(1807, NC – 1865, GA) (Represented)  m. Elizabeth Head Morris  (1812, GA – 1878, GA), 1830, Union County, GA.  Various enumerations of children range from 10 to 15, with the number more likely to be 12.  While proof certain is lacking it appears that this John Gray Parks is a descendant of the Thomas of Virginia line, LK = “C” 

Children:

• Sarah Caroline (02GT1) Parks, (1830, GA – 1918, TX)  m1)  Samuel J. C. Freeman (1827, NC – 1855, TN) 1849, Union Co., GA,  3 children;  m2) Martin Andrew Greenwood (1816, NC – 1864, TN) 1860, Union Co., GA, (as his second wife),  3 children.

• Susan Adeline (02GT2) Parks, (1833, GA – 1924, TX)  m.  Jesse Richardson Grantham, (1833, GA – 1903, TX) 1851, Union Co., GA,  9 children.

• Eliza Ann (02GT3) Parks, (1836, GA – 1918, TX)  m.  Francis Marion Conley (1834,GA – 1903,TX) 1860, Union Co., GA,  8 children.

• Mary Harriet (02GT4) Parks, (1837, GA – 1925, TX)  m.  Jonathan  Curtis Walker (1831, NC – 1900, GA) 1854, Union Co., GA,  8 children;  .

• John Washington “Wash” (02GT5) Parks, (1831, GA – 1925, TN)  m1)  Sarah F. Jones (1840, NC – 1855, TN) 1849, Union Co., GA,  no issue;  m2) Sarah Adaline Bandy (1866, TN – 1943, TN) 1906, Union Co., GA, (as his second wife),  2 children.

• Margaret Elizabeth (02GT6) Parks, (1841, GA – 1935, GA)  m.  James Andrew Reid  (1832, NC – 1891, GA) 1858, Union Co., GA,  12 children;  

• Frances L. (02GT7) Parks, (1845, GA – 1912, TN)  m.  Jasper L. Owenby  (1847, GA – 1932, TN) 1870, Union Co., GA,  3 children. 

• Martha Angeline (02GT8) Parks, (1846, GA – 1913, TX)  m.  Samuel Pinkney Reid (1835, NC – 1925, TX) before 1867, location unknown,  7 children.

• Thomas Jefferson (02GT10) Parks, (1849, GA – 1925, TX). We find no record of a marriage or issue.  

• Iowa Clementine  (02GT11) Parks, (1851, GA – 1934, AR)  m.  Benjamin Franklin Wofford,  (1850, GA – 1902, MO) 1870, Union Co., GA,  6 children. 2

• Eppy  Franklin (02GT12) Parks, (1847, GA – 1921, OK)  m.  Mary Levona Anderson, (1854, GA – 1839, OK) 1872, Union Co., GA,  9 children;

• Elizabeth C. (02GT15) Parks, (1838, GA – 1927, GA)  m.  Macajah “Cage” Emanuel Burnett,  (1839, GA – 1930, GA) 1860, Union Co., GA, 6 children.

• The following entries on the original family group sheet have the stated issues:  02GT9, Franklin is really 02GT13   Eppy Franklin Parks;  I can no other evidence for 02GT12 Emma Parks (supposedly died as an infant) or 02GT14, Virgil.  Neither of these appear in the 1850 or 1860 Census for Union County, Georgia.

(PS#1029L)