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Rev John Parker

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Rev John Parker

Birth
North Carolina, USA
Death
1864 (aged 79–80)
Parkers Crossroads, Henderson County, Tennessee, USA
Burial
Parkers Crossroads, Henderson County, Tennessee, USA
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Parkers Crossroads named after him.Dr. Parker had been a Unionist at the start of the Civil War, but, after Dunham's Union commander refusal to move a cannon that had been placed in his yard, Dr. Parker switched his allegiance to the Confederacy. His death-bed wish was "to be buried with my feet to the north - my head to the south, so that when the angel Gabriel sounded his trumpet, I can rise and kick the Yankees back North!"

Note - Bill Cheatham's great-great-great-grandfather.
Parkers Crossroads named after him.Dr. Parker had been a Unionist at the start of the Civil War, but, after Dunham's Union commander refusal to move a cannon that had been placed in his yard, Dr. Parker switched his allegiance to the Confederacy. His death-bed wish was "to be buried with my feet to the north - my head to the south, so that when the angel Gabriel sounded his trumpet, I can rise and kick the Yankees back North!"

Note - Bill Cheatham's great-great-great-grandfather.

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