{"id":1145,"date":"2023-01-07T22:11:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T22:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/?page_id=1145"},"modified":"2023-01-07T22:12:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T22:12:05","slug":"ralph-r-parker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/index.php\/ralph-r-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph R. Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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On March 24, 1802, Ralph R. Parker was born. He married Sarah C. Hodge on July 4, 1834. They came from\u00a0Lumberton,\u00a0North Carolina\u00a0to\u00a0Texas\u00a0where he died December 8, 1961. Ralph R. was the son of Rev. Francis Parker, who was one of the early circuit riders of the\u00a0Methodist\u00a0Church. Ralph R. Parker, his wife and children, came to\u00a0Houston County,\u00a0Texas\u00a0in the late 1850s, after they received a letter from their father, who had been in\u00a0Houston\u00a0County\u00a0for awhile. In Frank’s letter he painted a lovely and highly desirable picture of the part of\u00a0Texas\u00a0where he lived. In fact, his letter motivated and enticed his father into selling his tree farm and turpentine business in\u00a0North Carolina. It was a long journey by way of two covered wagons to\u00a0Texas. The Parkers encountered many hardships on this journey. Heavy rains caused swollen streams that hampered travel. After several months, the Parkers found themselves in\u00a0Vicksburg,\u00a0Mississippi\u00a0with worn out teams. The teams for the wagons were sold and traded for two slaves. Ralph and Sara, their children and the slaves took passage on a boat to\u00a0Galveston\u00a0and then up the\u00a0Trinity River\u00a0to White Rock Shoals where Francis met them. They went to Oak Grove Community, then known as “Woodland Hall”. Here in this new and strange land, the Ralph Parker family pitched their tent for weal or for woe. Each son purchased and homesteaded land in\u00a0Houston\u00a0County. TheParker\u00a0Cemetery\u00a0in Oak Grove Community is five acres of land located just east of the original homestead of R.R. Parker. Ralph and Sarah C. designated this land before he died for a cemetery when his son William W. was killed when a tree fell on him. Ralph was one of the first to be buried in the cemetery. Two sons, Frances H. and John Nelson went to serve in the Confederate Army. This left twins, Ralph Delaney and William W. to help their mother, Sarah C., with all the small children and their sister, Ann Baxley and her children, as her husband had also gone to war. On May 20, 1894, Sarah Parker and her family and close friends celebrated her 77th birthday. Every year since that time, Parker descendants and other people who have relatives buried at\u00a0Parker\u00a0Cemetery\u00a0have continued to celebrate Sarah Parker’s birthday. There has been a change made in the date of the celebration or reunion. It is now held on the third Sunday of May and is known as “Parker Memorial”. Ralph and Sarah Parker had ten boys and four girls. The sons are Rev. Frank (F.H.) Parker, John Nelson Parker, Simeon Theodore Parker, Ralph Delaney Parker, William W. Parker, David M. Parker, D.H. Parker, Simon Willis Parker, Simon Edward and Webb Parker.<\/p>

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Ralph R. Parker Family History On March 24, 1802, Ralph R. Parker was born. He married Sarah C. Hodge on July 4, 1834. They came from\u00a0Lumberton,\u00a0North Carolina\u00a0to\u00a0Texas\u00a0where he died December 8, 1961. Ralph R. was the son of Rev. Francis Parker, who was one of the early circuit riders of the\u00a0Methodist\u00a0Church. Ralph R. Parker, his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1145","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1145\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grapeland.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}