Parker Family Papers
The Parker Family Papers contains material relating to the history and genealogy of the Parker family of East Tennessee. Items include photographs, papers, and scrapbooks that document several family members over a range of years throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Included are four individual photographs, all undated. One is of an unidentified group of people near a river; one is a portrait of J. C. Parker; one is a portrait of Mary E. Burke Parker; and one is a portrait of J. C. Parker and his second wife, Martha. Also included is a wedding invitation from 1894 for Belle Parker to Dr. J. C. Newman in Helenwood, Tenn. A homemade photo album with photographs taken by Everett J. Parker contains a forward from the photographer describing the locations of the photos, many of which show where the Parker family lived in Helenwood as well as their tombstones. There is also a typed manuscript of the Parker family geneaology with handwritten edits and a book of autographs signed by friends of J. C. Parker.
Dates
- undated
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Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Abstract
The Parker Family Papers contains material relating to the history and genealogy of the Parker family of East Tennessee. Items include photographs, papers, and scrapbooks that document several family members over a range of years throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Biographical / Historical
The Parker family traveled from England to North America in the early 1700s. It is unknown when they moved to East Tennessee, but the items in this collection are from when they lived in the Helenwood, Scott County, Tenn., area.
James Crawford (J. C.) Parker was born in 1841 to Joel and Maria Hurt Parker. He married Mary Ellen Burke (1845-1885) and together they had nine children. He served as a lawyer and judge in Scott County. Following Mary's death, Parker remarried to Martha Parker. He died in 1906 and is buried in Scott County.
Belle Maria Parker was born to J. C. and Mary Parker in 1873. She married Dr. J. Cawood Newman (1867-1931) in 1894 and they had two children, James and Luther Newman. Belle died in 1954 and is buried in Campbell County, Tenn.
Arrangement
This collection is in one folder.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository