Rev. Roswell Parker was born July 3, 1791, in Plainfield, Connecticut, and died March 10, 1878, in Manhattan, Kansas, his widow still surviving. July 14, 1873, the golden wedding of this veteran was celebrated in at Adams, Hillsdale County, Michigan, in the church that he had founded, his children and grandchildren from Kansas and Iowa being present. He was, in the true acceptance of the term, a successful minister, the people always "hearing him gladly." He preached over five thousand sermons, baptized over seven hundred converts, thirteen of whom entered the ministry, and rounded out a life of great activity with a painless transit from his labors on earth to the greater joy beyond. The other surviving children are Roswell D. Parker, pastor of the Congregational church of Manhattan, Kansas, and Mrs. Mary A. Burch (b. 1837) of Creston, Union County, Iowa.
In 1836, Rev. Roswell Parker, with his family, moved from western New York and settle in North Adams, Hillside County, Michigan, where he lived on the same farm forty years. Southern Michigan at that time was almost an unbroken wilderness, and the family passed through all those experiences incident to pioneer life. The unerring rifle at first supplied the family with an abundance of game, while the forests gradually melted away before the ax until cultivated fields brought forth abundant harvests.
In 1836, Rev. Roswell Parker, with his family, moved from western New York and settle in North Adams, Hillside County, Michigan, where he lived on the same farm forty years. Southern Michigan at that time was almost an unbroken wilderness, and the family passed through all those experiences incident to pioneer life. The unerring rifle at first supplied the family with an abundance of game, while the forests gradually melted away before the ax until cultivated fields brought forth abundant harvests.
Rev. Roswell Parker was born July 3, 1791, in Plainfield, Connecticut, and died March 10, 1878, in Manhattan, Kansas, his widow still surviving. July 14, 1873, the golden wedding of this veteran was celebrated in at Adams, Hillsdale County, Michigan, in the church that he had founded, his children and grandchildren from Kansas and Iowa being present. He was, in the true acceptance of the term, a successful minister, the people always "hearing him gladly." He preached over five thousand sermons, baptized over seven hundred converts, thirteen of whom entered the ministry, and rounded out a life of great activity with a painless transit from his labors on earth to the greater joy beyond. The other surviving children are Roswell D. Parker, pastor of the Congregational church of Manhattan, Kansas, and Mrs. Mary A. Burch (b. 1837) of Creston, Union County, Iowa.
In 1836, Rev. Roswell Parker, with his family, moved from western New York and settle in North Adams, Hillside County, Michigan, where he lived on the same farm forty years. Southern Michigan at that time was almost an unbroken wilderness, and the family passed through all those experiences incident to pioneer life. The unerring rifle at first supplied the family with an abundance of game, while the forests gradually melted away before the ax until cultivated fields brought forth abundant harvests.
In 1836, Rev. Roswell Parker, with his family, moved from western New York and settle in North Adams, Hillside County, Michigan, where he lived on the same farm forty years. Southern Michigan at that time was almost an unbroken wilderness, and the family passed through all those experiences incident to pioneer life. The unerring rifle at first supplied the family with an abundance of game, while the forests gradually melted away before the ax until cultivated fields brought forth abundant harvests.
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