Grave/headstone at Millport Cemetery reads: James Parks, born Feb. 18, 1803, died Mar. 8, 1864, Millie Parks, born Feb. 28, 1801, died Sept. 11, 1879. [1]
Parents' grave/headstone reads: "In Memory of Ephraim Bennett, a Revolutionary soldier and Christian gentleman, born Rhode Island 1762, died Dix, NY, 1843, his wife Hannah Bentley, born Rhode Island 1765, died Tioga, PA 1839, their children Samuel, Thomas, Abner, Greene, Harry, Brant, Charles, Susanna Coryell, Peggy Curtis, Elizabeth Mills, Polly, Sally McClure, Milly Parks. Erected by his grandson S. B. Bennett" [2]
"His (Ephraim's) children were:
"Samuel, born Nov. 27, 1781; married Sally Van Gorder. Thomas Strait, born Aug. 2, 1783. Susannah, born Sept. 11, 1785; married David Coryell. Peggy, born Dec. 15, 1787; married (1) Brant Catlin. (2) Charles Curtis. Elizabeth, born Nov. 4, 1789; married Thomas Mills. Polly, born Dec. 15, 1791; died 1794. Abner Knox, born Jan. 11, 1793; married Sarah Lattin. Sally, born Nov. 27, 1795; married William McClure. Green Bently (6), born Nov. 30, 1797; married (1) Cynthia McClure. Married (2) Anna Beers Tyler. Milly, born Feb. 28, 1801; married James Parks. Harry, born Sept. 7, 1802; married Mary McClure. Brant, born Aug. 28, 1805; died April 20, 1807. Charles M., born May 11, 1807; married Louisa Canfield." " [3]
UNCONFIRMED information: "MILLY BENNETT, daughter of EPHRAIM BENNETT II and HANNAH BENTLEY, was born February 28, 1801. She married JAMES PARKS. From the book "The Bennett, Bently and Beers Families" by S. B. Bennett [1899], "Milly with her husband and family went to Ohio, but returning lived at Millport, N. Y. She passed away at the house of her son-in-law, Hon. G. M. Beard."
The children of MILLY BENNETT and JAMES PARKS are: EMILY PARKS, m. GEORGE IDE. BANAJAH PARKS, m. LORINDA DENSON. AMANDA PARKS, m. DAVID CRAMER. CHARLES PARKS, m. ELIZABETH THOMPSON. ELIZABETH PARKS, m. JOSIAH BOTSFORD. CYNTHIA PARKS, m. (DR.) GEORGE M. BEARD." [4]
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