FAMILY GROUP SHEET – John Harrison Parkison
HUSBAND: John Harrison Parkison[1][2]
72
Born: 20 Oct 1811
Harrison Cty, PA[3]
Marr: 11 Mar 1839
Madison Cty, OH[4]
25
Died: 20 Dec 1891
Near Rosedale, Parke Cty, Indiana
Buried:
1892
Monteith Cmty, Monteith, Guthrie Cty, IA[5]
Prob:
1894[6]
Parents: Natural
Ref: PAF00072
Occ: Farmer, Civ War
Edited: 5 Oct 1990
Mar Ed: 5 Oct 1990
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WIFE: Lydia Ann Alkire[7]
71
Born: 30 Nov 1820
Mt Sterling, Pickaway Cty, OH
Died: 26 Mar 1900
Guthrie County, IA
Buried:
Mar 1900
Monteith Cmty, Monteith, Guthrie Cty, IA
Parents: Natural
Edited: 20 Jan 1992
Father: John Harrison Alkire
67
Mother: Sarah Skiles
68
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CHILDREN_(X_=_ancestor_of_preparer)_____________________________________________
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1|
Name: Sarah Jane Parkison[8]
141
F|
Born: 20 Jul 1841
Madison Cty, OH
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Marr: 21 Aug 1859
IN
58
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To: Andrew Jackson Laney[8]
142
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Died: 30 Jan 1930
Monteith, Guthrie Cty, IA
|Parents: Natural
| Edited: 9 May 1987
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2|
Name: Margaret Parkison[8]
144
F|
Born: 28 Jun 1843
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Marr:
60
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To: George Baker[8]
145
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Died: 11 Sep 1909
Spearfish, SD
| Buried:
Black Hawk, Meade Cty, SD
|Parents: Natural
| Edited: 9 May 1987
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3|
Name: Elizabeth "Lizzie" Parkison[9]
158
F|
Born: 16 Nov 1845
Madison Cty, OH
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Marr:
(?) Panora, Guthrie Cty, IA
65
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To: Levigh Summey[8]
159
|Parents: Natural
| Edited: 18 Oct 1989
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Prepared by: Brent K. Wilcox
Rel. to husband: 2G-GrandSon
Rel. to wife: 2G-GrandSon
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WIFE: Lydia Ann Alkire
CHILDREN_(Continued)____________________________________________________________
4|
Name: John A. Parkison[10]
161
M|
Born: 11 May 1847
Madison Cty, OH
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Marr: 30 Nov 1871
Panora, Guthrie Cty, IA
67
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To: Rose Cameron[8]
162
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Died: 12 May 1940
Black Hills, Rapid City, SD
| Buried:
Rockerville, Pennington Cty, SD
|Parents: Natural
| Edited: 12 Nov 1989
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5|
Name: William Henry Harrison Parkison[11][12]
73
M|
Born: 16 Dec 1848
Madison Cty, OH[13]
X|
Marr: 29 Jun 1879
Guthrie Cty, IA
26
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To: Nancy Matilda Waggoner[8]
74
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Died: 18 Jun 1942
Guthrie Cty, IA
| Buried:
Rose Hill Cmty, Guthrie Cty, Menlo, IA
|Parents: Natural
|
Ref: PAF00073
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Occ: Farmer
| Edited: 14 Jun 1990
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6|
Name: Cynthia Ann Parkison[14]
330
F|
Born: 1 Sep 1852
IN[15]
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Marr: 20 Oct 1874
117
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To: Josiah Nelson Linton[16]
351
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Died:
Dec 1902
Near Sundance, WY[17]
| Buried:
Mount Moriah Cmt, Sundance, WY[18]
|Parents: Natural
| Edited: 27 Mar 1990
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7|
Name: Thomas Jefferson Parkison[19]
329
M|
Born: 24 Dec 1852
Terre Haute, Vigo Cty, IN[20]
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Marr: 31 Dec 1877
113
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To: Sarah Emily "Tet" Cameron[21]
333
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Died: 21 Dec 1945
Stuart, IA
| Buried:
Monteith Cmty, Monteith, IA
|Parents: Natural
| Edited: 18 Feb 1990
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8|
Name: George Milton Parkison[8]
331
M|
Born: 9 Mar 1856
Parke Cty, Rosedale, IN
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Died: 10 Apr 1951
Stuart, IA
|Parents: Natural
| Edited: 9 May 1987
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HUSBAND: John Harrison Parkison
WIFE: Lydia Ann Alkire
CHILDREN_(Continued)____________________________________________________________
9|
Name: Amariah Parkison[8]
332
M|
Born: 9 Mar 1856
Parke Cty, Rosedale, IN
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Died: 9 Mar 1856
Parke Cty, Rosedlae, IN
|Parents: Natural
| Edited: 9 May 1987
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10|
Name: Joseph Parkison[22]
75
M|
Born: 23 Dec 1857
Rosedale, IN
X|
Marr: 12 Apr 1883
Guthrie Cty, IA
27
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To: Clara Emaline Mains[8]
76
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Died: 23 Jul 1953
Alzada, MT
| Buried:
1953
Alzada Cmty, MT
|Parents: Natural
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Ref: PAF00075
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Occ: Rancher
| Edited: 11 Mar 1990
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REFERENCES______________________________________________________________________
[1]Esther Parkison Papers, in custody of Brent K. Wilcox Gracie Stering
Papers, in custody of Brent K. Wilcox Monteith Cemetery Records, Guthrie
County, Iowa, Genealogical Soc, Vol 16, 1984., in custody of Brent K.
