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Thomas Parks (ca. 1670-ca. 1761) was living in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, by 1728. His will, proved in Albermarle County, Virginia, in 1761, listed four sons and three daughters. His descendant, John Nash Parks (1793-1873), was born in Wilkes County, North Carolina, the son of Aaron and Oney Stubblefield Parks. His family migrated to Lincoln County, Tennessee in 1809. He married Elizabeth McMillen (1800-1840) in 1822 in Lincoln Couty. They had ten children, 1823-1839. John and Elizabeth migrated to Marshall County, Mississippi, before the birth of their first child in November 1823. They moved to DeSoto County, Mississippi, ca. 1836 and migrated to Nacogdoches County, Texas ca. 1839. Elizabeth Parks died in Nacogdoches County, Texas and John Parks died in Kickapoo Community, Anderson County, Texas. Descendants lived in Texas, California and elsewhere.
Ancestors include: Benjamin Parks, Sr. (1746-1839), a Revolutionary War soldier of North Carolina and Georgia; William Harben (1675-1733) of England and Prince Georges County, Maryland; Mathias Talley (1799-1872) of South Carolina and Georgia; Johan Jacob Rosenstiel (b. 1793) of Schwartzburg, Germany, and Stevenson County, Illinois; and Isaac Harvey (b. 1818) of England, Illinois, and Kansas.
Ancestors include: Captain Edmond Scarborough (1584-1634) of North Walsham, England; and Virginia -- John Davis, a Revolutionary War soldier of Virginia; and his grandson, William Davis (1798-1870) of Georgia and Salem, Alabama -- Thomas Lockett (d. 1686) of England and Henrico County, Virginia.
Descendants of John Shelton born in late 1700's. He married Catherine Messer in 1805 in Hawkins County, Tennessee.
Biography of Col. James Williams, 1740-1780, the highest ranking officer who died from wounds suffered at the Battle of Kings Mountain (October 7, 1780) during the American Revolutionary War.