Martha Ann (Parker) Allen (1854 - 1923)

Born 9 Jul 1854 in Arkansas, United States

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Died 1 Nov 1923 at age 69 in Logan, Arkansas, United States

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Biography

Martha A. was born July 9, 1854, according to the Parker family bible entries. She was the second child of Meredith W. and Jemima (Jones) Parker. The fifteen-year-old Martha M.A. Parker appears in the 1870 living with her parents and siblings. All records after that census refer to her as Annie.

"Family research" papers written by one of Anna Wood, Byron Wood's daughter provided the following information for our Parker ancestors: Tim Allen married Annie Parker, daughter of Meredith Parker and Jemima (Jones) Parker. Annie was born in 1854 and died in 1923 at the age of 69. Their home was the one Lynn and Hazel Wood lived in on top the hill at New Blaine Arkansas. It was part of the same land which belonged to Annie's parents but their house was further back along Little Shoal Creek where Meredith had a water mill. Tim had a warranty Deed to the land around the hill. When he died he willed this land to Byron Wood because Byron had helped him with money when he was having a hard time and Byron paid the taxes on the property when Tim was about to lose the place. Byron left the area and later sold the property to his brother Lynn Wood for $100, with the understanding that their mother Virgie Allen Wood could always have a home there.

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See also:

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M36K-5ZF : accessed 9 April 2018), Virgie Allen in household of T A Allen, Shoal Creek Township, Logan, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 60, sheet 5B, family 54, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,066.

• The Goodspeed Historical and Biographical Memoirs of Western Arkansas (Logan County) on page 369 has an 1/2 page article on M.W. Parker, written in 1891. This article lists all of M.W. Parker's seven children as: Mary J. , Annie, Joshua, William, Jesse, Olive, and Bell. It proudly states that all his children are living (in 1891). Note the article doesn't mention a child named Martha (M.A.) but instead uses the name Annie. This article was written well before either Annie Allen or M.W. Parker died and M.W. would have been interviewed for the article.

• A copy of Meredith W. Parker's family bible was in the possession of Lynn Wood.... this copy provided M.A. Parker's birth date as July 9, 1954.

• "Family records" written by Joseph and Mary Ann's gg grandaugher Anna (Wood) Holsti , (a daughter of Byron Wood); these notes included interviews with Girtie, Virgie and Hazel Wood. Documentation probably began in the 1970s. https://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/2/2f/Allen-16863.pdf, https://www.wikitree.com/photo/pdf/Parker-15647-4 and https://www.wikitree.com/photo/pdf/Wood-19195-3

• Find A Grave: Memorial #63496076 in Elizabeth Hall Cemetery, Logan County, Arkansas

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNC4-91V : 28 May 2021), Martha M A Parker in entry for M W Parker, 1870.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKVZ-5MB : accessed 14 January 2023), Anna Allen in household of Timothy Allen, Shoal Creek, Logan, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 56, sheet 6B, family 98, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 56; FHL microfilm 1,374,069.

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDXP-Q36 : 19 July 2022), Annie Allen in entry for Gem A Allen, 1920.