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• Greene County
• Places of our PARKERS
• Parker Cemetery, Kane, Greene Co, ILLINOIS
• PARKERs Timeline
• After 1830 August RACE and Elizabeth Ann PARKER RACE [John, Benjamin, Job] moved their family to Greene County,
ILLINOIS. [• NEEDS VERIFICATION]
• 1837: “the Virginian [Jacob W. PARKER [Benjamin, Job]] directed his footsteps during the Autumn of 1837; from Wheeling,
Va., he embarked with his family on board a steamboat, and floated down the Ohio to its confluence with the Mississippi River,
from the city of St. Louis his course lay up the Illinois River, and eventually he made his way to Greene County” Book: History
of Greene County, Illinois [S399], 1879, Clement L. CLAPP
• Documents and Literature
• BOOK: History of Greene County, Illinois: its past and present, containing a history of the county ; its cities, towns, etc...
[S399]
1879
Clement L. CLAPP, b.1852
Donnelley, Gassette & Loyd; Chicago
Biographies at MORGAN AREA GENEALOGY GREENE COUNTY IL
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page 312
Old Settlers' Meeting
21 October 1871
"The object of the meeting will be to organize an Old Settlers' Association for Greene County… The meeting in 1874 was one
of the most interesting in the history of the association. The gathering was the largest of the kind ever held in the county.
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- Seventy and over… Wm. Parker…
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The following list of those who came to this county very early is not offered as being complete or nearly so. Neither do the
dates profess absolute accuracy. They are simply some of the names I have come across with the dates I have found
attached to them.
List of Early Settlers in Greene County.
Parker, Jesse, 1826
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Parker, H. L., 1836
Parker, Wm. P., 1835
Parker, Thos. L, 1837
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The names of Alfred Harvey, for the past eight years Superintendent of Schools at Paris, Edgar Co., Ill., and President for the
ensuing year of the Illinois State Teachers' Association; of Francis W. Parker, now Superintendent of Schools at Quincy,
Mass., and of many others, dear to the memory of those who profited by their instruction...
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White Hall
White Hall, one of the most flourishing towns in Southern Illinois,
page 403
The town contains the following voluntary organizations for mutual benefit, other than religious bodies.
Benevolent Lodge, No. 227, 1. 0. 0. F., was organized in October,
1859, with the following charter members, John W. Adgate, Peter Parker, Daniel C. Banta, Thomas Lakin and Joseph C.
Coch. The officers
were Peter Parker...
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KANE.
There have been in the history of the county two places about a mile apart, having the name of Kane. One of these. Old Kane
(or Homer as it was formerly called) is situated in Township 9, Range 12, and the other, New Kane, is in Township 9, Range
11. As a preliminary to a sketch of New Kane which is at present the center of trade and activity, some notice of the old town
should be given.
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W. P. Parker is the only merchant doing an exclusive grocery business, although J. B. & S. F." Gardiner and Wm. B. Enslow
carry a stock of such goods.
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Evergreen Lodge, No. 1,344, Knights of Honor, was organized Jan-
uary 25, 1879, with the following officers : Joseph S. Carr, D.; Donald
Carmichael, V. D.; C. E. Neeley, A. D.; Dr. L S. Hughes, P. D.; A. W.
Felter, R.; C. M. Carr, F. R.; W. B. Parker...
page 680
HUTCHINSON J. W. banker, Greenfield, is a native of Pike County, born Sept. 14, 1841 ; son of Samuel and Laura B.
Hutchinson, whose maiden name was Batcheller, who are esteemed people, and came to this State about the year 1835…
We next find him at Naples, engaged as a clerk for Wallace Parker...
