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genealogical materials have been compiled by Ann
Woodlief. Please e-mail at awoodlief@yahoo.com if you wish to copy
or share additional information. Jeanne Matthews Masden (my sister) collected
most of the early Parrish material. Key Web Sites: The Path of the Parrish's (Brenda Parrish Wagner)and excerpts from Luther Davis' book. William Parrish (1725 Goochland Col., VA-1790, Granville Co, NC) & Mary AustinWilliam's father is said to be John Parrish (1680-1751). There were a several Parrishes who came early to VA, generally as indentured servants, settling further down the James River. Connections to one have not yet been made. They moved to Granville County, NC between 1785-1800. Children:
Valentine Parrish (1760 Va?-1849/50) & Elizabeth ParrishThey were married in Granville Co. NC in 1789, though both families (related, surely) had migrated there from Goochland Co., VA, probably around 1785. Elizabeth was the daughter of David Parrish (1734/35-1780/92) and Judith Holland, m. Goochland County, VA 4/1/1758 [David was likely the son of John Parish (1680-1751); beyond that, it is very hard to go, although there were several Parishes who came to VA in the 1600s). In 1805 Valentine and Elizabeth were living with Mrs. Rhoda Parrish in Lincoln Co, TN. (so Sherrod moved very young). In 1836 the tax records show Valentine on a 59 acre farm in Lincoln County. Children:
Sherrod Parish (Granville Co. NC 1802-1870, Nixon TN) & Eliza A. McClure (NC 1807)Sherrod is listed in in the 1820 census as Shared, living in Lincoln Co TN, farming with two males under 26 (brothers?); he and Eliza married around 1825. According to James Matthews, "My dad told me in 1930 that the wife whose maiden family name was McClure came from a family who disowned her when she married an itinerant dancing master. Years later the McClure family was said to have discovered a gold mine and offered their daughter an apron full of gold if she would return home to visit. She was preparing to go, but died and never was reconciled." In 1830 Sherard
Parish has one son, two daughters, his wife, and an older woman living
with him; in 1840, still in Lincoln, listed are two young males under
15, 1 male 50-60, 1 male 30-40, 2 females under 5, l between 15-20,
and 1 female, 30-40. In 1850 the census shows Sherod G. Parrish 48 and
Eliza A, 43; James M 19, William D 21, Elizabeth J. DeShazer 13, and
Tennessee 11, all living in Hardin CO TN; they appear again in 1870
as Sherrod (68), Eliza (63), Doney Rowe (18), Sarah (2). Children:
William Lawson Parish (5/3/1828 Lincoln Co TN-16/8/1915 Bernice OK) & Elizabeth J. Harlan (6/3/1841-18/7/1895 Indian Territory OK)They married 23/10/1856 in Randolph Co. MO, having moved to MO from TN. William Lawson Parish enlisted in Co A, 27th MO infantry, US Volunteers 8/10/1862 and was discharged almost a year later with total disability for "purulent otorhoea, scrofulus diathisis and general debility." She was the daughter of John William (1809, Lincoln Co TN-)) and Sarah Minerva Bread Harlan (1820-), born in TN and had five siblings (Samuel, Margaret, Mandana, Mary, James). Her father's parents were Isaac Harlan (1777,Mecklenburg Co NC-) and Elizabeth Smith (1802, Lincoln Co TN-). William and Elizabeth had 15 children; the only ones listed below are those who lived to adulthood. They lived in Macon, Cheriton, Randolph and McDonald counties, MO and ca. 1885-9 homesteaded in Indian Territory near what later was Bernice OK. He is listed in an 1880 census as "farmer, crippled." Children:
Armstead Alexander Parish (5/3/1878 Randolph Co MO-11/3/1963 Bernice OK) & Effie Leah Patterson (3/2/1883 Anderson MO-12/4/1929 Afton OK, buried Miami OK)They were married in Hope KS on 20/7/1902. He had served in the Spanish America War in the Phillippines and was one of the first Americans to scale the Great Wall (which he did with the aid of bayonets!). He was a "jack-of-all-trades," but often made a living repairing watches. They lived in many small towns in Oklahoma. After Effie died of a heart attack, he married Betty Rowe, 8/4/1933, and later Dora Tomlinson (7/11/1945). Children:
