In his youth, Rev. Frank Parkins learned the trade of blacksmith and wagon maker and established a shop of his own in his native Gallia Co., Ohio community. He found time for religious work as he and three brothers: Theodore, Charles and Lincoln organized the Parkins Brothers' Quartet. They gave concerts to large audiences in all surrounding communities. He was united in marriage with Miss Mary "Anise" Pease on Christmas Day, 1879. To this union would be born eight children, three daughters and five sons but only three sons and one daughter survived their father. For several years he felt a growing conviction that he must give all his time to religious work. In 1893 at the age of 36 he applied for admission into the Ohio Methodist Conference. He was already beyond the age fixed by the Conference for new entrants. He was offered a supply appointment. So faithfully and successfully did he fulfill his arduous task that in 1906 the Conference did a very unusual thing in voting to receive him not "on trial" but immediately into "full connection" into The Ohio Methodist Conference. Following his pastoral message he would move to the church organ where he would play and sing a hymn, a theme of his pulpit message. The practice became a SIGNATURE of his ministry. Rev. Parkins retired in 1925 at the age of 68. Until the last year of his life his clear tenor voice led the singing at his home church, The Glenwood Methodist Church in Columbus Ohio.
In his youth, Rev. Frank Parkins learned the trade of blacksmith and wagon maker and established a shop of his own in his native Gallia Co., Ohio community. He found time for religious work as he and three brothers: Theodore, Charles and Lincoln organized the Parkins Brothers' Quartet. They gave concerts to large audiences in all surrounding communities. He was united in marriage with Miss Mary "Anise" Pease on Christmas Day, 1879. To this union would be born eight children, three daughters and five sons but only three sons and one daughter survived their father. For several years he felt a growing conviction that he must give all his time to religious work. In 1893 at the age of 36 he applied for admission into the Ohio Methodist Conference. He was already beyond the age fixed by the Conference for new entrants. He was offered a supply appointment. So faithfully and successfully did he fulfill his arduous task that in 1906 the Conference did a very unusual thing in voting to receive him not "on trial" but immediately into "full connection" into The Ohio Methodist Conference. Following his pastoral message he would move to the church organ where he would play and sing a hymn, a theme of his pulpit message. The practice became a SIGNATURE of his ministry. Rev. Parkins retired in 1925 at the age of 68. Until the last year of his life his clear tenor voice led the singing at his home church, The Glenwood Methodist Church in Columbus Ohio.
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