Thomas Sylvester Parsons (1837-1914)

Thomas Sylvester Parsons

Birth

9 Mar 1837

Louisiana, USA

Death

16 Apr 1914 (aged 77)

Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA

Burial

Hopland Cemetery

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Thomas was the son of Clement Parsons III & Elizabeth Blandford. He married (1) Elizabeth Deborah Calhoun on 16 April in Missouri and they had 5 children. Thomas Henry died young in California. The other four who lived to adulthood were Robert Francis, John Clement, George William and Mary Elizabeth. The family moved to Hopland, Mendocino, California about 1869 where Mary Elizabeth was born. Thomas lost his wife, Elizabeth when she was 34 years. He married (2) Cynthia A. Cast in 1877 and they had 3 daughters-Minnie Catherine, Sarah Alice, and Lucinda Josephine. Sarah died young.

Obit:
17 April 1914 - The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa
THOMAS PARSONS ENTERS HIS REST
A well know and much respected man answers the final summons.
Death called for Thomas S. Parsons after a long illness on Thursday morning. Fof five months, Mr. Parsons had been confined to his room and had been denied the activities of robust men, But through it all he had been a patient sufferer and true to the belief of the faith he possessed.
Mr Parsons was a native of Kentucky, where he was born March 9, 1837. He came west in 1870 and located on a big ranch in Mendocino county, where he resided until about a year ago, when he moved to Santa Rosa. He devoted his life to agricultural pursuits and was well known and much respected among his fellowmen. He was a gentleman of the old school who word was as good as his bond.
The deceased is surived by the following children: Robert Parsons of San Francisco; City Engineer J. C. Parsons of Santa Rose; George W. Parsons of Marysville; and Mrs. H.H. McKoon of Mendicino county. He also left two daughters be a second marriage.
The funeral will take place Saturday morning. High mass will be celebrated for the repose of his soul at St. Rose's Church at 8:30 by the Rev. Father J.M. Cassin. On the morning train the remains will be taken to Hopland and will be interred in the family plot in the cemetery thre. This is the fourth bereavement in the Parsons family in a little over a year.
The remains are at the funeral apartment of Lafferty and Smith.