INDEX PARKER HAYES MINCHEW BOND MAUDLIN WRIGHT YEATES SLEDGE CLARKE FLAKE PARKER-2 ROUNTREE SANDERLIN SAWYER JENNINGS HUDGINS FOSTER RIDDICK PARKER |
| Sally's Grandparents: Timothy E. Parker
1859 - 1927 | his
parents This is my working hypothesis - the way I see it as of this moment!!
painting from an old photo Timothy Edward Parker and Emily Hortense Rountree were
married at home* four p.m. on 21 March, 1894. *Home being the John A. Rountree home
located approximately two miles from Sunbury, N.C. "That of February 2, 1927, God in his providence did take from our midst our beloved Brother Timothy E. Parker. Brother Parker was 67 years of age. He had been a member of Reynoldson Baptist Church for 50 years and was a deacon for 23 years. He loved his church and was faithful in attendance. He was never happier than when he was rendering some service for his church, he gave liberally of his means and was ever ready to do all in his power to advance the cause of the Lord. He was a good and kind neighbor. He loved his neighbors and was ever ready at all times to do them a kindness. He was a man of high character and a perfect gentleman. He took part in all public affairs and stood for what he believed to be right, honest and just. He was a kind and affectionate husband and father. He leaves a wife, one son and one daughter. He spent all his life in the community in which he died. We can truly say that a good man has gone to be with his Lord and Master. His funeral was preached by Rev K C Homer of Gatesville Baptist Church, his pastor being sick. His body was laid to rest in the family cemetery. FIRST. That we extend to the bereaved family our deepest love and sympathy. SECOND. That God in his infinite wisdom doeth all things well and we bow in humble submission to his will. THIRD. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to his wife, a copy to his son, and daughter and a copy to the Biblical Recorder and a copy be spread on the minutes of this church. Respectfully submitted, M P Ellis; E S A Ellenor; M J Lawrence; J C Holland; I A Hines"
My father liked to tease Mother by saying her father was what he called a one-mule farmer who kept bees on the side. (Grandpoppa had a mule for plowing and a carriage horse.) My mother's retort was, "Poppa did only have one-mule on his farm but he kept all his farming gear and equipment either in barns or under shelter safe from the elements." Grandpoppa also kept about six hives of bees. My grandmother was not too keen about having all those hives in her garden. The day after my grandfather died, she claims she went over to the hives and rapped on them to get the bees attention and she told the bees, "Your master is dead and you bees had just best find another home because I am not tending to you." And she didn't and eventually the bees all went elsewhere to live.
Another story of Grandmother's was the time the stew was hot enough for Tim. It seems that one day she was making a kid-stew. The last time it had been made Tim had claimed it was not seasoned as hot as kid-stew should be. So this time Grandmother put in an extra pod of red pepper when she was seasoning the stew. Then it happened that Tim came by and saw the pot of stew cooking so he snuck in an extra pod of pepper. And a little latter his mother discovered the stew cooking in the kitchen unattended and remembering Tim taste, she too put in an extra pepper. Yes, the stew was indeed hot enough for Tim. * William and Sally Dudley were killed when an excursion boat capsized during a hurricane sometime in the mid '90's. Emily Jane Rountree who was keeping the children for their parents' holiday became their guardian. In 1898, Emily Jane Rountree, their grandmother died during a small pox epidemic. Tennie, who had been summoned to her mother's bedside as nurse, returned home after the funeral with her brother's four youngest children to raise. Tim and Tennie bought an organ for their parlor. All of the girls learned to play it, Ola, Emma, Alice, and Katie. Mama says that when one of the girls would be courting that pair would sit on the loveseat in the parlor while the rest of the family would gather around the organ singing songs. Judson Elder and some of Uncle Pomp's crowd were usually present also. The Parker Home was destroyed by fire during the winter of '27-28 while Tennie was away being the housemother at the local teacherage. She returned home to live in her store where she had sold ladies' hats trimmed to suit. There amid the ruins and ashes of her house, she planted a garden and tended her memories. Her flowers grew in abundance. Home of Tim and Tennie Parker ca 1910 Evidently Grandmother's home enjoyed a 4 star rating with the "drummers," peddlers, and Hoboes, who regularly traveled the rails that ran by her home going South in the winter and North in the summer . She provided them all with hot meals and a place to spend the night. Before the house burned they slept on a day bed which she had kept for them which sat on the dog-trot or breezeway (porch) between the house and the kitchen. Afterwards she just gave them a blanket and sent them to the barn to sleep. There was one man in particular that for years showed up every spring and fall without fail. She referred to him as "the wild goose." My cousin J. B. remembers seeing "the wild goose" on his last visit ca 1932. "I had gone with Daddy before breakfast to milk the cow when all of a sudden "the wild goose" climbed down out of the barn with his blanket, chatted awhile with Daddy, then got some breakfast from grandmother, and went on his way." J. B. Parker remembering his grandmother: There
was this one time that Grandmother really got mad with my father. One
Sunday returning from Church, as we came to a stop in the yard , Dad
says, Grandmother would not go anywhere late. Once Dad
was late in picking her up one Sunday and she refused to go to church with
us saying she did not want to arrive late. My sister Julia Lawrence tells of the time we were
going over to Gates County for a family reunion one Sunday in 1939. Daddy
was driving the big old red Chrysler. In the car were Mother, holding the
baby Arthur, Daddy and Miss Conwell were in the front seat and in the back
was Grandmother holding me, Helen, John, Julia and Jane. Children of Timothy Parker and Emily Hortense Rountree:
married 20 May, 1925 at Sarem, John Raynor Moore 1892-1969 Maple Lawn
Children of William Dudley and wife, Sally Sanderlin*:
3. William Wallace Dudley Sept 1891 - Grandmother & her grandchildren on her 60th Birthday Grandmother & her grandchildren on her 80th Birthday
her two children Ola and Beaurie and their spouses, Raynor Moore and Lillie Parker, Blanche Parker and Warren Nebles. Richard Turner took the picture.
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Emily Hortense Rountree, daughter of John
Abner Rountree and his wife, Emily Jane Sanderlin Dudley Walker was born 27 August, 1870.
Tennie Parker departed this life 1 June, l952, at Maple Lawn, Hertford Co., N.C, the home
of her daughter, Ola Moore.
