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ALFRED PARKER, Biography / Henry Co, OH **************************************************** History of Henry and Fulton Counties, Ohio. Lewis Cass Aldrich, ed. Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1888. PARKER, ALFRED, Liberty, Napoleon p.o.,
was born in Pembrook, Genesee county, N.Y., in 1820, and was
a son of ORRIN and ABIGAIL (HARRIS) PARKER. ORRIN was born in
Rutland, Vt., and his wife in Washington county, N.Y. They were
married and settled in Genesee county, N.Y. in 1833, and settled
in Napoleon, Henry county, O., in 1837, where ORRIN died. His
wife, ABIGAIL, died in Liberty. They had a family of four children:
JOSEPH H., ALFRED, THURSTON K., and ORRIN, jr. ALFRED was married
in April, 1840, to NANCY MANN, who died in January, 1842. His
second wife was CORLESTIA HERKIMER, who was born in Herkimer
county, in 1821, and married in November, 1842. They had two
children, only one of whom is now living, IMOGENE, who married
ALBERT FOLLET, and has had five children: CORA, CHARLES, RUSSELL,
ALTA, and LULA B. FOLLET. CORLESTA [sic] was a granddaughter
of General Herkimer, of Revolutionary fame, and was a daughter
of NICHOLAS and NANCY (CUPNELL) HERKIMER. NICHOLAS died in Canada,
and his wife settled in East Toledo, where she died. ALFRED
PARKER was drafted in 1862, furnished a substitute who served
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