Born in Edgecombe County, Province of North Carolina
Ancestors 
Daughter of Simon Parker Sr.
and Judith (Knight) Foreman
Sister of
Judith Parker, Winifred (Parker) Cross, Sarah (Parker) Daniel, Simon Parker Jr., Robert S. Parker and Ruth (Parker) Dodson
Wife of
Arthur Jones
— married
before 1779 in Orangeburg, Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States
Descendants 
Mother of
Tignal Jones
Died
at about age 84
in Franklin, Georgia, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 3 Feb 2021
This page has been accessed 202 times.
Biography
Charity was born in 1754. She was the daughter of Simon Parker and Judah Knight. She passed away in 1838. [1]
Judah Parker, Sarah Parker, Winnifred Parker and Charity Parker were four orphaned children of Simon Parker. Benjamin Foreman was the guardian of these four orphaned children from 1760 to 1769. This same Charity Parker who married Arthur Jones lived in Halifax North Carolina while her deceased brother Estate was in Franklin Georgia. Charity Parker Jones sent her son Tignal Jones down to Franklin, Georgia to check on her brother Estate, either James or William Parker.
Other Parker mentioned in the Halifax North Carolina record are James Parker, William Parker, Francis Parker, and Jethro Parker. Areas for all people mentioned in the Halifax Record include Smith, Tennessee, York, South Carolina, Burke, Georgia, Hancock, Georgia, Nash, North Carolina, Montgomery, North Carolina, Green, Georgia, and Chatham, North Carolina.
Sources
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 22 June 2021), memorial page for Charity Parker Jones (1754–1838), Find A Grave: Memorial #70737636, citing Bellamy-Brawner-Jones Cemetery, Plainview, Franklin County, Georgia, USA; maintained by Howard Jones (contributor 46882350).
See also:
- Parker, Simon. Edgecombe County. December 31 1758. March Court, 1759. Sons: Francis, Simon, William, Robert (to each is devised a plantation), James. Daughters: Judah, Sarah, Winne, Charitie and Ruth Parker. Wife: Judith. Executors: Francis Parker (brother) and James Knight (brother-in-law). Witnesses: Charles Daniell, Girrard Wall, Mary Cullender. Clerk of the Court: Jos. Montfort. (Grimes, J. Bryan, Secty. of State (1910) Abstract of North Carolina Wills, E. M. Uzzell & Co., Raleigh., p. 279)
Is Charity your ancestor? Please don't go away!
Login to collaborate or comment, or
contact
the profile manager, or
ask our community of genealogists a question.
Login to collaborate or comment, or contact
the profile manager, or ask our community of genealogists a question.
Sponsored Search by Ancestry.com
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Charity by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Charity:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Charity by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Charity:
-
~0.78%
~3.12%
Emily Gillespie 
:
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch emmline [compare], Ancestry member emm_gillespie
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Comments
Leave a message for others who see this profile.
There are no comments yet.
Login to post a comment.
Featured Female Poet connections: Charity is 12 degrees from Anne Bradstreet, 21 degrees from Ruth Niland, 26 degrees from Karin Boye, 24 degrees from 照 松平, 15 degrees from Anne Barnard, 33 degrees from Lola Rodríguez de Tió, 24 degrees from Christina Rossetti, 14 degrees from Emily Dickinson, 25 degrees from Nikki Giovanni, 20 degrees from Isabella Crawford, 20 degrees from Mary Gilmore and 16 degrees from Elizabeth MacDonald on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.