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Note: [2172283.ged] There are several notes related to the children of James M. and Elizabeth Wimp. One by Myrtle Parker (Horn), gives husbands of his daughters. One of the Daughters, filled out a pedigree chart saying she married someone else. Some work needs to be done here. James Marion Parker was born in Fulton County Illinois March 18, 1844, He moved to Indiana when just a baby with his parents, Branson D. and Ann Foster Parker, where he lived until the age of 19 when he enlisted in Company F-7th Indiana Cavalry for 3 years or until the end of the civil war. During that time he was in 17 battles and many skirmishes. The battles were: Okolona, Miss; Raleigh, Tenn.; Guntown,Miss.; Port Gibson, Miss.; Grand Gulf, Miss.; Verona, Miss. Egypt, Miss.; Baliner, Tenn,.; Hatchie River, Miss. ; Hurricane Creek, Miss,; Oxford, Miss.; LaMavoo, Miss.; Bastrop, La.; Independence, Mo.; Big Blue, Mo.; Little Osaqe, Mo.; and Mine Creek, Kansas.. In the 1870 census for Gardner, Johnson Co., Kansas, the following: James Parker, 26 , Farm Laborer, Illinois; Joshua, 22, farm laborer, Indiana Ann Simmons, 44, keeping house, Ohio. A letter written by James's brother Joshua's wife, indicates Jim was in Burrton in 1874 and losing his crops to the grasshopper horde. 1880 Census; His parents were born in Ohio/Illinois. No children yet of this marriage. 1900 census: His parents were born in Ohio/Ohio 1910 census, only 3 children still at home. Also his farm is next door to his son, Branson.
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