Parker, William Clark (1823-1867)

PARKER, TOZER, NEAL, SHUMAN

Posted By: Carla Hillgren (email)
Date: 2/23/2019 at 18:30:24

Son of Frederick and Elizabeth (Tozer) Parker, William Clark Parker was born May 13, 1800 in New York. He moved west to Lawrence County, Ohio, where he met and married Isabella Neal in 1824. Their first three children, John, Sarah, and Lydia, were born there. They moved to Huntington County, Indiana about 1837, where the remainder of their children, being William, Abigail, Henry, Richard, Julia, and Benjamin, were born.
William was a farmer, but also taught school in Huntington County from 1839 until the late 1840s, and served as an Associate Justice of the County Courty from 1841 to 1848. Isabella Parker died on February 28, 1853 and was buried in [Mount Etna Cemetery] Huntington County. Later that same year, William met and married Jane Shuman. They had a daughter, Clarissa, in Huntington County about a year later, and later moved to Decatur County, Iowa.
William died on June 22, 1867. He was laid to rest at Elk Cemetery, Decatur County, Iowa.
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2013