Biographical Sketch of G. W. Parker, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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G. W. Parker, the subject of this sketch is a native of Barren County,
Ky., born in 1835.  His early life was passed there, receiving in the
meantime as liberal an education as an attendance in the common schools
of that day would admit.  In 1853, he came to Missouri, and settled on
a farm in Lafayette county, where he now resides.  Four years of his 
life was spent traveling in the west.  Enlisted in 1861, in Colonel
Elliott's regiment, in which he served three months.  Was engaged in 
the battle of Lexington.  In the fall of 1861, he started south, and 
was captured near Springfield, Mo., and was held prisoner for thirty
days, when he was paroled.  In 1867, he was united in marriage to
Miss Anna Tickle, of Lafayette county.  They became the parents of four
children, viz.: Eva, Fannie, Flora and George W., all now living.  Mr.
Parker is the son of John and Ann E. Parker, who moved from Virginia to
Kentucky, in an early day.  His father served in the War of 1812.  Mr.
Parker's post office address is Odessa.

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