Wilcox History Guthrie and Adair County,_Iowa, Continental Hist, 1884, in
custody of Brent K. Wilcox Church Advocate, Harrisburg, VA, in custody of
Brent K. Wilcox.
[2]1850 Ohio Federal Census, Madison County, Pleasant Twp, lists:
John Parkison, age 37; Lydia, age 30; Sarah, age 9, Nancy M., age 7;
Elizabeth M., age 5; John, age 3; Wm W. W. [H. H.], age 10/12.
1860 Indiana Federal Census, Vigo County, Otter Creek, Terra Haute Post
Office, lists:
John H. Parkison and four children
1870 Iowa Federal Census, Guthrie County, Jackson Township, lists:
John H. Parkison, wife, and six of their nine children
1880 Iowa Federal Census, still in Jackson Township, lists:
John H. Parkison, wife, and sons George and Joseph
1885 Iowa State Census, still in Jackson Township, lists:
John H. Parkison, wife, and son George who never married. The farm was
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HUSBAND: John Harrison Parkison
WIFE: Lydia Ann Alkire
REFERENCES_(Continued)__________________________________________________________
left to him after JHP died.
native born.
Shows JHP's father foreign born and mother
[3]There is no Harrison Cty in PA today. See notes for details.
[4]Church Advocate, Harrisburg, VA, in custody of Brent K. Wilcox.
[5]Stone of JHP and wife Lydia were in fair shape when I visited in 1989.
[6]Copies of probate proceeding in my files.
[7]Jim R. Glacking Papers, Excerpts, in custody of Brent K. Wilcox Carl
Porter Papers, Excerpts, in custody of Brent K. Wilcox Cleo Ridgeway
Papers, Excerpts, in custody of Brent K. Wilcox Monteith Cemetery Records,
Guthrie County, Iowa, Genealogical Soc, Vol 16, 1984., in custody of Brent
K. Wilcox Ethel Hazel Wilcox, Ethel Wilcox Linton Papers, 1957 Excerpts,
in custody of Brent K. Wilcox.
[8]Brent K. Wilcox.
[9]Ethel Hazel Wilcox, Ethel Wilcox Linton Papers, 1957 Excerpts, in custody
of Brent K. Wilcox.
[10]Esther Parkison Papers, in custody of Brent K. Wilcox Brent K. Wilcox.
[11]Cecil Wayne Parkison, Cecil Parkison Letters, in custody of Brent K.
Wilcox Ethel Hazel Wilcox, Ethel Wilcox Linton Papers, 1957 Excerpts, in
custody of Brent K. Wilcox Athel William Miller, Miller Family History,
December 1982, in custody of Brent K. Wilcox.
[12]
The 1885 Iowa State Census, Guthrie County, Beaver Township, house
number 100, dwelling number 100 shows William Parkerson (misspelled from
Parkison) and family: William, age 35, born Ohio, occupation farmer; Nancy,
age 28, born Wisconsin; Minnie, age 5, born Kansas; George, age 3, born
Kansas; and Joseph List, age 17.
The same census shows Minnie's parents adjacent in house and dwelling
number 99: John Waggoner, age 65, born Ohio; "Jennie" age 56, born
Virginia; and Mary, age 19, born Nebraska.
