean/Deane names) with a large [4-2-6-0-0] family in this 1790 Dutchess county New York census transcription (1790 actual). The below histories of Steuben County New York state that this is the same John Dean (d. 1823) buried in Thomas cemetery in Pulteney township. The 1820 Pulteney township census does not show any Deane families and this 1825 census does not appear to have John Dean but does have his son William N Deane at the end.
Parks and Dean data from 2015 SLC research trip
Additional S.A.R. applications (1 2 3 * 4 5 6 * 7 8 * 9 10) led to these pages which state that John and his probable brothers served with the 7th regiment, Dutchess county militia:
1897's Third Annual Report of the State Historian for the State of New York contains 1760 muster rolls with a John Dean in Dutchess county: 1 2 3 and a Cornelious Brown (Westchester county) in 1761 : 1 2 and 1762 (after a potential growth spurt and modification of birth location?): 3.
Are these our men in the war immediately preceding the Revolution? Note that the neighbors for this John Dean above do not at first glance appear to match names of William Dean's 1762 "neighbors" below. The vast majority of these two sets of names just don't seem to match. Also, "our" John's probable brothers Caleb, Ezekiel, and Benjamin are absent.
A closer look, however, reveals the neighboring surnames Merrick, Hamlen, Fuller, Terry, Barber, Crosbie, and Worden/Wooden, and Ravelje/Rapelyea in the lists AS WELL AS the specific matching names Abraham Hartwell and Comfort "Loudinton" on page 561. This Comfort commanded one of the units in the militia later on, according to pension applications below.
In addition, surnames on this muster list match the 1799 tax list for: Hopkins, Cole, Covey, Frost, and Jones. Further, this John Dean's age appears to match the tombstone entry (or, conversely, may be it's source) in Steuben County New York. Obviously other descendants already came to this conclusion also as this would seem to be the source for his French and Indian Wars service listed in some S.A.R. applications above.
The "official" New York Comptroller's Office's : 149 150 151 152,
Berthold Fernow's 1887 New York in the Revolution: 283 284 285 286 - 355 356
Harlo Hakes' 1896
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1912 Historical and Genealogical Record Dutchess and Putnam Counties New York: 445 446-447 and
J.H. Beers & Co's 1897 Commemorative Biographical Record of Dutchess County, New York: 566 (or this later derivative source with a couple of additions like a musket)
William Richard Cutter's 1912 Genealogical and family history of central New York : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation: pp 15 and 16 (and it's impossible ancestry for John, William and Ezra Dean)
The situation and type of lifestyle the families of Dutchess county endured, and the type of service John Dean and his brothers probably provided cannot be verified from any pension applications from Dean men. They had all died before the June 1832 congressional act that motivated the pension applications. But, several applications have been found from men who lived in the area John Dean lived in and served in militia units with him. Samuel Drew, William Drew, Job Austin, Nathan Conklin, Jonathan Pinkney, Joshua Gregory, Samuel Gregory, Reuben Ganong, John Christian, William Christian, William Barrett, Josiah Hotchkiss (HeritageQuest unfortunately omitting this page on Cornelius Brown costs - and actions - following the war), Daniel Squier (another), Isaac Ferguson, Elisha Gifford, and Israel Brown. Two things become crystal clear when we review these records: 1) HeritageQuest does not have complete pension records on their site! 2) The pension review board decisions appear to be completely arbitrary with rejections despite seemingly ample evidence. In hindsight, with the benefit of the mass of application statements, we can see that of course many more of these men qualified than received benefits.
We will keep looking for others but the pattern is likely to be the same. Motivated young men, enlisting or being called from alarms and serving to the best of their ability. None specify Baker's company (which Dean's S.A.R. descendants say he was a member of) but they were nearly all members of his Colonel's regiment and so even if the exact details vary, John was likely to have been called numerous times for short cycles, was likely to have been at King's Bridge or Peekskill, would have known of the British driving Washington from New York (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12), would have known of the battles, the threats of the British ships up the Hudson, would have known the fear of British marauders thieving from family or friends, and would thus have been immersed in the Revolutionary War in a way unlike most of our other ancestors. This was personal and visceral to John Dean and his kin.
John Dean's tombstone from this cemetery - as recorded in Find A Grave.com!
