Parker
The information below comes from Clara Alice Parker [my great grandmother]
I
Our first known Parker ancestor was David Parker who came from Devon,
England on the ship, The Good Fortune [this has not been verified]. He
landed in Massachusetts around 1691.
He drifted down through New Jersey and Delaware, some of the descendant's
moved to Penn's Colony, and Parker ended up in Pennsylvania.
It is said some of the descendants were in a colony that settled in
Sherman's Valley (west of Harrisburg) before the land was purchased from
the Indians. On complaint of the Indians, the Penns burned the settlement
and forced the settlers back across the Susquehanna. One was David and
I don't remember the names of the others and don't know which was our ancestor.
One married an Indian woman.
II
David Parker, my great-great-grandfather, was born in Lehigh County,
PA about 1770 [I have 1768]. He married Clara Gynne in Maryland in 1795
and they had three children. Clara died in 1798 David then married Mary
Ann Love, a Scotch girl who was living with her uncle in Baltimore. They
had 10 children.
He is said to have taken a contract to build a toll road from Hagerstown,
MD northeast and he failed in business. He then came to Pennsylvania and
followed various occupations until he died in 1837. He is buried in the
old Hartslog Cemetery in Alexandria, PA.
Mary Ann died about 1860 and is buried at the White Presbyterian Church
out by McAlvey's Fort, PA.
III
My grandfather, Robert Stewart Parker was born in Barree PA in 1813.
His occupation was farming and lumber. In 1835 he married Mary Catherine
Robley at Spruce Creek. They had nine children:
Elliot 1838-3 Apr 1862 (died in Winchester VA)
William 1840 - 26 Feb 1897
Angeline 1842 - 19 Jan 1913
Albert 1845 - 2 Mar 1917
Hiram 1848 - 26 May 1910
Mary 1851 - 27 Jan 1916
Oliver 1853 - 28 Apr 1925
David 1856 - 27 Feb 1937
Laura 1860 - 26 Jun 1918
IV
My father, David Etnier Parker, was born in the Long Hollow. Mifflin
Co, PA. On May 20, 1880 he married Alice Sarah Miller at the home of her
father, George Miller, near Mapleton. They had two children - Clara Alice
Jones 28 Feb 1881 in Altoona, PA
Dora Luella 9 Sep 1882.
David was a building contractor with a planing mill at Juniata and
after retirement was President of the First National Bank of Juniata. In
1924 he moved to Alexandria where he died in 1937. Alice Sarah died in
1937 and they are buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery, Alexandria, PA.
730
BOROUGH LOSES PIONEER RESIDENT
Mr. and Mrs. D.E. Parker to Remove to Huntingdon County
Ending a sojourn of over a third of a century in Juniata, Mr.
and Mrs. D.E. Parker propose to remove their household to Alexandria, in
Huntingdon County and their residence at 703 Sixth avenue, has been leased
to Dr. William R. Brewer, of Tyrone, who will locate here to practice medicine.
Just when the removal will occur is not definite, but Mr. Parker is contemplating
the purchase of a home in Alexandria and the change will likely occur before
October 15-the date that Mr. Brewer takes possession of the commodious
dwelling in which the well-known Juniatian has resided during the past
eighteen years.
Mr. Parker has had a personal part in every step of Juniata's development
since his removal here from Altoona on August 12, 1890 with his wife and
two little daughters, occupying a home that he had built on Third Avenue
near Ninth street in the thinly settled village. His interest in the hamlet
about which the name Bellview still lingered began, however, two years
earlier, in 1888, when he became a member of the firm of Kline, Parker
and company, that erected and operated a planing mill that was for three
years located near the present site of WU office in the P.R.R. classification
yard.
Family Note: This was Mam-Mam and Pap-Pap
V
Clara Alice Parker married Charles Allen Jones at Derry, PA by the
Honorable H. Gage Moody. They had three children: Alice Louise born 12
June 1903; Helen Mildred born July 1906-died August 1906; Robert Allen
21 Jan 1909 at Juniata, PA.