The 1900 US Iowa Census, Guthrie County, Beaver Township, shows the
William H. H. Parkison family: William, age 50, born Ohio Dec 1849, father
born PA and mother born Ohio; Nancy M., age 44, born Wisconsin Sep 1857,
father born Ohio, mother born Virginia; George A., age 18, born Iowa Feb
1882; Charles M., age 9, born Iowa Jul 1890; and Marion, age 4, born Iowa
Mar 1896.
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HUSBAND: John Harrison Parkison
WIFE: Lydia Ann Alkire
REFERENCES_(Continued)__________________________________________________________
[13]His stone says 1849-1942.
[14]Esther Parkison Papers, in custody of Brent K. Wilcox Gracie Stering
Papers, in custody of Brent K. Wilcox Ethel Hazel Wilcox, Ethel Wilcox
Linton Papers, 1957 Excerpts, in custody of Brent K. Wilcox.
[15]Ethel Linton and Esther Parkison say 1854.
[16]Gracie Stering Papers, in custody of Brent K. Wilcox Esther Parkison
Papers, in custody of Brent K. Wilcox Ethel Hazel Wilcox, Ethel Wilcox
Linton Papers, 1957 Excerpts, in custody of Brent K. Wilcox.
[17]Ethel and Esther say in Dec 1907 Cynthia froze during a blizzard.
[18]Esther Parkison reports no stone on Cynthia's grave.
[19]Gracie Stering Papers, in custody of Brent K. Wilcox.
[20]Ethel Linton says 1850.
[21]Gracie Stering Papers, in custody of Brent K. Wilcox Ethel Hazel Wilcox,
Ethel Wilcox Linton Papers, 1957 Excerpts, in custody of Brent K. Wilcox.
[22]Ethel Hazel Wilcox, Autobiography, January 1957, in custody of Brent K.
Wilcox Ethel Hazel Wilcox, Ethel Wilcox Linton Papers, 1957 Excerpts, in
custody of Brent K. Wilcox Athel William Miller, Miller Family History,
December 1982, in custody of Brent K. Wilcox.
NOTES___________________________________________________________________________
This is the patriarch of the Parkison line. Various spellings will
confuse the issue, but "Parkison" is the most correct. His birth place
county is in question. Most records show Harrison County, Pennsylvania in
1811. However, this cannot be. According to the Genealogical Society of
Pennsylvania in a May 1990 letter to my cousin Gracie Stering:
"The areas of present day Washington, Westmorland, Greene and Fayette
counties were originally in dispute between the provinces of Pennsylvania
and Virginia. Virginia considered them part of the District of Augusta.
This district later became the counties of Yohogania, Monongalia, and Ohio.
Harrison county was later taken from Monongalia county. The situation was
cleared up after 1784, and the current state boundaries were established as
they now stand. There is (now) no Harrison County in Pennsylvania. It was
confusing and could be confused in 1800, too. But there has never been a
Harrison cunty in Pennsylvania. There was once a Harrison County,
Virginia, which was located in in that part of Virginia now recognized as
Pennsylvania."
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There's a family story that the Parkison line was actually Brown. I
quote from a monograph by my cousin Mary (Miller) Kropf of May 1979:
"Much of this information is taken from a series of letters written by
George Don Alkire of Fresno, CA to Minnie Parkison Miller during 1967,
1968. George was interested in tracing a common ancestor, the great
grandparents of both George and Minnie, John H. Alkire and Sarah Skiles.
John H. Alkire, Jr and his wife, Mary Jane Overpeck lived on the next farm
beside Minnie's uncle, Thomas J. Parkison and Sarah Cameron between 1870
and 1881, In Guthrie County, Jackson Twp, IA. He stated that Myrtle
Parkison and her daughter Almira lived on the old homestead near Keystone,
SD.
"John H. Alkire (born 1779, died in 1875) married Sarah Skiles (born
1797) in Pleasant Twp, Madison Cty, OH in 1819. They raised four children:
Lydia Ann, who carried on our line; W.H.H.; Thomas; and John H. Junior.
John H. Alkire was born in KY and came up from there when quite young, with
his father. Sarah Skiles was born in Madison Cty, OH around the Mt.
Sterling area.
"Lydia Ann Alkire (1820-1900) married John Harrison Parkison, who
fought in the Civil War....To them were born five children: John Harrison
II [III], William Henry Harrison (who carried on our line), Sarah Jane,
Joseph [who married into my Wilcox line], and Thomas J. [Subsequent
research shows a total of ten children with these added: Margaret,
Elizabeth, Cynthia Ann, George Milton and Amariah.]
