Oklahoma Genealogical Society
Parks
Family Records
Taken
from Oklahoma Genealogical Society Quarterly Vol. 9, No. 3, September
1964
Transcribed
to Electronic form by Jo White
Certified Certificate of Marriage
North Carolina, Randolph County
I, Anna Shaw. . .Registrar of Deeds and Custodian
of the Marriage Record for County of
Randolph, State of North Carolina, hereby certify that Henry Parks. . .yrs age
of, and Susanna Stout. . .yrs age of. . .secured Marriage Bond and were legally
Married by Washington Parkes (sic) on the 15 day of September 1835 in the
presence of John B. Troy. Washington
Parks was a Bro to Henry Parks, Witnesses, and License has been returned and is
now a part of the record of said County.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and
affix my official seal this 18th day of February 1959
Annie
Shaw
Official Seal by
Maxine Brookshire, Deputy
Register
of Deeds
Randolph
Co., North Carolina
Soon after this couple was married they moved to
Weakley County, Tennessee where all of their children were born and
raised. Three sons were in the Civil
War, and on their return home they came back to Weakley County, Tenn., married
and raised their families in Weakley Co., Tenn.; also died in Weakley Co., Tenn.
Children of the above couple were:
1. George
Washington Parks, B. Oct 22, 1836, Weakley Co., Tenn., D. 30 Dec. 1914, M.
Susan Pope, B. Oct. 31, 1849. Parents
of Susan Pope were Jorden Pope and wife, Jane Payne.
2. Wm.
or William Gaston, B. 22 March 1838, Weakley Co., Tenn., D. 19 Jan. 1866,
unmarried.
3. Ephraim
H., B. July 26, 1840, Weakley Co., Tenn., D. 7 Aug. 1918, M. Emily Alice Finch,
B. 1851, D. 1916. Ephraim H. Parks M.
February 2, 1871.
4. Mary
Elizabeth Parks, B. Aug. 6, 1841, Weakley Co., Tenn., D. October 14, 1886, M.
W.H. Henry Lynn, B. Jan. 19, 1837, D. Jan. 16, 1871.
5. Thomas
Parks, B. 1845 (? Transcriber) Weakley Co., Tenn., M. Mary Pope B. 1853,
(?Transcriber) D. 1930. Thomas Parks D.
1928.
6. Henry
Samuel (H.S.) Parks, B. Jan. 5, 1882, D. Nov. 1, 1929 in Parker County, Texas,
M. Lurinda Frances Edwards, B. Dec. 13, 1885 at Helena, Phillips Co., Arkansas,
D. July 16, 1942 at Springtown, Parker Co., Texas. This couple was married in Weakley Co., Tenn., moving to Texas in
the year of 1891. All of their children
were born in Weakley Co., except us three younger children, who were born in
Parker Co., Texas. My mother and father
were buried at Veal Station Cemetery, near Springtown, Texas. This record is correct and can be sworn to.
Signed:
Vada (Parks) Dean (Mrs. Roy Dean) Woodward,
Oklahoma
*(This record has been slightly rearranged by the
Editor to conserve space, but no content has been changed.)
Mrs. Roy Dean, OGS Member contributed these
records.
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