1643-1898
History and Genealogy
Of the Family of
Deacon Lovel Parker
Who Emigrated From
Barkhamsted, Conn., to Kinsman, Ohio,
In the year 1816
Complied by
Rufus H. and L.N. Parker
1898
"Miss Sadie R. Parker"
"Printed by the Mason Press, Syracuse, N.Y."
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Transcription Note
This book was transcribed by scanning the text into Microsoft "Word" using an HP 3570c scanner and the accompanying software. The text has been reviewed and is believed to accurately reflect the original, with errors identified in the original "errata" and some additional obvious errors corrected.
This effort was undertaken in memory of my late mother, Helen Josephine Kile Stewart (daughter of Helen Hunter Parker Kile) who, about 1975, retyped the entire text manually in order to enable a wider distribution of the book.
William K. Stewart
Denton, Texas
May 2004
Photo of Residence of Deacon Lovel Parker, Barkhamsted, Connecticut, 1898
PREFACE..
TWENTY-FIVE years ago my brother, Claudius, became deeply interested in the genealogy of our family, and accumulated several books and quite an amount of manuscript bearing upon the subject. After his death, which occurred in 1883, his family removed from Sewickley, Pa., where his home had been, to Ohio; and in some unaccountable way the manuscripts were lost. Ten or twelve years later, Cousin Rufus Parker turned his attention to the matter, for the purpose of establishing the eligibility of the female members of the family to join the society of the Daughters of the Revolution.
As he progressed with his investigations he felt the need of some one to aid him, and appealed to me for help. At first I did not take much interest in the matter; but, encountering obstacles which seemed almost insurmountable, my pride to overcome them became aroused, and it was not long before we both vied with each other in the work.
We left no stone unturned to secure reliable and accurate information; searched published and original records, and felt elated by securing a record that is almost absolutely complete, so far as we attempted to produce it.
Cousin Rufus contemplated putting our work into form for preservation, and so hand down to the generations yet to come, the history of our ancestors; but Death called him home before it was ready to be prepared for the press. Knowing full well this intention of his, and realizing its value to the family, his sister, Le Mira, took up the work where he left it, and we have pushed it to a completion.
It is a pleasure to remember all who have aided us, but they are too numerous to mention in full here, so I will content myself by saying that without the assistance rendered by Dr. Charles J. Hoadley, Connecticut State Librarian; Hon. William Wallace Lee, of Meriden; Capt. Henry R. Jones, of New Hartford; Miss Mary L. Hart, of Barkhamsted; Mr. D. N. Gaines, of East Hartland; Mr. James Allen Kibbe, of Warehouse Point; and Messrs. A. S. Chapman, Jeffery O. Phelps, and Henry Ensign, of Simsbury, Conn., our efforts would not have been as successful as they were.
Aside from personal assistance we have received much valuable information which threw light upon our genealogy and history, from "Colonial Records of New Haven," two volumes; "Colonial Records of Connecticut," two volumes; "Connecticut Historical Collections," J. W. Barber; "History of Wallingford," Dr. Charles Davis; "Savage's Genealogical Dictionary;" "Connecticut Men in the Revolution," and many other works.
With this explanation of the inception and progress of this work, I submit it believing it will be of interest and use to members of the family, long after all who aided in compiling it have passed away.
L. N. PARKER.
Dedicated to the memory
Of
Rufus H. Parker
By Nature, Noble; By Profession and Practice a Christian,
During Life, Honest and Benevolent;
He fell asleep August 9th, 1898
With Love to God and Man, and a Full Faith in a Glorious Eternity
Photo of Rufus H. Parker
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