Andrew Jackson Parker

The Parker family history is from "History of Franklin County, AR" by Goodspeed and Paul Conley's Conley family records. Andrew Parker was listed on his monument in the Vaught Cemetery as "Co. L 2nd Ark. Cav. 2nd husband of Kizzie (Conley) Shepherd. He was a stock raiser, was born in Morgan County, Tennessee, He was accompanied a half-brother to Arkansas when but ten years old, and was reared in Carroll and Marion Counties, Arkansas. When tenty years old he was marreid, in Crawford County to Eliza Johnson, and then fammed in Crawford County until the dath of his wife, eightyears later. His second marriage occured in Franklin County, Mrs, Keziah Shepherd, a widow, becoming his wife. This lady died in August 1866, and the present wife of Mr. Parker, whom he married in this county, was Miss. Hannah Johnson, daughter, daughter of John Johnson, now deceased, but formerly of Kentucky, where Mrs. Parker was born. By his first marriage Mr. Parker had four children: Mary C., wife of James Rankins; William, John, Ollive wife of Irving Fugett.