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KING LUCIAN CAPT, who takes a leading position among the agriculturists of Greene County, is a native of the State of New
York ; born in the year 1817 ; the seventh of a family of nine children… he now wended his way to Southern Illinois, locating in
Greene County, where he first secured employment as a farm hand ; his total possessions then footing up to the sum of thirty-
five dollars ; during this time he united his fortunes to Miss Almira Lemon, a daughter of Elder Muses Lemon, a pioneer
minister of Greene County. James Lemon, who was the father of the Rev. gentleman above mentioned, was one of the first
few white settlers in the State, having settled in Monroe County prior to 1800, a period of time when the North American
Indians were as leaves of the forest ; when old Fort Dearborn marked the site of the present flourishing city of Chicago, and
the
entire commerce of the then trading point of St. Louis reached the hopeful sum of some $20,000... Of the marriage above
referred to, seven children were born, of whom five are living: Hattie E., who married J. J. Armstrong, and
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on his death married Henry L. Parker, of Kane ; Matie L., who married T. Jones, resident of Tp. g, R. II ; Martha E., who
married Charles E. Neeley, station agent of Kane ; Adele and Sadie B., who reside on the farm homestead ; this property
consists of 260 acres of land brought to a high state of cultivation.
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PARKER H. L. farmer, Kane
Parker W. B. & Co. grocers, Kane
PARKER W. B. dealer in groceries, queensware, glassware, woodenware, etc. William B. Parker, from whom this sketch is
obtained, is the leading grocer of Kane. As related elswhere [sic], this place was platted and founded as a town in 1865. Mr.
Parker has transacted business only for the short space of two years, but during this time has built up, through his business
tact and honorable dealing, a successful trade. Mr. Parker is the only son of William P. Parker, deceased, a native of West
Virginia, where he was born March 31, 1799. On his removal to Pennsylvania, having arrived at mature years, he was
married to Miss Maria Backman ; in 1848 he purchased property in Greene County, where some years later he settled upon a
farm some four miles northwest of Kane, where he has since followed farming, and has also been extensively engaged as a
stock raiser, ranking among the more prosperous farmers of Greene County. He is the owner of 473 acres of land that will
compare favorably with any in the west. The subject of this sketch was born in Greene County in 1850, but passed his early
years in Pennsylvania; in 1860, becoming a resident of Greene, where he received a liberal education ; while the war was in
progress he devoted his time to farming, his first business venture being made at Kane. Mr. Parker is married, having united
his fortunes to Miss Fannie Tolman
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Kane Business Cards
PARKER & CO., dealers in groceries, queensware, glassware, notions, tobacco and fancy confectionery, Kane
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TOWN 9, NORTH RANGE 12, WEST.
PARKER THOMAS S. farmer and stock raiser. Sec. 14, P. O. Kane. Thomas S. Parker one of those whole souled gentleman,
with whom it is a pleasure to meet, was born in Hampshire County, West Virginia, on the 28th of February, 1837; his father
Jacob W. Parker was also a Virginian, a weaver by trade, he is described as a man extremely fond of traversing the forest in
search of game; it is quite probable that he heard many glowing accounts of the West. Illinois was
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then settling up quite rapidly and thither the Virginian directed his footsteps during the Autumn of 1837; from Wheeling, Va., he
embarked with his family on board a steamboat, and floated down the Ohio to its confluence with the Mississippi River, from
the city of St. Louis his course lay up the Illinois River, and eventually he made his way to Greene County; he now found
himself the possessor of some $5 in money, and realized that he had a large family of children that were to be clothed and
provided for with the necessaries of life; he now set to work with a will and became moderately successful in life; living at a
time when land rose rapidly in value he never attained that wealth that fell to the lot of many who studied the financial question
more closely; he died at an advanced age, and his ashes repose in the cemetery situated in township 9, range 12. Mrs.
Parker departed this life many years prior to her husband. Henry L. Parker, a prominent farmer of Greene County, and
Thomas, from whom this sketch is obtained, are the only survivors of the family; as we have seen Thomas was quite young
when his parents moved to Greene County, and here the youth grew to manhood, obtaining a liberal education in districts
schools, he applied himself in subsequent years to the manifold duties appertaining to the farm; at the present writing he is the
owner of 385 acres of valuable land in this township; March, 1878, he was united in marriage to Miss Lydia Gilliland, a
daughter of Robert Gilliland, one of the older residents of the county.
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