07-James Harvey Parker
Birth: 3 Aug 1881, Indiana
Death: Jun 1946, Indiana- age 64
Burial: Mt Hebron Cemetery
Mother: Elizabeth "Libby" Garriott

Marriage: 24 Feb 1904, Wash Co, IN
Spouse: Bessie Claire GARDNER
Birth: about 1886, IN
Death: 1 Dec 1971, Wash Co, IN- age 85
Burial: Mt Hebron Cemetery
Occupation: SSN: 304-34-6396/IN
Father: Lycurgus Harry Hudson MD (1842-1913)
Mother: Ella Maude Garriott (1864-1953)

     CHILDREN: Bessie and James had four children:
08----OLIVE H PARKER [b. about 1904, IN; d. 8 Oct 1965, Louisville, Jefferson Co, KY- age 61];
08----KENNETH G PARKER [b. about 1906, IN];
08----GEORGE W PARKER [b. 4 Dec 1911, d. 21 Mar 1916- age 4, buried Mt Hebron]; and
08----PAUL PARKER [b. 31 Oct 1917, d. 3 Dec 1918- age 1, buried Mt Hebron].

     CENSUS:
     1910 Gibson Twp, Wash Co, IN census: has (all b. IN) James H Parker 28, Farmer-General Farm; Bessie Parker 24 (2 children-2 living); Olive H Parker 5; and Kenneth Parker 4.
     1920 Gibson Twp, Wash Co, IN census: had (all b. IN) James H Parker 38; Bessie C Parker 34; Olive H Parker 15; Kenneth G Parker 13.
     1930 Gibson Twp, Wash Co, IN census: has (both b. IN) James H Parker 48, Farmer-General Farm; and Bessie Parker 44.
     1940 Gibson Twp, Wash Co, IN census: has (all b. IN) James H Parker 58, Farmer-Farm; Bessie Parker 54; Ella M Hudson 75 (Mother-in-Law); and Eugene Purlee 18 (Hired Hand).

     BIOGRAPHY: Bessie's birth father, Thompson A Gardner [b. 1864, d. 7 Dec 1885- age 21, Louisville, KY], died by drowning in the Ohio River while awaiting a ferry boat to return him to Indiana after taking produce to Louisville. 7, 43 He died before Bessie was a year old. Thompson A Gardner is listed as being divorced from Lucy J Gardner on 26 Sep 1884, Wash Co, IN: Bk W/388, 409. This marriage would have been prior to his marriage to Bessie's mother, Ella Maude Garriott.
     Bessie married her first cousin, James H Parker, son of George Parker and Elizabeth Garriott. James H Parker is listed as grandson in James M "Uncle Jimmie" Garriott's will-- abstract dated 20 Mar 1890.

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