- Further research is needed to resolve conflicting evidence surrounding the sons of John and Sarah Parker, specifically 1) the number of sons, 2) the identity of "Unnamed Parker," 3-month-old male, born about May/June 1860, found in the household of John Parker in the 1860 census, and 3) information about Calvin Parker.
The 1850, 1860, and 1870 federal censuses support the number of six sons; this includes the unnamed male infant found in the 1860 census, born about May/June 1860. In the 1870 census, no son is listed with a birth year equaling 1860, so it is likely that Calvin died before the 1870 census was taken, but more research is needed. In her 1907 Eastern Cherokee Application, daughter Georgiana Emma Parker Taylor lists the names of six brothers: "Ransom Berry Parker, Emmitt Parker, Calvin Parker, Johnnie Parker, Willie Parker, Joseph Parker”. This is the same birth order found on the three census records, including "Calvin," who falls in the proper birth order to be the unnamed male infant born in 1860.
The one piece of conflicting evidence is found in a newspaper article (“100-Year-Old Woman Ready to Meet Old Friends Today,” (Seminole, Oklahoma) Seminole Producer, 27 February 1955, p. 2, col. 1). The article states "she [Emma Taylor] had seven brothers." There is a possibility that the newspaper reporter misreported the number of Parker sons as seven instead of six, or that Emma Taylor misremembered the number of brothers in her interview, which was given when she was 100 years old.
Since the census records and the 1907 Eastern Cherokee Application (filled out when Emma Taylor was 52 years old) are more reliable sources than the newspaper interview, the information for Calvin Parker and the 1860 census's "Unnamed Parker" male infant were combined. Further research is needed.
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Early Texans DNA Project
1860 - 1870 (9 years)
