Sunday, February 08, 2015

Riley V Parker

Riley V Parker. 

Birth: Sept. 18, 1849, Alabama.
Death: Apr. 20, 1920, Pflugerville, Travis County, Texas.

 Parents: George Fox Parker (1814 - 1899), Mary Polly Jackson Parker (1822 - 1901).

Wife: Mary lack French Parker (1843 - 1938).

Children: Oscar Erastus Parker (1874 - 1958), Gillie L Parker (1878 - 1880), Theo Parker (1884 - 1918).

Siblings: Nancy Louiana Parker Hendricks (1842 - 1913), Socrates Cole Parker (1846 - 1924), Riley V Parker (1849 - 1920), Jonathon L. Parker (1857 - 1919).

Burial: Smithwick Cemetery, Smithwick, Burnet County, Texas.

Texas Frontier Forces.

Capt. Cox, Company B: Reports that on May 4, 1871,Sergeant R. V. Parker and eleven men of his company had tacked and defeated a band of forty Indians on Rocky Creek, Palo Pinto county, killing ten warriors and recapturing forty horses. Four men of company wounded.

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