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Albert and Maria Nancy E. B. (Eades) Parks
Note: To be honest, Albert is a hard one to crack. I'm NOT 100% sure of all the following info, but hopefully it will help us all put the pieces together.
Albert was born in 1817 in Kentucky or Tennessee and Maria in 1829 in Tennessee. Albert and Maria were married approximately in 1849-1850, as they are together with no children in Van Buren County on the 1850 census. He is listed as a tinker and silversmith. They are listed in the 1860 Conway County census.
To this union five known children were born: 1. Jacob H, born in 1852 in Arkansas 2. John E, born 1853 in Arkansas 3. Albert Daniel Lafayette, born 1856 in Arkansas 4. Susan E, born 1858 in Arkansas 5. Laura Jane, born in 1860 in Arkansas
It appears that Maria died between 1860 and 1865 (she was in the 1860 census and Albert remarried in 1865).
My ancestor, Laura Jane Parks, told family she was going in Dover, Pope County, Arkansas March 30, 1861. I found this marriage license for Albert Parks and Margaret Stuckey on October 10, 1865 in Pope County, Arkansas. I'm also told by another researcher that Albert married Mary P. Martin on January 25, 1866 (where was this???). Mary was born in Tennessee in 1843 and died in Dike, Texas on September 10, 1907.
Legend holds a couple stories of what happen to Albert. First that Albert was running from the law and didn't want to be found. Secondary, lore says that Albert "removed from Missouri to Arkansas and was killed in an ambush during the reconstruction period after the Civil War," although I have no record of him in Missouri.
References:
Census records
Centennial History of Arkansas
Pope County Records
Inez Hixson Hawkins Interview
1840 Census
Tennessee:
Maria would be 11
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Eads, Gabrial |
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Hardin |
1850 Census
Arkansas :
Red River Township, Van Buren County
| Number |
Family |
Name |
Age |
Sex |
Occupation |
Birthplace |
| 241 |
241 |
Eadis, Jacob
Parks, Albert
Parks, Maria
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22
33
21
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F
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Farmer
Tinker |
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1860 Census
Arkansas :
Griffin/Old Hickery Township, Conway County
| Page |
Name |
Age |
Sex |
Occupation |
Birthplace |
| 516/241 |
Parks, Albert A.
Parks, Maria E. B.
Parks, Jacob H.
Parks, John E.
Parks, Albert D. L.
Parks, Susan E.
Parks, Laura J. |
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30
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2
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Silversmith |
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By 1870 it appears that Albert and Maria are both dead. The children are spread out in various places. Jacob appears to be single and living with a clergyman S.R. Etheridge in Griggs Township in Van Buren County. John E. appears to be married to Mary "Francis" Hammett, also living in Griggs Township of Van Buren County. Albert is living in Pulaski County with Harris Rowen. Susan is living with Simon Liakin in Morland, Pope County, Arkansas. Janie??? don't know where she is.
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