More info (Overview map map2 map3) more info, more info more info a map another map a map of 1776 engagements, and another map
But, at least Lucy's ancestry appears to be solved! It would seem that the combined evidence nearly proves that Benjamin Dean was Lucy's father as Momnie stated. 1) Benjamin certainly had a daughter of the appropriate age. 2) Next he lived nearly next door to Frederick in 1830 (and, in 1820, near Frederick's likely brother Joseph - born sometime between 1774 and 1794, likely around 1780-1785 based on the 1812 reference). 3) Next, we find that Benjamin and his wife are buried with Ann, the wife of Jerome B (Brown?) Dean. Looking back at the 1850 census records, a page before Benjamin are Jerome (born in 1812) and Ann Dean in 1850. 4) Finally, although Benjamin, Niles, and James Dean all have sons old enough to be Jerome's age (David does not), only Benjamin is the good candidate for naming his son (middle name, that is) after a "B" - Brown for Jerome's mother's name of Brown. Niles married a Nancy Northrop based on the Steuben works above. A review shows that this pattern of using middle names to keep maternal surnames in the family fits the pattern of our own Jerome Dean Parks quite well.
Jerome also appears in 1860 (after Benjamin's death), in 1870 (2 doors from his sister) and 1880, still in Phillipstown, Putnam County, New York, just immediately west of where Frederick Parks had lived in Kent township. Catherine and her husband have moved to Kent. It is nearly certainly this Jerome who is identified to the West of Benjamin in the 1854 map!. Thomas Thompkins, Woolsey Light, Jerome Dean, Horton family, and Benjamin Dean coming south down the road - we can "watch" the census taker as he made the rounds!
It seems Benjamin Dean and his wife Christeny (Brown?) Dean were buried in the Bethel Baptist Church of Shenandoah. This was either just north of the border in Dutchess county or the author of the work included the cemetery in her work due to its proximity to the border of Dutchess. This is the area in Googlemaps in July 2014. Notably, at least 3 other families (neighbors) of Benjamin Dean are also buried here, Daniel Brown, John A Miller, and David Horton and their wives.
In the 1820 census an elderly man and woman have moved next to (or, perhaps, on the same property as) Benjamin and his wife. A probable grandson stays with the elderly people, likely to help care for them and call for help, if needed. This man is named Cornelius Brown. This is Cornelius in 1790 (the page immediately after John Dean's 1790 page above) 1800, in an 1804 selling of the 1800 land (1 2), and in 1810. Here are the 1799 (and a Cornelius Brower Jun in 1799), 1800, 1801, 1802, and 1803 tax records for this man. It is likely the same Cornelius Brown who appears in Westchester county New York (immediately south of Dutchess county at the time) in 1761 (1 2) and 1762 muster rolls - source. The name seems very distinct and the age and location seem to solidify the connection. Of course, this is not certain evidence, but one suspects this is the same man. These may well be Benjamin Dean's in-laws who seem to have died sometime after this 1820 census. Cornelius may have served in the Revolution also, although the S.A.R. application (1 2) is completely useless. Fold3 proves both John Dean and Cornelius Brown not only served, but both did so in Col. Morris Graham's regiment in September 1778 (pp: 63 64 66 67), albeit in different companies - John Dean in William Pearce's and Bell's: 1 2 3 * 4 5 * and possible (but unlikely 6 7 8 9) - source; Cornelius Brown in Elijah Townsend's (A B - source): 1 2 * 3 4 5. Note many of the names match the names of neighbors in other documents, Nathan Conklin, Chase, Townsend, Ganong, Morehouse, etc. That John and his brothers served in Henry Luddington's regiment with Cornelius (and received their certificates immediately after Cornelius - though numbered just before) AND that John Dean and Cornelius further served in Graham's regiment would seem a good baseline from which their children would later build towards marriage. Cornelius' costs, from Josiah Hotchkiss' pension request, above, are a fascinating look at the times, even were Cornelius not likely an ancestor!
