Mary Elizabeth Ford Parsons

Birth: 5 Nov 1848
Virginia, USA
Death: 28 Apr 1921 (aged 72)
Holland, Faulkner County, Arkansas, USA
Burial: Oakland Cemetery

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Mary Elizabeth Ford Parsons was the daughter of James and Amelia Yates Ford. She first married William David Killough, and, following his death in 1887, she married Elisha Edward Parsons.

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Parents

James Ford

1813–1895
Amelia Yates Ford

1814–1851

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William David Killough

1843–1887 (m. 1866)
Elisha Edward Parsons

1856–1934 (m. 1889)

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Infant Son Ford

1837–1837
Infant Daughter Ford

1837–1837
William Ford

1838–1866
Obadiah Ford

1840–1857
Emeline Ford

1842–1857
Martha Jane Ford Lavender

1844–1870
Melvina Ford

1846–1855
Matilda Ford

1851–1851

Children

Hannah Elizabeth Killough Garrett

1867–1943
James Marshall Killough

1870–1959
Annie Caroline Killough Dent

1873–1961
Sophia S. Killough

1876 – unknown
Toney S. Killough

1879–1887
John "Jack" Killough

1881–1881
Minnie Ellen Killough Smith

1881–1935
Miner Adolphus Killough

1884–1957
William Edward "Ed" Parsons

1891–1973
Infant Killough

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Arkansas, Birth Certificates, 1914-1922
Arkansas, Death Certificates, 1914-1969
Arkansas, U.S., County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
1900 United States Federal Census
1910 United States Federal Census

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This is the E. E. Parsons family lot at Oakland, looking south. Closest to the camera is a marker in memory of James Ford, founder of Oakland United Methodist Church. Next in line is his daughter and son-in-law, Elisha E. and Mary E. (Ford) Parsons; Melba E. Parsons Collier (only daughter of William E. and Nettie); Elisha and Mary's only child William E. Parsons and his wife Nettie Smith; William E. and Nettie's only son Vervian H. E. Parsons and his wife Dora Jackson; Vervian and Dora's only child Charles E. Parsons and his wife Winifred C. Phayer; and Charles E. and Winifred's only children Charles D. and John V. Parsons. There are monuments to 6 generations in this lot. A 5 generation pedigree showing the ancestry of Charles D. and John V. Parsons is engraved on the back of their marker.

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Mary is memorialized as part of a 5 generation pedigree engraved on the reverse of her great-great grandsons' marker placed in Oakland Cemetery, Holland, Faulkner County, Arkansas.

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obit written by her daughter Hannah E. Garrett, from the Log Cabin Democrat, Conway, Arkansas, 13 May 1921

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Mary Elizabeth Ford Parsons

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James Ford

Amelia Yates Ford

William David Killough

Elisha Edward Parsons

Infant Son Ford

Infant Daughter Ford

William Ford

Obadiah Ford

Emeline Ford

Martha Jane Ford Lavender

Melvina Ford

Matilda Ford

Hannah Elizabeth Killough Garrett

James Marshall Killough

Annie Caroline Killough Dent

Sophia S. Killough

Toney S. Killough

John "Jack" Killough

Minnie Ellen Killough Smith

Miner Adolphus Killough

William Edward "Ed" Parsons

Infant Killough

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