J. E. PARRISH

PARRISH

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/21/2020 at 17:01:44

J. E. PARRISH, a farmer and stock-raiser on section 5, Carl township, was 9 born in Putnam county, Indiana, June 7, 1848, the son of Edward Parrish, deceased, one of the well known early settlers of the county. The father, born in North Carolina, was eight or nine years old when he was taken to Indiana by his parents in their removal to that State. In 1840 he married Cyrilda McCall, a Kentuckian, a native ot Kentucky and a daughter of John McCall, also a Kentuckian, and afterward came to Carl township, Adams county, settling on section 5, wild land. lie reared five children, namely: Susan Ann, of St. Joseph, Missouri; Mary Jane, of Greencastle, Indiana;
Sarah Elizabeth, of Buchanan county, Missouri; J. E., the subject of this sketch; Thomas O., of Nuckolls county, Nebraska. He died in January, 1888, at the age of sixty-five years; was a farmer all his life, and in politics a Democrat. His wife had died when J. E. was a youth.

Mr. Parrish, whose name heads this sketch, was fourteen years of age when he came to
this county. He is now the owner of 453 acres of rich bottom land, well improved. On these premises are a good house, 24 x 28 feet, the usual ornamental trees, barns and all the farm appliances and improvements, in good order. He has some high grade cattle and some good horses. Politically he is a Democrat, but has never desired office. He is jovial and liberal.

He was married at Quincy, Iowa, October 6, 1870, to Henrietta Hulbert, a native of Indiana, and they have three children, viz.: Cora Belle, now the wife of Orval Griffin, of Carl township; Nora Dell and Edward.

He was married April 7, 1859, in Ogle county, Illinois, to Miss Indiana Eakle, a highly cultured lady and a successful teacher, born in Maryland, daughter of Joseph Eakle, a native of Virginia, but reared in Maryland. He was a musician in the army during the war of 1812.He married Catharine Kaufman, who was born in Frederick City, Maryland, and came to Illinois in 1845, where his wife died, in 1871, at the age of sixty-five years; he died in 1881, aged about eighty-two years. They had three and seven daughters. Mr. Eakle was a Democrat in politics, and in religion a Lutheran.