Jesse Parker, (related?)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Cherokee Co, Texas
• Census: 1860, Springville P.O., Wood Co, Texas

Notes:

Found in 1850 Cherokee Census living near Matthew Parker. Too young to be Matthew's father, even though same name, Jesse. Related somehow.
A lot of Internet researchers have him confused with the "other" Jesse Parker (d 1849), of Texas historical interest, father of Matthew Parker.

Census:
residence 703
Parker, Matthew 49 1801 TN
Elizabeth 39 1811 TX
Perry 21 1829 TX
Wiley J. 19 1831 TX
Washington J. 17 1833 TX
Andrew J. 15 1835 TX
Alexander W. 13 1837 TX
Sarah E. 1839 TX
Willis W. 9 1841 TX
Amanda 7 1843 TX
Mary A.S. 5 1845 TX
Rebecca 2 1848 TX
Susan 0 1850 TX

residence 707
Parker, Jesse 66 1784 NC
Caroline 57 1793 NC
Jesse 1836 NC

residence 708
Parker, William 1824 NC
Louisa 23 1827 NC
Joseph T. 1 1849 Mississippi


Census:
residence 1
Wm Parker 36 1824 NC farmer
Louisa Parker 33 1827 TN
Joseph F Parker 11 1849 MS
Mary T Parker 8 1852 TX
John W Parker 3 1857 TX
Jessee Parker 78 1872 NC

residence 8
Willis Parker 42 1818 NC
Patience R. 25 1835 Germany
Amanda E.S. 8 1852 MS
Mary A.F. 7 1853 MS
William A.J. 5 1855 MS
John J.H. 2 1858 TX
General M. 8/12 1859 TX

Jesse married Mrs. Caroline (..) Parker about 1822 in North Carolina. Caroline was born in 1793 in North Carolina; died before 1860 in Cherokee Co, or Wood Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Patience Parker was born on 27 Feb 1811 in North Carolina; died in 1882 in Texas.
2. Willis Parker was born in 1818 in North Carolina; died after 1860 in of, Wood Co, Texas.
3. William Parker was born in 1824 in North Carolina; died after 1850 in of, Cherokee Co, Texas.
4. Jesse Parker was born in 1836 in North Carolina; died after 1850 in of, Cherokee Co, Texas.

Notes:

PARKER, JESSE (ca. 1776-1849). Jesse Parker, soldier, pioneer, and early Texas colonist, was probably born in North Carolina around 1776. He moved around 1798 to Georgia and then in 1809 to St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, where he volunteered for ninety days' service in the Thirteenth Louisiana Regiment in the War of 1812. In 1822 he moved his family to Texas and farmed a Spanish land grant near the site of Huntsville as a member of Vehlein's colony (see
VEHLEIN, JOSEPH). He attended the Convention of 1832qv at San Felipe de Austin as a representative of the Sabine District.
He received a land grant of one league, approved on February 11, 1835. He was on the
Old Three Hundredqv original tax list of Washington County in 1837. On December 15, 1837, he was elected by the Republic of Texas legislature to be associate land commissioner for Montgomery County, the last public office he held. His name is on a monument at Franklinton, Washington Parish, Louisiana, for the War of 1812, and on a monument at the courthouse in Hemphill, Texas, honoring prominent men of the area. A Texas Historical Commission marker was dedicated on his grave on March 17, 1981.
Jesse Parker married a woman named Sarah around 1798, and they had seven children.
She died in the spring of 1828 in East Texas. There he married Elizabeth Barker in January 1829, and they also had seven children. The eldest son, Matthew Arnold, was in the Texas army during the Texas Revolution and served as the first county judge of Sabine County. Wiley, the second son, served in the Texas army and was in Wier's detachments at Harrisburg
during the battle of San Jacinto.qv Parker died on May 27, 1849. His wife died on March 4,
1898. Both were buried in a family cemetery near their home. On October 20, 1979, their graves were moved to the lot of their youngest son, Samuel David, at Oakwood Cemetery, Huntsville, Texas.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: "Jesse Parker, Matthew Parker, and Elijah Isaacks," Texana 5
(Summer 1967). Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the Texan
Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941).
B. Elmer Spradley

Extracted from "Walker County, Texas a History", Walker County Genealogical Society and Walker County historical Commission, 1986. Jessie Parker--Texas Pioneer
Jessie Parker was a farmer, soldier, early Texas pioneer, and raised cattle, using his initials "JP" as a stock brand. He moved to Franklin County, Georgia, on Nails Creek about 1798 and the Governor of Georgia signed a passport 30 March 1809 for him through the Creek Indian Nation. Settling west of the Pearl River, arriving 10 August 1809 in now Franklin County, Louisiana. In 1822, he moved across the Sabine to near where Hemphill is today, arriving 12 March. He received a land grant in Now Walker County 11 February 1835 for one league of land, starting about two miles northeast of the Walker County Courthouse. About 1798 he married SARAH (maybe WILEY) and they had six children in Georgia and one in Louisiana.

Jesse married Sarah Wiley about 1798. Sarah was born about 1775; died in 1828 in Huntsville, Walker Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]