It is clear that the names in Morris Graham's September 1778 regiment muster (see bolded 66) match most of the names in the Philipse Patent 1777 tax list above (i.e. John Drake, Daniel Wilsie, Josiah Gregory, Peter Maybee, Barzillai/Bazley King, Nathan Lane, Solomon Hopkins, the Dean men, and the Penney surname, among others). The linkage between the 1777 and the 1799 lists above is possibly less obvious, but neighbors Joseph Dykeman, William Colwell, Nathan Crosby, Obadiah Chase, Samuel Haight/Hayt, Isaiah Hopkins, David Frost, Moses Fowler, and the Dean men, among others, proves it is the same area and neighbors.
It is possible that this is our Cornelius buried in Norfolk, Litchfield county Connecticut in 1821, but the facts we have don't exactly match up and it seems unproven why Cornelius and Mary would travel back east to die when they were safe with Benjamin and Christena. Possibly to see or live with other children who were in the 1810 census? The ages roughly match, the death dates are appropriate (both Cornelius and his wife were still alive in 1820), the name is an unusual one, and Norfolk, Litchfield is not so far away. Source is Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions vol. 36, Connecticut, Hale Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934 up at Ancestry.com. Map. It seems probable that the above Cornelius is the same who married Mary Loomis in January 1778 (source). This doesn't appear to be the Cornelius of Westchester county, New York who is still old and living in 1830. There is no Cornelius in Litchfield Connecticut in 1790, 1810, or 1820, but there is one in 1800 when we have records for "our" Cornelius in Dutchess county New York. Is this our man, after all? At this point it cannot be ruled out but the evidence can't conclusively be accepted either.
Now we know what Jerome D. Parks' middle name really was and where he got it from. Jerome Dean Parks - he was named for Lucy's younger brother! This may also explain, incidentally, the 2 puzzling references Jean Leighton received from Isabel Parks Hiltbrunner (in addition to adding/confirming the Dean name also, upon a closer re-reading of this) who dimly remembered that grandfather Parks (who had been assumed to be Frederick Parks) was a doctor. Frederick was not a doctor (that we have any evidence for) but there is some internet discussion that his brother/nephew/cousin Joseph was!
Another review of the names of Lucy Parks' children shows the youngest named Lucy Christena Parks. It now seems blindingly obvious that this daughter was named both for Lucy and Lucy's mother. Lucy's mother would die the following year.
This reference indicates Lucy's sister Catherine married before her father's death. Lucy's family has already moved to Iowa.
This gives death and burial data on another of Benjamin's sons (again, assuming the SAR document is correct, as it so far seems to be).
Frederick Parks
Frederick Parks was born at the beginning of the nineteenth century, 1801, in Connecticut. There were 33 Parks families listed in the Connecticut census index for 1800. There were 35 families listed for the 1810 index. It is probable that he was born to one of the numerous Parks families in New London, Windham, or Letchfield counties. Toland and Fairfield counties had only one and two (respectively) Parks families in 1800. In 1810, the situation was much the same, with only one family in Fairfield county and one in Hart. county. He states in one of the later census returns that both of his parents were of American birth, so it must have been his grandparents or earlier who immigrated to this country. He married a woman named Lucy who was about 10 years his junior in New York (her birth state) about 1826 or 1827. Lucy likewise states that her parents are of American birth in the 1870 census. In 1840, we find him listed in the census of Putnam county ( link is my transcription) of Southeastern New York with: 2 male children under 5yrs old ( Jerome D. born 26 Jan 1838 and Fred Jr born 1835), 1 male 15 to 20 yrs old, Frederick (listed as between 40 and 50 yrs old), 2 daughters between 5 and 10 yrs of age (Elizabeth and Sarah), 1 female 15 to 20 yrs of age, and Lucy (listed as between 30 and 40 years of age). Interestingly, a Frederick Parks appears in the 1840 Township 66 North Range 5 West - Half Breed Reservation, Lee county Iowa census as well, probably indicating that Frederick went there first to secure a place for his family before he went back east to collect them and return. From Iowa Genweb website, the following data equating township numbers to townships:
65-66 - - - - Des Moines Township
66 - - - - - - Montrose Township
66-67 - - - - Van Buren Township
Brewster Mining Case in New York - prominently featuring a Frederick Parks that may be ours
Ancestry.com Oneworldtree downloaded 17 July 2007 may have some more detailed dates. This fits available data if the two additional children did not live and if we discount the location of Lucy's birth. Cannot, unfortunately, find submitter data. There does not appear to be a record of Sarah's genealogical submission to LDS church, of which the biography below states she was an early member. There is no Frederick or Fred Parks in 1830 New York census as of 22 Feb 08. Lucy is reported in early census returns (1850 & 1856) to have been born in 1848 in Iowa.
