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  1. George Edward Parker: Birth: 22 Apr 1863 in Geneseo, Henry, Illinois. Death: 8 Aug 1945 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois


Notes
a. Note:   Notes for Sylvia Vader Parker: Her last name as a small child might have been Vedder, which was the correct spelling of her father's last name for 38 to 48 years. Before Sylvia turned 10, the spelling of the last name for every member of the Vedder family was changed to Vader, for an unknown reason.
  At the time the 1850 U.S. census was recorded, Sylvia Vader was 19 years old. Sylvia and her 22-year-old unmarried sister Sarah Vader were living 54 miles east of the home of their father Jacob, his second wife and two younger brothers of the sisters. Jacob was in Ellington, New York, and the sisters were in Portville, New York. Their names were misspelled on the census page as Serah Vadder and Sylva Vadder. The sisters did not have occupations written by their names. They were living in the home of their married sister Harriet Senter and her family.
  The 1855 New York state census shows 24-year-old unmarried and unemployed Sylvia "Veder" still living with Harriet and her family in Portville. It was written that she had lived in Portville for nine years. If accurate, that would mean she left her parents' home at the age of 15, in 1846.
  At some point between June of 1855 and June of 1860, Sylvia Vader moved from New York state 660 miles west to Henry County, Illinois. Her sisters Mary Ann Vader and Betsey Eldridge, and Betsey's husband Lorenzo and their children, and all of Sylvia's known brothers (except possibly Harvey) also went to Henry County, or other counties in northwestern Illinois, within a few years of each other.
  During the late 1860s all five Vader brothers; Daniel, George, Isaiah, David, and Harvey, plus their half brother John, moved to Iowa. Those three Vader sisters; Sylvia, Betsey and Mary Ann, all stayed in Illinois, where they died. Another sister, Margaret Senter, had lived in northwestern Illinois from the late 1830s until her death in Illinois in 1854. Another sister, Harriet Senter, stayed in New York her whole life. The whereabouts of the remaining known Vader sisters, Sarah and Artemesia, after the 1850 U.S. census, are unknown.
  Betsey Eldridge had at least one child in Illinois, before she died at the young age of 41 on January 24,1860, in Atkinson.
  Sylvia Vader was listed in the 1860 U.S. census with her name misspelled as "Silvia Vada". Her age was written as 28, but she was actually 29. She was living in a hotel in Geneseo, Henry, Illinois. That was eight miles west of the town of Atkinson, where her widowed brother-in-law Lorenzo Eldridge and his children lived. Sylvia did not have an occupation listed. This was a few months before her marriage to George W. Parker, who was also living in Geneseo at the time of the 1860 census.
  A photo of that 1860 U.S. census page: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/EV7e2X8VfFvjuSHa7">Photo</a>
  The 1900 U.S. census had an effective date of June first, which was the day that 69-year-old Sylvia Parker was enumerated. She was living at the "Illinois Western Hospital for Insane", in Hampton Township, Rock Island, Illinois. That location is 15 miles northwest of where she had lived with her husband George Parker in Geneseo. George was still living in Geneseo at the time of the 1900 census. Sylvia died four months after that 1900 census was taken, at that hospital. A July 30, 1897<i>Geneseo Republic</i> newspaper paragraph stated that Sylvia was recently "accompanied" to that hospital. So she lived at that hospital for more than three years.
  The location of that "Illinois Western Hospital for Insane" is now the site of the East Moline Correctional Center (prison) in East Moline, Illinois, which is just two and a half blocks east of the Mississippi River. At least one original building on the "hospital" site still exists as of 2018.
  The local Geneseo newspaper printed an obituary for Sylvia Parker: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/LD7er58baz4Q85XF9">Photo</a>
  That obituary stated that Sylvia was from Cattaraugus County, New York, but census records from 1830, 1840, and 1850 all agree that her family had lived in adjacent Chautauqua County, in the town of Ellington.
  Sylvia's FindAGrave memorial: <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80088856/sylvia-parker">Memorial</a>
  Sylvia does not have a grave marker. When looking at her husband George's grave marker, Sylvia was buried immediately to the right. George's brother Levi lies immediately to the left of George.


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