Henry Wistar Parker, Col. (1918)

PARKER, WILKINSON, JOECKEL

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 2/21/2008 at 16:51:56

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
November 6, 1918

COL. H. W. PARKER

Col. H. W. Parker was killed in action Sept. 27th was the contents of a telegram received here on Saturday from Mrs. Parker, second daughter of Judge and Mrs. A. W. Wilkinson. Mrs. Parker and daughter, Miss Beatrice Joeckel, are in New York at present.

Col. Parker, known to many here, was the son of a West Point man, and early decided to enter the army. At nineteen, he became a U.S. Regular, rising from private to colonel during his twenty seven years in the service. He was stationed in the Phillipines for several years prior to the Mexican border trouble; then was sent to this country in December, 1916, and was immediately sent to the border with the Sixth Cavalry.

When the present war broke out like many cavalryman, bitter disappintment awaited a lifetime of army service, as no cavalry was sent overseas, but the past year drew them into the war and Colonel Parker finally had his fondest wish gratified to help in the war game - the business of his life.

The sympathy of the friends of the Wilkinson family goes to Mrs. Parker in her sorrow.

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