Many, Many deeds records in Putnam county for Joseph and Frederick Parks (and both, either selling or mortgaging one to the other) confirm a relationship, but do not hint at what the relationship is. Mortgages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 - index - index - index - index - index * 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 - 39 40 41 42 43 44 - 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 * 68 69 70 71 * 72 73 * Benjamin Dean: 74 75 76 77 - deed index - deed index - deed index - deed index * Probate index
MUCH Better organized page with metadata on above Putnam county deeds of Joseph and Frederick Parks
Actual 1840
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next page is Carmel County NY with a
Henry Deane & family (possible relatives of Frederick’s wife)
Sometime in 1846, Frederick moved his family to Montrose township, in Lee county, Iowa and listed his occupation as Farmer. It is quite possible that the 1840 reference above is in what became Montrose, and the 1846 and/or 1848 references are inaccurate.
This history of Lee County Iowa discusses some of the litigation that occurred to deprive Native Americans of their lands (lands that Frederick appears in in 1840, at top of page): 1 2 3. It is possible that Frederick purchased these lands from the New York Land Company described in this history.
Frederick Parks is listed in the 1848 Iowa
state census, but the census doesn't tell us more than that he was in the state
in 1848. There is no entry for
Frederick in Lee county
Iowa, so it is possible that the Parks’ were not in Lee
county in 1848. More work needs to be
done here.
In the
1850 Lee county, Montrose census, taken the 31st
of August, we find Fred, Lucy, a 19 year old daughter Elizabeth, 17 year old
daughter Sarah, Frederick Jr., Jerome and Lucy Christina, born in 1848 in Iowa.
Sarah, Jerome and Frederick Jr have attended school within the year. Frederick
Park's assets total 1500 1850 dollars. Here in this census we find the first
mention of a neighbor, Henry Parker and his daughter Sophia, 53 and 19 years
old respectively, both born in England with total assets of 140 dollars.
In the 1856 state census, (original from Ancestry.com 14 July 2007) Frederick and his wife have only three children with them, Fred Jr, Jerome, and Lucy Christina. In the 1860 federal census, Both of Frederick's sons have left. His real estate is valued at $4500.00 and his personal estate is $700.00. For this period, the combined estate value of $5200.00 is not a small one. 1860 agricultural census returns pt2
It may have been at this period
that the house they all lived in faced the river.1 Frederick Parks
was the grandfather of a coal-man Fred P. Barber, who seemed popular at the
time a series of historical articles on Montrose were written for a local
paper. From
one of these articles, the following story:
"Not many of our people know that
Montrose once had a tobacco factory, but we did....
The proprietor and owner was Frederick Parks,
grandfather of our coal man, F.P. Barber. He first lived on the Hatton farm and
then moved into town, bringing the enterprise with him. The factory made plug
tobacco out of Missouri leaf, now called 'long green.' It was pressed into
caddies or boxes and was guaranteed to keep its strength indefinitely. A man
named Butterfield was employed to do the work, and busted up the business. It
seems that some alcohol was required to give the proper taste and smell, and
the same was furnished with the tobacco. Butterfield was of a thirsty disposition
and drank the liquid instead of putting it into the tobacco, with the result
that the tobacco did not have the right taste or flavor and the chewers of the
community would not use it. The company went busted about 1855, and it took
three old ladies of this town until after the war to get it all used up. They
crumbled it up and smoked it.
It was not an important industry, but while
it lasted, we did not have to import our chewing tobacco. The more recent way
of making plug in Missouri is to bore holes in a green hickory log and drive in
the tobacco. When it is cured the log is split open and the plugs removed,
sweetened by the sap of the hickory. The plug is strong and economical."
The lazy lifestyle of Montrose is summed up:
"When the pine forests were uncut up north the snow did not melt til the
latter part of May and that made the high water down on this part of the river
and arrived here about June 1st. It was called the 'June rise'. There were
great quantities of lumber, timbers, wood and logs floating down the river.
