Jesse P. Parker was born about 1802 to David Parker and Claramond (Clara, Clary) Mangum.[1][2]
He married Mary Ann Armstrong in 1829 in Orange County, North Carolina.[3][4] By 1840, they had four children.[5]
Jesse and his brothers and cousins appear throughout the extensive estate papers of his brother David Parker Jr. [6]
Some time in the 1840s, Jesse and family removed to Martin County, where he entered a partnership with Dr. Samuel Cooper Benjamin to build and operate a sawmill on the Roanoke at Hamilton.[7]
In 1850, he and his three children appear in the Martin County Census.[8] Curiously, Mary Ann is listed in the household next door to Jesse's -- that of Perry and Harriet Pierce (Price) Bazemore.
Whether this was the census taker's error or Jesse and Mary Ann were living separately is unclear, but Mary is found living next to her son's and daughter's families and listed as a widow in the 1860 census.[9]
A law suit over Jesse's estate was commenced as early as November 1856. It began as Harrison Parker [bro. of Jesse], agent of Joseph Parker [son of Jesse], executor of Jesse P. Parker, dec'd, vs. John C. Sweany in trespass, seeking $4,000 in damages. Harrison Parker was later made a defendant. Jesse's last will nominating Joseph Parker as his executor is not found, nor is the proximal cause of the suit or its outcome. Perhaps the will landed in the files of an appeal?[10]
Children of Jesse P. and Mary Ann (Armstrong) Parker:[8]
Joseph G. A. Parker, b. abt. 1832
David H. Parker, b. abt. 1834
Jane Fielder Parker, b. 12 December 1835
Sources
↑ David Parker, last will and testament, 24 August 1844, proved August term 1850. "North Carolina Probate Records, 1735-1970," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/DGS-004770553_00507?cc=1867501 : accessed 19 April 2016), Orange > Wills, 1838-1851, Vol. F > image 272 of 568; county courthouses, North Carolina.
↑ We can be assured that Jesse is the same mentioned in David Parker's will because
Archibald Sherrod married Jane F. Parker, daughter of Jesse, who is described as a cousin of James Horner -- making David Parker and Claramond Mangum the grandparents of both Jane F. Parker and James Horner. Connor, R D. W, William K. Boyd, and Joseph G. R. Hamilton. History of North Carolina. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co, 1919. Internet resource; https://archive.org/stream/historyofnorthca05#page/n689/mode/2up.
↑ "North Carolina, Marriages, 1759-1979," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8BT-5HW : accessed 6 April 2015), Jesse P. Parker and Mary Ann Armstrong, 15 Sep 1829; citing Orange,North Carolina, reference ; FHL microfilm 6,330,314.
↑ "United States Census, 1830," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHP7-RZM : accessed 6 April 2015), Jesse P Parker, North District, Orange, North Carolina; citing p. 318, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 123; FHL microfilm 18,089.
↑ "United States Census, 1840," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHYJ-SF5 : accessed 6 April 2015), Jesse Parker, Northern Division, Orange, North Carolina; citing p. 204, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 367; FHL microfilm 18,096.
↑ Manning, Francis M.; Booker, W.H. Martin County History.
Williamston, N.C.: Enterprise Publishing Company, 1979, page 2:173, citing Bryant Bennett Papers.
↑ 8.08.1 "United States Census, 1850," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4B8-ZXN : accessed 6 April 2015), Jesse P Parker, Martin county, Martin, North Carolina, United States; citing family 470, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
↑ "United States Census, 1860," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD64-THG : accessed 6 April 2015), Mary Parker, District No. 9, Martin, North Carolina, United States; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing p. 140, household ID 1, NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 803,905.
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Is he the J.P. Parker in the gigantic estate files of David Parker? "North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-35515-19246-32?cc=1911121 : accessed 10 June 2016), Orange County > P > Parker, David, Jr. (1841) > image 7 of 484; State Archives, Raleigh.
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She is supposedly cousin to James Horner
https://books.google.com/books?id=zEQ4AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA393&ots=YLpLRu8Y8H&dq=c.h.%20baker%20archibald%20sherrod&pg=PA393#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://ncpedia.org/biography/horner-james-hunter
https://web.archive.org/web/20151112213436/http://www.larkcom.us:80/ancestry/history/1053.cfm
Her grandfather James Watson?
Was Rosanna, his wife, a Horner?
http://www.larkcom.us/ancestry/history/1053.cfm