Samuel K. Parker (abt. 1794 - 1843)

Born about 1794 in New Madrid County, Missouri

Descendants

Died 1843 at about age 49 in Washington County, Illinois

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Biography

Samuel was born about 1795 in New Madrid County, Missouri and a son of Samuel Parker and Elizabeth Williams.1814. Samuel Parker was a private in Col. William Russell's Regiment of Mounted Rangers for one year for services on the frontiers of Missouri and Illinois. The Cape Girardeau Company was completed and mustered into service on July 2, 1814 and was engaged in guarding the frontiers when the battle of the SINK HOLE occurred. This battle was fought is what is now Lincoln County, Missouri, not far from Cap Au Gris. - ^[1] He died in Illinois and there's a good chance he was buried on his homestead. That was a common practice during this time period. They were poor people and it likely a wooden cross or a rock stone was used for a marker. The cemetery is probably no longer exist. He passed away in 1843 and buried in the Parker Family Cemetery in Washington County, Illinois.^[2][3]

Sources

1. ↑ HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, Goodspeed, pages: 490-495,
2. ↑ A Memorial On Find A Grave (Memorial Number: 55137233).
3. ↑ 180882673

Tax Lists

1820 --- Cape Girardeau County, Missouri --- 1820 TAX LIST - Cape Girardeau, Missouri - Louisiana Terrority --- Samuel K. Parker - Male 18-26 - Female (under 10) - Female (16-26).

1821 --- Cape Girardeau County, Missouri --- Cape Girardeau County: Combined Land and Property Tax: 1821-1822-1823: Samuel K. Parker -- Jesse Parker -- John L. Parker. MISSOURI TAXPAPERS 1819-1826, compiled by Stanley, Wilson & Wilson, page: 17.

Censuses

1830 --- U. S. Federal Census, Washington Counnty, Illinois ----- Samuel K. Parker - Page: 182 - 2 Males (under 5) - 1 Male (30-40) -- 2 Females (under 5) - 1 Female (5-10) - 2 Females (10-15) - 1 Female (20-30) - female (30-40). ---Source Informatio: Ancestry.com. --- 1830 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by Family Search. --- Original data: Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Land Transactions

1839 --- Samuel K. and Elizabeth Parker -- Sold To -- John Morgan -- Acres: 20 -- W1/2 of SE1/4 of SE1/4 -- Section: 18 -- Township: 1 South -- Range: 4 West -- Price: $100.00 -- March 9, 1839 -- County: Washington -- State: Illinois -- Deed Record Book: B - Pagr: 166 - Source: WASHINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE RECORDS, Nashville, Washington County, Illinois.

1839 --- Samuel K. and Elizabeth Parker -- Sold To -- Edmund B. Walker --Acres: 40 more or less -- NW1/4 NW1/4 - Section: 10 -- Township 1 South - Range: 4 West - Price: $55.00 -- July 16, 1939 -- County: Washington -- State: Illinois -- Deed Record Book: B -- Page: 122 --- Source: Washington County Court House Records, Nashville, Washington County, Illinois.

Military

1814 --MISSOURI RANGERS CRAIG'S COMPANY

May 1814-June 1815

Samuel Parker

James Masterson

Stephen McKenzie

Enos Randle :

Isaac Smith Williams

Jenkin Williams

Note: All were in the same company and part, if not all, are related to Samuel Parker in some way TALES OF BLACK HAWK, THE RED HEAD AND MISSOURI RANGERS, by Robert E. Parkin, page: 4

1814 --- COL RUSSELL'S REGIMENT

Name: Samuel Parke Rank: Private Regiment: Col. William Russell’s Regiment Of Mounted Rangers Enlisted: One year for service on the frontiers of Missouri and Illinois. Mustered: The Cape Girardeau Company was completed and mustered into service. Date: July 2, 1814 Duty: Engaged in guarding the frontiers when the battle of the ”SINK HOLE” occurred. Location: This battle was fought in what is now Lincoln County, Missouri, not far from Cape au Grus. Researcher: Richard Parker Source Information: HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, Goodspeed, pages: 490-495.