Some of our citizens caught wood enough at this time to fire them for a whole
year.... Sometimes part of a lumber or log raft would go by in the ice and then
our lumberjacks would get out their lines and try to land it and they were paid
well for this kind of work. Half the people of the town would be down at the
river bank watching the men work for it was exciting."2
In 1861, the War between the states started.
It did not leave the Parks household untouched. In the official roster of the
Nineteenth Iowa Infantry Regiment, Company 'A' is the
following entry
(scroll to right in link): Parks,
Frederick. Age 26. Residence Summitville, nativity New York. Enlisted Aug. 17,
1862, as wagoner. Mustered Aug. 17, 1862. Died of disease March 10, 1865, Fort
Gaines, Ala." Frederick Jr was now dead. He had enlisted most likely in
response to Lincoln's call on 2 July 1862 for 3 year volunteers, one of over
24, 400 to go from Iowa. He had endured many trials along the way. He fought
valiantly in many campaigns before his death. He, on enlisting, like many young
men during those times, thought it an honor to go stomp the "rebs"
down south. They thought it would be a quick war with the outcome not in doubt
for a minute. The southern men thought likewise. They were all wrong. The civil
war lasted until 1865 and many many lives were lost.
Jerome Parks Picture Back of this picture
On the 4th of August 1870, when the census-taker again made his rounds, he found Frederick and Lucy Parks with Jerome living with them. Also a 6 year old girl named Isabell Jones (most likely a daughter of Lucy Parks Jones)3 and a 74 year old Englishman named Henry Parker provided companionship and farm labor to the household. Frederick Parks' estate value had in the past ten years declined to $1000.00. Jerome's estate value of $1100.00 may account for part of the decrease. Jerome, in less than three months, would marry Virginia McClung, a young lady of noble stock from Virginia who in her 16 years had seen her share of rough times.4 She was working not far off as a housekeeper in the M.D. Wright household. Wright owned much of the land in section 21 and some land in sections 20 and 30, as well (see below map). We don't yet know exactly how or when Jerome and Virginia met, but it seems like the courtship was not long. On the 26th of October of 1870, they were wed. Jerome Parks in 1870 agricultural census pt2
Jerome and Jennie (to be Nancy Goedeckr) - tintype photo from 1870-1875 - Was this taken in 1874 when Jennie was pregnant with Virgia? back - with Nancy Goedeckr (Virginia McClung) picture for scale
Finally some happiness in her life. In all their lives. It was not to last. On the 2nd day of February, 1875, Jerome D. Parks died, leaving his twenty year old wife with three children, one (Virgie) less than three months old! Frederick's only grandson came to live with he and Lucy and stayed until Lucy died about 1881. In the census taken on the 19th of June 1880, Lucy (who goes by the name Eliza at this time apparently) lives with her grandson Chester (age 7), her 15 year old granddaughter Isabell Jones, and her 84 year old English friend Henry Parker on Walnut street in Montrose. It is possible that both Lucy and Henry Parker live in block 17 of the following map due to Water street (along the Mississippi river) being covered by the census taker on the 18th day, and Walnut, then First street on the 19th. Lucy and Henry appear within the very first families on Walnut street. 1872 Map of Walnut street Montrose, Montrose township, Lee County, Iowa (Lower right is due North). From http://cdm.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/maps&CISOPTR=3916&REC=20&CISOSHOW=3912
1880 entry in agricultural census returns that may be for Jerome Parks, started and scratched out, perhaps as the census taker realized that Jerome had been murdered several years earlier and should no longer be counted?
She probably died not long after this census was taken. Frederick's
death date was uncertain, but it was surely close to the date of his son. An
inquiry into possible documentation of Lucy Parks' death date of 1881 was made
with the Iowa state Department of Health in June of 1967. They checked the
years from 1880-1883, with no luck. In an interesting footnote, Isabell Parks
Hiltbrunner, in her letter
part1
part2
part3
part4 to Jean Leighton seems to have the idea that
Frederick Parks was a doctor of some sort. While both he and his wife were
literate according to the census returns (seemingly pretty rare for this time
in our history) there is no indication whatsoever that he was anything but a
farmer and a one-time entrepreneur.
