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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Burton Parks: Birth: 02 MAR 1921 in Elizabeth, Union Co, New Jersey. Death: 06 DEC 2010 in Glouster Co Veterans, Memoriacemetery, Washinhton TWP,NJ/Williamstown, Glouster co, New Jersey

  2. Eleanor Louise Parks: Birth: 12 JAN 1924 in Roselle, Union Co, New, Jersey. Death: 27 OCT 2001 in Hammondton, New Jersey

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Sources
1. Title:   Public Member Trees
Page:   Database online.
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;
2. Title:   1930 United States Federal Census
Page:   Database online. Year: 1930; Census Place: Clark, Union, New Jersey; Roll: 1385; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 1; Image: 21.0.
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;
3. Title:   World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Page:   Database online. Registration Location: Hunterdon County, New Jersey; Roll: 1712202; Draft Board: 0.
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;
4. Title:   1910 United States Federal Census
Page:   Database online. Year: 1910; Census Place: East Tewksbury, Hunterdon, New Jersey; Roll: T624_895; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 25; Image: 693.
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;
5. Title:   1930 United States Federal Census
6. Title:   1910 United States Federal Census
7. Title:   Personal knowledge
8. Title:   Personal knowledge and dreath certificate
9. Title:   PA Death Records

Notes
a. Note:   H64
Note:   Floyd Parks abandoned by his father when he was about six years old was supported by his mother until age of about nine(9) years of age when he was farmed out to a distant cousin family the Hoffmans in Califon Tewksbery area of New Jersey. At about age fourteen (14) he first worked in a peach basket factory in Califon, then went to work at the Picatinney Arsenal in New Jersey until world War one , He served for two years in France in the Argone forest as a medic. Upon return after the war he worked as a tinsmith and pipefitter in the New Jersey shipyards, after marriage he learned plumbing from Uncle Mark Brady and worked with him on and off for a few years. He went to work for Mack truck as a machinist , and finally for Van Dorn's laundry in Plainfield, as a stationary engineer. He earned both a blue and a red certificate or license , quite an accomplishment for only a six grade education, After a few bouts with pleurisy, he sold out in New Jersey and moved to a farm in Knoxville, Toga co, Pennsylvania. He had built his last two houses in New Jersey the last in Union Village, still standing a brick home. He lived in Knoxville from the Summer of 1948 until his death, (Accidental fall from hay wagon) caused death. He also served as an air raid warden during WWI and volunteered with the shell shocked troops at Bonnie Burns sanatorium. See Article "One Quilt square" SAGHS quarterly or in this collection, depicting his life as written by his youngest son Robert.


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