Sink Hole Incident

1814 --- SINK HOLE INCIDENT ----- Samuel Parker, private, Cape Girardeau County Company commanded by Colonel William Russell.The most famous of those expeditions was made in 1814 by a company of mounted rangers raised by Peter Craig of Cape Girardeau County. Many of the members of the company had served under Captain Ramsey in 1813; they were now enlisted for a period of one year to serve on the frontiers of Missouri and Illinois, and they became part of a regiment commanded by Colonel William Russell. This company did very much service during these Indian troubles, and fought the famous battle of the Sink Hole. There were sixteen officers and ninety-one privates of which Samuel K. Parker was one. After the company was organized and mustered into service, it was sent to north Missouri and while there fought the battle of Sink Hole. This was in Lincoln County, not far from Cape au Gris. The account here given of this battle was written by Colonel John Shaw of the Wisconsin Historical Society: “Captain Peter Craig commanded at Fort Howard. About noon, five of the men went out of the fort to Byrne’s deserted house on the buff, about one-fourth of a mile below the fort, to bring in a grindstone. In consequence of back water from the Mississippi, they went in a canoe and on their return were fired on by a party supposed to be fifty Indians, who were under shelter of some brush that grew along at the foot of the buff near Byrne’s house and about fifteen rods distant from the canoe at that time. Three of the whites were killed and one mortally wounded and as the water was shallow, the Indians ran out and tomahawked their victims. The people of the fort ran out and fired on the Indians across the back water, a few inches deep, while another party of about twenty-five ran to the right of the water with a view of intercepting the Indians, who seemed to be making toward the buff or high plain west and north of the fort. The part of twenty-five and Captain Craig’s soon united. On the buff was the cultivated field and deserted residence of Benjamin Allen. The field was about forty rods across, beyond which was pretty thick timber. Here the Indians made a stand and here the fight began. Both parties fired, and as the fight waxed warm, the Indians slowly retired as the whites advanced. After the fight had been going on perhaps some ten minutes, the whites were reinforced by Captain David Musick, of Cape au Gris with about twenty men. He had been on a scout toward the head of Cuiver River and had returned within about one-half mile of the fort and about one and a half miles of the scene of the conflict and had stopped with his men to grazed their horses, who, hearing the firing, they instantly remounted and dashed toward the place of battle. Dismounting in the edge of the timber on the buff, and hitching their horses, they rushed through a part of the Indian line and shortly after, the enemy fled, a part bearing to the right of the sink hole toward Bob’s Creek, but the most of them taking refuge in the sink hole, which was close by where the main fighting had taken place. About the time the Indians were retreating, Captain Craig exposed himself about four feet beyond his tree and was shot through the body and fell dead. James Putney was killed before Captain Craig, and perhaps one or two others. Before the Indians retired to the sink hole, the fighting had become animated; the loading was done quickly and shots rapidly exchanged and when one of our party was killed or wounded, it was announced aloud. The sink hole was about sixty feet in length and from twelve to fifteen feet in width and ten or twelve feet deep. Near the bottom, on the southeast side, was a shelving rock, under which perhaps some fifty or sixty persons might have sheltered themselves. At the northeast end of the sink hole, the decent was quite gradual, the other end much more abrupt and the south east side almost perpendicular and the other side about like the steep roof of a house. On the southeast side, the Indians, as a farther protection in case the whites should rush up, dug under the shelving rock with their knives. On the sides and in the bottom of the sink hole were some brushes, which also served as something of a screen for the Indians. Captain Musick and his men took part on the northeast side of the sink hole and others occupied other positions surrounding the enemy. As the trees approached close to the sink hole, these served in part to protect our party. Men who had families at the fort gradually went there, not knowing but a large body of Indians might seize the favorable occasion to attack the fort while the men were mostly away, engaged in the exciting contest. The Indians in the sink hole had a drum made of a skin stretched over the section of a hollow tree, on which they beat quite constantly and some Indians would shake a rattle called She-shuqui, probably a dried bladder with pebbles within and even for a moment would venture to thrust his head in view with his hand elevated, shaking his rattle and calling out “Peash! Peash!” which was understood to be a sort of defiance, or as Blackhawk, who was one of the party says in his account of that affair, a kind of bravado to come fight them in the sink hole. When the Indians would creep up and shoot over the rim of the sink hole, they would instantly disappear and while they sometimes fired effectual shots, they in turn became occasionally the victims. From 4 o’clock P. M. the firing was incessant, our men generally reserving their fire until an Indian would show his head and all of us were studying how we could more effectually attack and dislodge the enemy. At length Lieutenant Spears suggested that a pair of cart wheels, axle and tongue, which were seen at Allen’s place, be obtained and a moving battery constructed. The idea was entertained favorably and an hour or more was consumed in its construction. Some oak floor puncheons from seven to eight feet in length were made fast to an axle in a upright position and port holes made through them. Finally the battery was ready for trail and was sufficiently large to protect some half dozen or more men. It was moved forward slowly and seemed to attract the particular attention of the Indians, who had evidently heard the knocking and pounding connected with its manufacture and who now frequently popped up their heads to make commentary discoveries and it was at length moved up within less then ten paces of the brink of the sink hole on the southeast side. The upright plank did not reach to the ground within some eighteen inches, the men calculation to shoot beneath the lower end at the Indians, but the Indians from their position had decided the advantage of this neglected aperture, for the Indians, shooting beneath the battery at an upward angle would get shoots at the whites before the rangers could seen them. The Indians also watched the port holes and directed some of their shots at them. Lieutenant Spears was shot dead in the head and his death was much lamented, as he had proven himself an intrepid officer. John Paterson was wounded in the thigh, and some others were also wounded behind the battery. Having failed in its design, the battery was abandoned after sun down. Our hope all along had been that the Indians would emerge from their convert and attempt to retreat to where we supposed their canoes were left, some three or four miles distant, which case, we were firmly determined to rush upon them and endeavor to cut them off totally. The men generally evinced the greatest bravery during the whole engagement. Night was now coming on and the reports of a half a dozen guns in the direction of the fort by a few Indians, who rushed out of the woods skirting Bob’s Creek not more than forty rods from the north end of the fort, was heard. This movement on the part of the few Indians who had escaped when the others took refuge in the sink hole was evidently designed to divert the attention of the whites and alarm them for the safety of the fort, and thus effectually relieve the Indians from the sink hole. This was the result, for Captain Musick and men retired to the fort, carrying the dead and wounded and made every preparation to repel a night attack. The men at the fort were mostly up all night, ready for resistance if necessary. There was no physician at the fort and much effort was made to set some broken bones. There was a well in the fort and provisions and ammunition to sustain a pretty formidable attack. The women were greatly alarmed pressing their infants to their breasts, fearing they might not be permitted to behold another morning’s light, but night passed away without seeing or hearing an Indian. The next morning a party went to the sink hole and found the Indians gone. They had carried off their dead and wounded except five dead bodies left on the northwest side. From all signs it appeared some thirty or forty of them were killed or wounded. Lieutenant Gray reported eight of our party killed, one missing and five wounded. The dead were buried near the fort and a man was sent to St. Charles for medical assistance. Lieutenant Gray assumed command. Those who were killed at this battle were Captain Craig, Lieutenant Spears, Alexander Giboney, James Putney, Antoine Pelkey, Hubbard Taylor and Francois Lemmey. John Patterson, Benjamin Hale and Abraham Letts were wounded. The company was soon mustered out and the men to their homes. ----- HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, Goodspeed Publishing Company, pages: 171-174, researched by Richard Parker, great great grandson.

