George Parks/Parkes was born in Amherst County, Virginia to Son of John Parks 1706 VA - 1793 Wilkes, NC. & Mary Sharp (daughter of Elias Sharp and Margaret Proctor) and passed in Elletsville, Monroe County, Indiana.

When a boy of five or six, his family removed to Rowan County, which was later Wilkes County, North Carolina on the Yadkin River.

He was united in marriage to Millicent Davis/Davison (1743-1793) in Jan. 1779; of which union produced eight children. They were: Elizabeth Parks, James Parks [former member of Indiana Militia & Indiana Legislature], Samuel Parks, Polly Parks, Benjamin Parks [a clergyman in Monroe County, Indiana], Pleasant Parks [former member of Indiana Legislature], Nancy Parks and Milly Parks.

He was then united in marriage to Catherine Reed (1779-1863 Dallas, TX) on July 6, 1796, Surry County, North Carolina; to which union bore six children. They were: Hannah (Parks) Puett, Meredith [son] Parks, Alfred Parks, Curtis Parks, Sarah Parks, Rebecca Parks and Carlton Parks.

George and brother, Samuel, enlisted in summer of 1776 and served 3 months as first sergeant in Capt. William Lenoir's Company, Col Isaacs' North Carolina Regiment. He enlisted again in the Spring 1777 and served 3 months as private in Capt Samuel Johnston's Company, Col Benjamin Cleveland's North Carolina Regt. Again, he enlisted in Fall of 1779 and served eighteen months as private in Capt William Lenoir's Company, Col Benjamin Cleveland's North Carolina Regt and Capt Richard Allen's Company, Col Locke's North Carolina Regt and was in several skirmishes with Tories.

In an affidavit for George, Samuel stated that as part of one of his tours, "We marched to King's Mountain, but did not arrive at the place, the battle being over before we reached." He later served two years in the Wilkes County militia and spent some time in the Burke County militia.

George and family arrived in Ellettsville, Monroe County, Indiana in October of 1815. It is stated that he brought the first grist mill to Monroe county.

Sources:
NARA Revolution War Pension Records and others
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Part of this information was provided by Joel Parks;
Names of parents added by FAG member - 47278294 on 3/1/2016
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Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Telephone, June 23, 1883, p. 1.

Ellettsville CITIZEN: Want of space last week prevented us from saying that the grave of George Parks, a Revolutionary soldier, was decorated for the first time, it having been overlooked on previous occasions. Mr. Parks, who was the father of Mrs. T. J. Sharp and the late James Parks, was born in 1760. He built the first house erected in Ellettsville on the lot on which Mrs. Amanda Sharp's residence now stands. Twenty years ago his remains were exhumed from the street in front of Samuel Galloway's residence and deposited in the cemetery.

J. W. Rey kindly furnishes us the following which gives the number of the soldiers who served in the wars named, and the places where they are buried. C. P. Cemetery: 1776, 1; 1812, 1; 1846, 1; 1861, 16. M. E. Cemetery: 1812, 2; 1861, 5. Reeves Cemetery: 1861, 1. Everman Cemetery, 1861, 1. Maple Grove Cemetery: 1846, 8; 1861, 7. Huston Cemetery: 1861, 3. Woodall Cemetery: 1812, 8.
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The following info was added by FAG member - 47010546 on 2-19-2011 - Thanks!

a little more information about their move to Indiana...

After the War of 1812, new territories began to open and the Parks family began to think of relocation. They heard of the promise of acquiring new lands just for the settling in Indiana and they, along with many other family members and friends, made the long journey from North Carolina to Indiana. They arrived in October 1815. The group made camp that day on the east bank of the White River in, what is now known as, Lawrence County. They sang hymns and offered a prayer of thanksgiving. The next morning, the men of each family chose their lands and readied them for survey. They lived on those lands, improved them, planted and harvested. The next fall, the men prepared to go to Jefferson-ville for the land sale. But a man named Bullit had more money and he outbid the colonists and was able to acquire the whole settlement! It is said that, after hearing what Bullit had done, George Parks told his wife, "Well, I guess his Pole was longer than ours". A whole year's work was for nothing. Blue days followed, but the group pulled together, moved on further north and began again. They settled in Monroe County, picked new lands, cleared them, built new cabins, working the lands, and at the next land sale held at Vincennes, were successful in ac-quiring titles to their farms.

The family is fortunate to have several handwritten accounts of their time in both North Carolina and Indiana. George's brother Samuel wrote a lot of in-formation for George's Pension application; so the family's history is well documented. One of George's older sons, James, lived to an advanced age and wrote a pioneers article for their local newspaper giving wonderful historical facts.

George and Catherine lived near Elletsville and farmed and raised their children until 1837, when George died. He is buried in Elletsville, Indiana, in the churchyard of the Richland Baptist Church, and the Daughters of the American Revolution has marked his grave. George was 78 when he died.
[Source: http://www.dallaspioneer.org/stories/pioneers.php?ID=327]