Jesse Parker: Our Family History

Generation: 1

1. Jesse Parker was born on 19 Jun 1826 in Sabine Co, Texas (son of Matthew Arnold Parker and Mary Isaacs); died on 4 Apr 1835 in Young Co, Texas.

Generation: 2

Matthew Arnold Parker was born on 17 May 1801 in Nails Creek, Franklin (now Banks) Co, Georgia (son of Jesse Parker, (to Texas) and Sarah Wiley); died on 19 Mar 1862 in Nordheim, Dewitt Co, Texas; was buried in Taylor Cem, South Nordheim, Dewitt Co, Texas.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: Between 1822 and 1846, Sabine Co, Texas
Residence: Between 1847 and 1854, Cherokee Co, Texas
Census: 1850, Cherokee Co, Texas
Residence: 1855, Nordheim, DeWitt Co, Texas
Census: 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas

Notes:

Handbook of Texas Online

PARKER, MATTHEW (1801-1862). Matthew Parker, early Sabine County settler and official, was born in Franklin County, Georgia, on May 17, 1801, the son of Sarah (Wiley) and Jesse Parker. He moved to Texas about 1822 and received a league and a labor of land in what is now Sabine County. Parker's name appears on a July 8, 1836, roll of Capt. A. E. Collins's Company of Sabine Volunteers. He received an additional grant of land for this service, as well as several other grants, which conveyed to him land in Shelby, Harrison, and Cherokee counties. He was appointed chief justice of Sabine County by President Sam Houston on December 20, 1836. In 1840 he was elected by the legislature to serve with three other men on a Sabine County land board that was established to verify local land claims. On July 13, 1846, he was elected a county commissioner for Sabine. Parker married Mary Isaacks about 1821 and they had fourteen children. Mary died in 1845, and in 1846 Matthew married Elizabeth Lowe (or Low); they had four children in Cherokee County between 1847 and 1854. The family moved to the area of Nordheim, in DeWitt County, about 1855. Parker died on March 19, 1862, and was buried in the Taylor Cemetery, three miles south of Cuero.

Mathew Arnold (17 May 1801 - 19__) married Mary Isaacs (c 1824) and they had 12 children: Mahala, Jesse, Morris Moore, Perry, Wiley Jefferson, Washington (Wilson) Laffeyette, Andrew Jackson, Alexander Hamilton, Sarah Elizabeth, William (Willis) Houston, Amanda, Mary (Molly) Samantha. After the death of Mary in 1845, Cherokee County, he married Elizabeth Lowe, and they had 4 children: Rebecca, Susan, Isaac Lowe and Margaret Ann.

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:
1860 Dewitt Co, Texas, Clinton P.O.
pg 36
residence 298
Mabra Jones 40 1820 blacksmith 3500 1500 Kentucky
checked "attended school within the year"
Sarah 39 1821 Missouri
George W. 19 1841 Missouri
Mary M 17 1843 Missouri
Susan D. 13 1847 Texas
Cyrus 8 1852 Texas
Stephen L. 6 1854 Texas
Andrew 3 1857 Texas
M.H. 5/12 1860 Texas
John F. Graves 25 1835 blacksmith Virginia

residence 299
Parker, M. 59 1801 Georgia
Elizabeth 49 1811 Tennessee
Amanda 17 1843 Texas
Mary T. 15 1845 Texas
Susan 10 1850 Texas
Isiah 8 1852 Texas
M.A. 5 1855 female Texas

residence 300
Parker, A.H. 23 1837 Texas
Elizabeth 23 1837 Alabama
Mary 1/23 1860 Alabama

residence 301
Jones, Enoch 74 1786 Delaware
Nancy 67 1793 North Carolina
Lewis B. 22 1838 Mississippi
Rabb Ulesses 29 1831 Texas
Rabb Malissa 27 1833 Mississippi
Tumlinson, Robert F. 7 1853 Texas
Rabb, L.B. 3 1857 Texas
Rabb, Paul M. 10/12 1859 Texas
Steddom, N.B. 13 1847 Texas