This is a follow up on the Battle of the Sink Hole listing all the men under the command of Captain Peter Craig. ----- Craig’s Company May 1814-June 1815 ----- Capt. Peter Craig - Lt. Wilson Able - Lt. Drakeford Gray - Lt. Edward Spear - Ensign John Giles - Sgt. William Blakeney - Sgt. Daniel Harklerood- Sgt. William Fugate - Sgt. Enos Randol - Sgt. John Rodney - Corp. Jeremiah Able - Corp. Abraham Letts - Corp. William McCarty - Corp. Thomas S. Rodney - Corp. Charles Sexton - Corp. Perry W. Wheat. Privates: John Able - James Atkinson - Tessant Barkums - Francis Barribeau - Peter Barribeau - Thomas Boyce - Jonathan Brickey - James Scott Brown - John Brown - George P. Bush - William B. Bush - Stephen Byrd - John Cameron - Charles Cardinal - Burrel Castley - Jesse Cochran - John Cooper - A lexander Cotie - Baptiste Cotie - William Crump - Elias Davis - Ludwell Davis - John Dotson - Hugh Dowlin - Able Galland- Alexander Giboney, Jr. - Isaac Georgy - Louis Guliah - Benjamin Haile - Charles Hamilton - James Hamilton - Frederick Hector - Louis Heneaux -Abijah Highsmith - John Hodge - John Holcomb- John Houk - Baptiste Janis - Baptiste Janis, Jr. - Stephen Jarbveaux - Jehoida Jeffrey-Andrew Johnson - William King - Batiste Labeaux - Baptiste Lacroy - Francois Lammey - Joseph Lammey - John Langston -Charles Loyd - William Martin - James Massey - Nathan McCarty - Stephen McKinzie - Mark Murphy - Benjamin Ogle - John Patterson - SAMUEL PARKER - Antoine Pelkey - Samuel Phillips - James Puntey - Tessant Reeves - John Roach - Robert Robertson - Alexander Scott-John Shepherd - Joshua Simpson - Joseph Sirwards - Edward Stephenson - Hubbard Tayon - Solomon Thorn - John D. Upham-Pascal Valle - John Vance - George Van Leer - Louis Vanure - William Wathen - John Watkin - Frederick Webber - William Wells-John Wiggs - Michael Wigo - Isaac Smith Williams - Jenkin Williams - David Wilt - George Wilt - Levi Wolverton. ----- HISTORY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI, Goodspeed Publishing Company, pages: 490-491 AND TALES OF BLACKHAWK, THE RED HEAD AND THE MISSOURI RANGERS, by Robert E. Parkin, page: 4.

