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Jefferson Davenport Parr

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Jefferson Davenport Parr

Birth
Jefferson County, Indiana, USA
Death
8 Feb 1926 (aged 78)
Grundy County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Morris, Grundy County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Parents: Andrew Jackson Parr and Rose Elleanor Curry
Siblings: Seven siblings, two died as infants.
Marriage to Mary Slagle: 10 November 1867 in Lucas County, Iowa (she died 1885) and they had 11 children but only 5 living sons. Mr. Parr's cause of death: acute bronchitis.

MORRIS DAILY HERALD 1926
J. J.* Parr died at the home of his son A. A. Parr in Erienna Township, at 4:15 o'clock Monday afternoon after an illness of several weeks. Funeral services will be held from the late home at 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and burial will be made in Sample cemetery.

Mr. Parr was born in Johnson County, Indiana on November 28th, 1847. In the year 1854 he moved to Iowa with his parents where he resided until 1868. From there he went to Kansas and in 1914 he came to Illinois to make his home with his son. He was married to Mary Sladgle* in Iowa in 1867.

He was the father of 11 children and is survived by five sons**: A. A. of Erienna township; John of Cunningham, Kansas; David of Douglas, Kansas; Santford* of Udall, Kansas; and J. R. also of Erienna township.

*Name should be listed as J. D. Parr
*Wife Mary's maiden name was Slagle
**Family research shows their names to be: Andrew A. Parr, John William Parr, David James Parr, Sanford Harry "Sam" Parr, and Jess Harris "Bud" Parr.


Parents: Andrew Jackson Parr and Rose Elleanor Curry
Siblings: Seven siblings, two died as infants.
Marriage to Mary Slagle: 10 November 1867 in Lucas County, Iowa (she died 1885) and they had 11 children but only 5 living sons. Mr. Parr's cause of death: acute bronchitis.

MORRIS DAILY HERALD 1926
J. J.* Parr died at the home of his son A. A. Parr in Erienna Township, at 4:15 o'clock Monday afternoon after an illness of several weeks. Funeral services will be held from the late home at 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and burial will be made in Sample cemetery.

Mr. Parr was born in Johnson County, Indiana on November 28th, 1847. In the year 1854 he moved to Iowa with his parents where he resided until 1868. From there he went to Kansas and in 1914 he came to Illinois to make his home with his son. He was married to Mary Sladgle* in Iowa in 1867.

He was the father of 11 children and is survived by five sons**: A. A. of Erienna township; John of Cunningham, Kansas; David of Douglas, Kansas; Santford* of Udall, Kansas; and J. R. also of Erienna township.

*Name should be listed as J. D. Parr
*Wife Mary's maiden name was Slagle
**Family research shows their names to be: Andrew A. Parr, John William Parr, David James Parr, Sanford Harry "Sam" Parr, and Jess Harris "Bud" Parr.




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