residence 302
James Lovelate 62 1798 minister 300 1,000 Tennessee
Nancy 60 1800 South Carolina

residence 303
Jacobs, G.W. 37 1823 Mississippi
Ellena 35 1825 Mississippi
Nancy T. 8 1852 Mississippi
Emeline E. 6 1854 Texas
Mary 2 1858 Texas

residence 304 (prob not related)
Stewart, Joseph 44 1816 Tennessee

(Ancestry translators had the Jones name spelled Louer, Mabre and Lovelady was written as Lovelate.)

(Ancestry translators had the Jones name spelled Louer, Mabre and Lovelady was written aas Lovelate.)

Buried:
Inscription:
IN MEMORY
OF
MATTHEW
PARKER
BORN
MAY 17, 1801
DIED
MAR. 19, 1862

Matthew married Mary Isaacs about 1821. Mary was born about 1800; died in 1845 in Sabine Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary Isaacs was born about 1800; died in 1845 in Sabine Co, Texas.

Notes:

daughter of Elijah Isaacks and Esther Donoho Isaacks.

Children:

Mahalia Parker was born on 27 Apr 1825 in Sabine Co, Texas; died in 1882 in Rusk, Cherokee Co, Texas.
1. Jesse Parker was born on 19 Jun 1826 in Sabine Co, Texas; died on 4 Apr 1835 in Young Co, Texas.
Morris Moore Parker was born on 2 Nov 1827 in Sabine Co, Texas; died on 4 Apr 1835 in Young Co, Texas.
Perry Parker was born on 16 Nov 1828 in Sabine Co, Texas; died in 1855 in Tucson, Arizona.
Wiley Jefferson Parker was born on 12 Feb 1830 in Sabine Co, Texas; died on 28 Dec 1907 in Beeville, Bee Co, Texas.
Washington (Wilson) Laffeyette Parker was born on 17 Sep 1832 in Nacogdoches Co, Texas; died on 12 Aug 1917 in Redding, Shasta Co, California.
Andrew Jackson Parker was born in 1835 in Texas; died after 1850 in of, Cherokee Co, Texas.
Alexander Hamilton Parker was born on 12 Jan 1837 in Sabine Co, Texas; died on 28 Aug 1915 in Lingelville, Texas.
Sarah Elizabeth Parker was born in 1839 in Texas; died after 1850 in of, Cherokee Co, Texas.
William (Willis) Houston Parker was born on 1 Jan 1841 in Cherokee Co, Texas; died in Nov 1911 in San Saba Co, Texas.
Amanda Eunice Parker was born on 9 Dec 1842 in Rusk, Cherokee Co, Texas; died on 7 Sep 1919 in Oakville, Live Oahu Co, Texas.
Mary Samantha "Molly" Parker was born on 17 Nov 1844 in Sabine Co, Texas; died on 20 Aug 1919 in Goliad Co, Texas; was buried in Runge City Cem, Runge, Karnes Co, Texas.

Generation: 3

Jesse Parker, (to Texas) was born in 1775 in Gates, North Carolina; died on 27 May 1849 in Huntsville, Walker Co, Texas; was buried in Oakwood Cem, Huntsville, Walker 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]

Sarah Wiley was born about 1775; died in 1828 in Huntsville, Walker Co, Texas.

Children:

Jesse Parker, (related?) was born in 1784 in North Carolina; died in 1862 in Cherokee Co, Texas.
2. Matthew Arnold Parker was born on 17 May 1801 in Nails Creek, Franklin (now Banks) Co, Georgia; died on 19 Mar 1862 in Nordheim, Dewitt Co, Texas; was buried in Taylor Cem, South Nordheim, Dewitt Co, Texas.
Wiley Parker was born in 1803 in Nails Creek, Franklin Co, Georgia; died on 10 Mar 1847 in Huntsville, Walker Co, Texas.