Source Information: The Battle of the Sinkhole was part of the War of 1812 although it occurred 3 months after the war officially ended in February 1815 when the Treaty of Ghent of 24 December 1814 took effect after ratification by both governments. The Cape Girardeau Company in which Samuel K Parker was serving a one-year enlistment had been raised on 2 July 1814. History accounts of the War of 1812 that I studied (many years ago now, I fear) indicated that some Indians had not heard of the end of the war and had continued fighting, including the Sauk Indians led by Black Hawk. A Wikipedia stub states, "According to Robert McDouall, the British commander in the area, the Sauk had not received official word from the British that the Treaty of Ghent had ended the war with the U.S." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sink_Hole) An article on HistoryNet describes the Battle of the Sink Hole as "the last action linked to the War of 1812". (https://www.historynet.com/black-hawk-sinkhole/) It's interesting to note that the Battle of New Orleans on 8 January 1815 also technically took place two weeks after the Treaty of Ghent, although before it was ratified.

Written and provided by Ray Sarlin on 28 May 2023

Church Records

1819 --- Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri -- July 10, 1919 --- Samuel K. Parker admitted to Bethel Baptist Church by expressing his faith in Jesus Christ, July 10, 1819, Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. --- ST. LOUIS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY VOL. XIV, NO. 4 1981, page: 131.

1822 --- Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri --- January 12, 1822 --- To remedy this, four committees were formed to study the problem of disorderly of fellow members and report back to the church (Bethel Baptist) -- On these committees were Thomas P. Green, S. K. Parker, J. Dougherty, Jas. Massey, William Hitt W. Avernthie, Abraham Randol, simon Poe, Benjamin Hitt, , Jas. Holcombe, Robet Looney, Benj. thompson, James Randol, John Randol, Thomas English, John shephard, Thomas Bull, William Surrell, E. Hill, H. C Davis and Jno Dowty --- OLD BOLLINGER VOL. 3, compiled by Cletis Ellinghouse, page: 33.

1822 --- One is given to believe these new rules did not set well with many of the members (Bethel Baptist Church) and four months later, On May 11, 1822, some of the church's stalwart leaders asked for letters of dissmissal to form the Herbon Church. These members were Polly Green, Abraham Randol, Rebecca Randol, Mary Randol, Simeon Poe, James Randol, Nancy Randol, Samuel K. Parker, Susannah Williams, Matilda Williams, Benjamin Hitt and Sarah Hitt ----- OLD BOLLINGER VOL. 3, compiled by Cletis Ellinghouse, page: 34 ----- OLD BETHEL CHURCH 1806-1867, by T. H. Jenkins, pages: 20.

