Ollie E. (Parker) Musick (1880 - 1960)

Born 30 Aug 1880 in Tennessee, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Bradley M. Musick — married 10 Feb 1908 in Edmonson County, Kentucky

Descendants

Died 5 Dec 1960 at age 80 in Edmonson County, Kentucky, USA

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Biography

Miss Ollie

Ollie Parker was born in 1880 to Balaam Parker and Margaret Meredith, and passed away in 1960.

Ollie married Bradley M. Musick in 1908 after his second wife had died, leaving him with three small children. Miss Ollie (as she was known to them) help raise the three children to adulthood, and assisted her husband with the operation of his successful general store.

When her stepchildren were admitted to Western State Normal School (a noted teacher's college in Bowling Green, Kentucky), she moved with them to a rented house nearby.

While living in Bowling Green, Ollie and her stepson Grant Musick supplemented their family income by bootlegging liquor during Prohibition.

Ad for coffins from Miss Ollie's store.

After her husband died in 1934, Miss Ollie opened her own small general store in Bee Spring, Kentucky, and later in South, Kentucky.

She also took in children to live with her in later life, including a young girl Flo and Jean Tarrence, (daughter of Thomas W. Tarrence and Dora Whobrey.)

She is buried in Bee Spring Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Bee Spring, Edmonson County, Kentucky, not far from her husband, Brad Musick.

Sources

• Marriage Record found in Edmonson County, Kentucky, Office of the County Court Clerk
• Edmonson County Marriage Index (at KyGenWeb)
• Death Certificate
• Ky Vital Statistics - Death Index
• Find A Grave: Memorial #148763302 with photo of tombstone)