"Following is from one of the letters written to Minnie from
George Alkire, dtd 1 Dec 1967: 'Say Minnie, I got a question for you. Tom
Linton told me over a year ago when I was visiting him and his wife that
really the Parkison name should be Brown. Can you explain that? Tom
Linton says that when John Harrison Parkison, your grandfather, was a baby and
his parents' name were Brown, that Mr Brown died and Mrs Brown got sick and
had to be cared for (both she and the baby) by the neighbors who were
Parkisons. Soon that mother, Mrs Brown, died; so the Parkisons just raised
the baby and even gave him their name Parkison. Now, I never asked anyone
about it, but tonight a letter came from Johnnie Parkison of Yuba City, CA
(actually his daughter, Gracie, wrote for her dad Johnny) and the letter
says that Johnnie Parkison says that the Parkison name might well have been
Brown, for his Grandfather, John Harrison Parkison, was an adopted boy. His
letter also says that Sarah Parkison's daughter Jane and one time was
working on the details of that. That would be a nice thing for the
Parkison family to have figured out. I'd like to know how it is too. What
knowledge do you have on the subject? I'd appreciate knowing. It also
strikes me that George Abner Parkison mentioned that his grandfather's name
was changed from Brown to Parkison. As I recall, he mentioned that when I
visited him and his wife last year at Stuart, IA.'
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FAMILY GROUP SHEET – John Harrison Parkison
HUSBAND: John Harrison Parkison
WIFE: Lydia Ann Alkire
NOTES_(Continued)_______________________________________________________________
"In another letter, 5 Jan 1968, George stated: 'Your grandmother, Lydia
Ann Alkire Parkison, caught diptheria and so did all members in her home at
that time. She went on for 80 years; and those children of hers went on
for an average of 93 years. Wow!!' " [Thanks to Mary Kropf of Normal,
OK.]
My Aunt, Ethel Wilcox Linton, writes "Grandpa Joe Parkison told me, in
a no-nonsense tone, there were two boys on that ship, and the Brown boy's
folks did die [she underscored the "did die"] and [was] took in by
Parkisons. That's all I know about it -- just his opinion." This puts a
different twist to the story! Was there a shipwreck involved?
Again according to the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania in May
1990: "Adoptions were very rare in the early nineteenth century. And,
guardianships were usually involved with probate proceedings. Any records
of adoptions or guardianships would be in the county court housed..."
Gracie Stering is in the searching process right now.
JHP Was described by Rev John M. Mullen in 1892 as "one of the pioneers
of the great State of Ohio." He moved on to Licking Cty, OH where he
"happily converted to God" and then moved from there to Madison Cty, OH
where he married Lydia Ann Alkire 11 March 1839. Mullen says ten children
were born to them "including thirty four grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren [in 1892]." In 1851, JHP moved to Parker Cty, IN. In 1868,
he moved the family to Guthrie Cty, IA, and joined the Missionary Baptist
Church in 1874. He joined the Church of God in 1887 after the baptist
church was disorganized.
JHP was a Civil War veteran. He first enslisted with the 71st Indiana
Infantry in 1862, but was refused on account of his age. He then enlisted
at Clinton, Indiana 12 November 1863 in Company C, 123rd Regiment, Indiana
Infantry Volunteers, as a private. Fudged about his age. He was honorably
discharged at Lexington, North Carolina on 25 August 1865. At times during
his service, he was disabled with inflammatory rheumatism which caused some
disability in his later years. He eventually received a pension.
According to service records he stood 5 feet 8 1/2 inches, and was light
complected with blue eyes and light hair.
The 1 Jan 1891 Guthrie County "Vedette" indicates John H. Parkison died
while in Indiana on business. Son Joseph (my Wilcox' paternal line) went
to get his body and while gone, Joseph's daughter Lydia died of diptheria.
John's obiturary appeared in the Vedette on 16 Oct 1892. He's buried next
to Lydia in the tiny cemetery at Monteith, IA, a small community not far
from Guthrie Center, IA. Their stones were in good shape and quite legible
when I visited there in May, 1989.
Monteith, IA was a thriving community from the 1880's to about 1950.
It is not now an incorporated town, but some of what was the main street is
still there. My great grandfather O.P. Wilcox ran the blacksmith shop
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HUSBAND: John Harrison Parkison
WIFE: Lydia Ann Alkire
NOTES_(Continued)_______________________________________________________________
c1885 and the shop is still standing today.
homes in Monteith, IA.
Many families still make their
My line extends into two lines from John and Lydia Parkison: W.H.H.
(maternal Miller) and Joseph (paternal Wilcox) Parkison.
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