Lacking education and culture, opposed to progress and improvements, frugal to the point of denying themselves often times the actual necessities of life, were the Parkers. Humphrey Parker, the first member of the family about whom there is any record, had two sons and two daughters. Nicholas went to Tennessee, Sam lived in the hollow west of the last railroad depot; his maiden sisters, Nancy and Hettie, in a small house farther west. Sam was born in 1807, his wife Martha in 1811. They reared two sons, Andrew (died in Confederate Army) and Sam Jr, and five daughters, Nancy, Hetty, Polly, Sallie and Rachel, none of whom married. None of them departed from the ways of their forefathers, wearing homemade clothing and shoes, split bonnets and aprons, using primitive methods of cooking, and never allowing any innovation to enter their lives or home. Rachel would have welcomed and enjoyed some of the comforts of life and the association with some friends. She did get glasses when her eyesight became poor, and she and her brother had one ride on the train to Charlotte. Their home consisted of two one-room houses about thirty feet apart. It was surrounded by a large pasture enclosed by a split-rail fence. The Sam Parker Family Burying Ground is near the northwest section of the Kings Mountain Country Club Golf course. In the summer of 1970, all grave stones for his family and his two maiden sisters were legible, but most of them were sunken or broken.
--From "History and Program Commemorating the Centennial of Kings Mountain" 1874-1974 [1974]; courtesy of BK (50785652) 9-13-22 with birth/death place and link to father.
--From "History and Program Commemorating the Centennial of Kings Mountain" 1874-1974 [1974]; courtesy of BK (50785652) 9-13-22 with birth/death place and link to father.
Lacking education and culture, opposed to progress and improvements, frugal to the point of denying themselves often times the actual necessities of life, were the Parkers. Humphrey Parker, the first member of the family about whom there is any record, had two sons and two daughters. Nicholas went to Tennessee, Sam lived in the hollow west of the last railroad depot; his maiden sisters, Nancy and Hettie, in a small house farther west. Sam was born in 1807, his wife Martha in 1811. They reared two sons, Andrew (died in Confederate Army) and Sam Jr, and five daughters, Nancy, Hetty, Polly, Sallie and Rachel, none of whom married. None of them departed from the ways of their forefathers, wearing homemade clothing and shoes, split bonnets and aprons, using primitive methods of cooking, and never allowing any innovation to enter their lives or home. Rachel would have welcomed and enjoyed some of the comforts of life and the association with some friends. She did get glasses when her eyesight became poor, and she and her brother had one ride on the train to Charlotte. Their home consisted of two one-room houses about thirty feet apart. It was surrounded by a large pasture enclosed by a split-rail fence. The Sam Parker Family Burying Ground is near the northwest section of the Kings Mountain Country Club Golf course. In the summer of 1970, all grave stones for his family and his two maiden sisters were legible, but most of them were sunken or broken.
--From "History and Program Commemorating the Centennial of Kings Mountain" 1874-1974 [1974]; courtesy of BK (50785652) 9-13-22 with birth/death place and link to father.
--From "History and Program Commemorating the Centennial of Kings Mountain" 1874-1974 [1974]; courtesy of BK (50785652) 9-13-22 with birth/death place and link to father.
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