- Marriage record:
Edward Corder m Elizabeth Perman
5 Oct 1837 Johnson Co, Missouri
NOTE: Marriage record of Edward Corder to Elizabeth Parman. Most researchers seem to be showing her as daughter of Jacob Parman and wife Desey; however that is incorrect. She was Elizabeth Blevins, daughter of Stephen Blevins, Sr.
First and foremost, the most conclusive evidence is the fact that Tarleton Blevins, son of Stephen Blevins, Sr., died intestate in 1841 and the father took care of business. The estate was to be divided amongst his siblings, listing a brother "Edward Corder," one and the same who married "Elizabeth Perman." Parman had to be a 1st husband.
As the families, Blevins and Corder are traced through the decades of census records, they are clearly together in Whitley County, Kentucky, then move to Missouri. Edward's brother James marries Rebecca Blevins, daughter of the above Stephen Blevins, and sister of Elizabeth, his brother Edward's wife.
These families are side by side in every census from 1830 to 1880, last census that Elizabeth and Edward are recorded. Parmars are no so previlantly in their "clique" until 1880 when they are next door on either side.
To know how those Parmans are related, we look at Rebecca Blevins Corder, married to James, Edward's brother and Elizabeth's sister. She was previous married with children named Wood. Two of the Wood daughters married two Parman brothers, sons of Jacob and Desey Parman (Rachel Wood & William Parman in 1860 and Elizabeth Wood m John T. Parman 1857). Those young couples are who are living next door to Elizabeth and Edward in 1880. The wives are Elizabeth's nieces; not the husbands her brothers. If Elizabeth had been a Parman, then her sister's girls married their uncles by marriage, not likely.
And last, there doesn't seem to be any real substantiation that Jacob and Desey even had a daughter Elizabeth that I can find. In fact, it appears that he married and started his family around 1820, a bit late for Elizabeth, b 1818. It's not likely that any of Jacob/Desey sons was her first marriage, but it seems more likely she had married one of John and William Parman's uncles; but she was not born a Parman. Her descendants are descended from the Blevins family.
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