Thomas L. Parker, farmer, section 22, Union Township, settled upon his present farm in February, 1883. It is a part of a tract of land that his father, Asa L. Parker, located in 1874. He was born in Holmes County, Ohio, in 1843, and in 1852 came to Cedar County, this State. He was reared on his father’s farm and educated in the public school. During the war of the Rebellion he was in the State service six months. He came to Carroll County in the fall of 1870, but settled just over the county line, in Audubon County, where he lived seven years. From there he went to Ringgold County, where he lived four years, and in 1881 returned to Carroll County. He was married in Cedar County to Miss Rosanna Hilan, daughter of David Hilan, who came from Ohio to Cedar County in 1847, and lived but a short time after the family reached Iowa. He left two children — Mrs. Parker, aged eleven months, and James, aged three and a half years. The mother again married after the death of her husband, and by this marriage had two children. She died in 1860. James, the brother of Mrs. Parker, is also deceased, so that she is the only living member of her father’s family. Mr. and Mrs. Parker have seven children — Albertie, Alice, Maude, Elmer, Richard, Beulah and Asa L.

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