1822 -- Herbon Church - This, too, is a daughter of Bethel Church, having been organized in May 1822. On the eleventh of that month Bethel Church dismissed the following members for that purpose: Polly Green, Abraham Randal, Rebekah Randal, Mary Randal, Simon Poe, James Randal, Nancy Randal, Samuel K. Parker, Elizabeth McMiller (McMillen), Elizabeth Parker, Rebekah Poe, James Holcomb, Francis Holcomb, Susanna Williams, Matilda Williams, Benjamin Hitt and Sarah Hitt. Also Judge Thomas Juden, then late of Baltimore, untied in the organization of the church. The Herbon Church is located some four or five miles northwest from Cape Girardeau and was organized by Thomas P. Green, assisted by Thomas Juden. The church in 1979 was without a pastor and numbered only 13 members. For 1881 no statistics are given”. ----- A HISTORY OF THE BAPTIST IN MISSOURI, by R. S. Duncan, page: 287

Heirs

1817 --SAMUEL PARKER'S HEIRS

Missouri Territory

County Of New Madrid

Page: 74

Be it remember that on the 28th day of April 1817, personally came before me. Richard H. Waters, Clerk of the Circuit Court, in and for the County of New Madrid, Smith Brown, one of the subscribing witnesses to the within instrument, in writing and being duly sworn, saith that he was present and saw the within named: Thomas Bull , Sary Bull, John L. Parker, Samuel K. Parker, Abraham Randol, Jeremiah Masterson, David Holley and Elizabeth McMillin, sign, seal, and deliver and heard them acknowledge the within deed to be their act and deed, hands and seals for the use and purposes herein expressed and that himself and Thomas Stewart subscribed the same as witnesses in presence of each other and in the presence of the said grantors. In Testimony whereof, there being no Judicial Seal yet procured to the said court.

I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my own private seal the day and day above written.

Signed: Richard H. Waters, Clerk

Researcher: Richard Parker

Source: County Court House, New Madrid County, Missouri.

Estate Of Samuel K. PARKER

1844 --- ESTATE

Name: Samuel K. Parker

Estate Number: Three

Date: January 26, 1844

Washington County Court, House, Illinois

I, Benjamin M. Cox, do solemnly swear that I will and trusty administer all and singular the and chattels, rights, credits and affects of Samuel K. Parker, deceased, and pay all just claims and chargers against his estate so far as his goods and chattels shall thereunto extend and the law charges me and that I will do and perform all other sets required of me by law to the best of my knowledge and abilities, so help me God.

Signed: Benjamin M. Cox Sworn and subscribed before Me this 6th day of January 1844 --- Z. H. Vernon, probate Justice.

Researcher: Richard Parker

Source of information; WASHINGTON COUNTY, ILLINOIS COURT HOUSE PROBATES RECORDS, Nashville, Washington County, Illinois

1844 --- BILL OF SALES

Appraisement Bill

Date: January 26, 1844

Washington County Court House, Illinois.

Appraisement Bill of the goods, chattels and personal property of Samuel K. Parker, deceased

Appraised by Wm. M. Allen, S. J. Cose, and Benjamin Morgan

Date: 26th day of January AD 1844

Two, two years steers --- 10.00

One red cow --- 6.00

One heifer --- 5.00

Sorrel male and colt --- 30.00

One ¼ of one wheat ton --- 2.00 -- 19 --- 19.00

Two stacks of hay --- 10.00

One large plow --- 3.00

One small plow --- 2.50

One hundred and seventy-five bushels of corn --- 35.00

One lot of old irons --- 1.50

One log chain --- 1.00

One grindstone --- 7.50

One log home---- 45.00

Total: $177.50

We, Wm. M. Allen, S. J. Cose and Benjamin Morgan, appraisers of the personal property of Samuel K. Parker, deceased, do certify that the written inventory as Appraisement Bill is a true statement of all the personal property presented to us by the administer of said estate. Given under our hands this 26rh day of January AD 1844.

Researcher: Richard Parker

Source Information: WASHINGTON COUNTY, ILLINOIS COURT HOUSE PTOBATES RECORDS, Nashville, Washington County, Illinois.

Cemetery

1843 --- FIND A GRAVE INDEX 1600'S-CURRENT

Name: Samuel K. Parker

Birth Date: 1795

Birth Place: New Madrid County, Missouri, United States of America

Death Date: 1843

Death Place: Washington County, Illinois, United States of America

Cemetery: Parker Family Cemetery

Burial or Cremation Place: Okawville, Washington County, Illinois, United States of America

Has Bio?: Yes

Mother: Sarah Bull

Spouse: Elizabeth Parker

Children: Lydia L. Mitchell -- Harvey K. Parker -- Elizabeth Boggess

URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55137233/samuel-k.-parker

Researcher: Richard Parker

Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. ---Original data: Find a Grave. Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.

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