06 June 2007

cyrus parker

Spoke with Eileen K today. She said that she has the complete pension file for Cyrus Parker, too. She said that she also has the military records for Cyrus (which I don't). A couple things about Cyrus that she told me:
1) Cyrus married Nellie Ballou in 1863 in Branch County Michigan. She spoke further with the library and they found a Nellie Parker in an asslyum in Kalamazoo. Was that an insane assylum or perhaps a TB assylum?
2) Witnesses to Cyrus' pension reodcrds were John & Mary Porter. They had a daughter Sarah/Sallie Porter who married James Bradford Parker (grandson of Cyrus).
3) Cyrus was a prisoner of war
4) Cyrus was part of Sherman's march through Georgia

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