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Note: George Solomon Parker, Jr. was born in 1862. His father, George Solomon Parker, Sr.(may also have been William Jackson Parker the First), is said to have died in a Confederate prison during the Civil War. When George, Jr. was age two, his mother (Mary) remarried to a John Nooner, Sr. At some point, Mary and John Nooner, Sr. must have divorced, because John Nooner, Sr. married Rhoda (her third husband), the widow of Mr. Jennings and mother of Rhoda R. Jennings. What happened to Mary is unknown, but the "parents" of George Solomon Parker, Jr. are said to have been killed by Indians in the Table Mountain area of the Choctaw Mountains (Garvin County, Oklahoma?) shortly after George Jr. and Rhoda R. Jennings were married about 1884. George Jr. is supposed to have tracked down and killed the Indians that had killed his parents and was said to be a different man after that. Rhoda Rebecca, George Jr.�s wife, was at least part Indian. When George Jr. found her filling out papers for her children to be eligible for Indian lands, etc., George Jr. threw the papers in the fire and said he didn't want people to know he had a bunch of "red assed kids". It is stated that George Jr. had no true siblings, only step and half brothers and sisters. George Jr. and Rhoda R. were supposed to have been step brother and sister. By William Jackson Parker's account, his father, George Jr., was a mean man. George used to whip Wm. J. until Wm. J. was 16 or 17. One day Wm. J. saw his father coming with a whip and knew he was going to beat him. Wm. J. took the whip away and told George he would kill him if he ever laid a hand on him again. Assume George never did again. He was probably afraid. George was a small man and William J. was big, about six feet one inch tall. Rhoda Rebecca was said to have been kindest and gentlest. She would do anything for anyone. George S. Jr. did blacksmithing in Oklahoma for neighboring farmers. George, Jr. is said to have been a witness to a murder. The Sheriff called on him to testify in court. Family of the accused swore in front of witness that if George did testify, they would "get him". Couple of days before the trial, George disappeared. Many years later, a Trout cousin or uncle told Earl Parker that he believed that George had been murdered. This would have been about 1913. Mable Parker said she was 7 years old when her father disappeared. Source: Unverified family stories. Source: Dee Parker ( Wife of Edward T. Parker) Stories she heard of the Parker family.
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