A page on Putnam county history
Some info on Fred in Putnam: copyright info pt2 pt3 pt4 pt5
Jerome listed in 1874 Lee county, Iowa landowners atlas (J. Parks) 1872 Montrose township, Lee County Plat Map - Jerome Parks immediately under "N" in Montrose in section 4 (brother in law Charles Brown reside in sections 7&8, and his future wife's employer M D Wright owned much of section 21 and some in section 20 and 30, as well) - a better view of Jerome's neighbors. It would appear that Jerome had approx 40 acres here possibly held for his parents (it shows in Lucy's probate papers below, but not Jerome's) in addition to some in Jefferson County according to his probate papers below.
Marilyn in Salem, OR - [email protected] - recently sent me the following:
Sophia was Henry's daughter and she was age 19
in 1850. I saw that census and it was hard to determine what it showed for her
age, but based
on what else I had, 19 fit right in.
In 1860 they still lived next door to Fred Parks and family. Sophia had married
Samuel Goble and so he was listed first. Henry was listed as
Gentleman, last on the list of the house hold. Sophie must have died sometime
after her 3rd child was born if not in child birth. Charles was b
Apr 1864. By 1870 Samuel Goble and second wife are in Des Moines Co. IA.
I've recently found out about a group of people from England who came in the
1840's to that area of IA. Seems they were poor and promised great riches.
I suspect that Henry and Sophia were a part of that group.
I had sent someone a request for a lookup on them and the Parks and this is the
response I got back from her:
Just for a point of information Frederick and Lucy Parks are buried in the
Montrose Cemetery, Montrose, Lee Co., Iowa-
Frederick Parks Feb 19, 1801, Feb 2, 1872
Lucy Parks, Sept 1, 1809, Sept 12, 1881
Listing of plat
(section 3, #5)
(one stone - R.N.A.-nothing else)
They are buried in the older section of the Montrose Cemetery. This older
section has some graves that are now believed to be covered by the back
waters of the Mississippi River. When the locks and dam were constructed in
1913 this backed up the waters of the Mississippi River covering some of
these old graves. Some graves were moved to what I now call the newer section
(even though there are many older stones) in this section. For
whatever reason not all graves were moved. Perhaps permission was needed before
moving graves and relatives could not be contacted. I really don't
have a good answer for that one. Unfortunately, this could be where Sophia
Parker is buried.
Now also of note I found Frederick Parks age 69 married 20 years to a Nancy age
60 in 1870
son Jerome D age 31 and Isabel Jones age 6 Henry Parker age 74
Don't know where the Nancy came from. I know that Nancy is a nickname in
Scotland for Agnes, but that doesn't seem to apply here.
I searched for years for Samuel and Sophia marriage and found it by accident a
few months ago. They had misspelled Samuel's name as Dobble. He was also
listed as Gobbel on the census. I've found several different spellings for that
name.
This biography of Charles Brown
references his wife Sarah, daughter of our Frederick and Lucy Parks - as well as
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Parks
Henry Parker (next door neighbor later on)
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Jerome Parks’ obituary * source
Probate papers available for Jerome and Lucy Parks!
Source of
this data
Probate papers for
Jerome D Parks received and scanned 27Jan02!!
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Three emails from
Marilyn in OR regarding info she had found on Parks family. Thanks again
Marilyn!!
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One last remembrance from a man in September (16th) 1909
1. Scrapbook article kept by Virginia Parks/Horn and passed down through Jean Leighton.
2. The series of articles mentioned above were included in the scrapbook of Virginia Parks/Horn, but no dates can be found. Most likely the early part of the twentieth century (@1925 or so) based on the age of other articles in the scrapbook.
3. Another issue of Early Days in Montrose by J.P. Kennedy, found in Virgie Parks/Horn's scrapbook.
4. 1870 federal census returns, relationship speculation based on a letter from Isabell Parks Hiltbrunner (niece of Virgie Parks/Horn) to Jean Leighton dated November 20, 1955.
5. The McClung's will be dealt with separately, but suffice it to say that they were numerous around Rockbridge and Greenbriar counties, Virginia since the Revolutionary war, which several participated in. The Church of Latter Day Saints International Genealogical Index (IGI), the 1870 Montrose census returns, Isabell Hiltbrunner's letter cited in ref. 2, and the oral traditions coming down from within the family (supported by the documentation) lead to my subjective definition of Virginia McClung stated here.
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