The Patterson HeritageRev Robert Patterson (22/4/1809 Buncombe Co NC--19/10/1876) & Leah Roberts (1/1/1809 Buncombe Co. NC)--12/7/1888)They were married in 1830. Reverend Robert Patterson was licensed to preach 1830 and ordained 1837 at Flat Creek Baptist Church, then spent 30 years as pastor of the Big Ivy Baptist Church (now Barnardsville Baptist). His obituary states he was "of humble origin, and he grew up in the grossest ignorance. When about twenty years of age he married into one of the leading families of the county. He did not know a letter in the book, but his wife had a limited knowledge of letters. He soon professed religion and joined the church at Flat Creek....his stammering and haggling, his uncouth language made his hearers to blush and covered his friends with shame. His wife undertook to teach him to read and he proved an apt student. Now he became a student of the scriptures, and withal his tongue seemed to be loosed...was a man of affairs, business tact and energy. Though penniless himself, his wife had a little property, and by dint of application, force of will, and frugal management they acquired a competency. Working by day and reading by a pine knot at night he increased his fortune, both materially and mentally...til he became a giant among men. His labors were more widespread than any of his contemporaries...In his day was a leading spirit in the churches and among his brethren; being a man of peace, he sought to promote harmony...Dr. Wingate, President of Wake Forest College, said of him, 'He is the grandest man I ever saw; he is just sublime, his eloquence is grand and overpowering'...His earnestness and native eloquence was perfectly entrancing at times; and to many it was a matter of astonishment that one so unlearned could so master thought and language. His father’s name was Robert Patterson, but no more is known about him.Children:
Joseph M. Patterson (15/8/1833 Buncombe Co NC--3/1/1902 Anderson MO) & Martha Jane Brown (Braun?) (ca. 1838 Buncombe Co NC)--They married 20/3/1855. Joseph enlisted in the Confederate forces in 1861 and was discharged at Appomattox on 4/9/1865. He farmed in Buncombe Co., being granted 63 acres at Big Ivy on Cody's Branch by his parents 8n 1869. He moved with his family to Mcdonald Co MO about 1871; his wife Martha deeded J.R. Patterson the 63 acres in 1876. Children:
Robert William Patterson (29/11/1857 Buncombe Co NC)--12/6/1915 Anderson MO) & Sarah Ellen Click (11/1/1858 McDonald Co MO)-20/3/1923 Anderson MO)They were married 31/3/1878 in McDonald Co MO. She was the daughter of Thomas L. Click (b. ca. 1834 TN) and Frances Ledbetter and the granddaughter of Levi Click (ca. 1805 VA-1860/70 McDonald Co MO) and Sarah Armstrong? (b. ca. 1813 TN). Robert Patterson was "one of McDonald County's best known and most honorable citizens." He was a school teacher, assessor, tax collector, notary public and justice of the peace, manager in a mercantile business, and bank cashier. According to J. A. Sturges' Illustrated History of McDonald County (1897) he was a Democrat, a lifelong Baptist, whose "business qualifications are first class and his genial manners and fair dealings contribute much to the success of the firm with which he is connected."Children:
The Roberts HeritageJohn Roberts (1751-) & Sarah (Hawkins?)[Note: this information is not fully verified. Any help would be appreciated.] John Roberts moved from Augusta Co VA, and was in the Watauga settlement by 1772. It is said that he founded New Market, VA. He stayed in the settlement until 1791, when he bought 100 acres near the conjunction of the French Broad and the Ivy Rivers. He probably fought at King’s Mtn in the Revolutionary War.Children:
Joshua Judson Roberts (17/2/1788, Buncombe Co NC-8/3/1861 NC) & Fannie BallThey married about 1808 and lived (as did most of the family) in the Flat Creek area of Buncombe County, near the French Broad and Ivy Rivers. After she died, he married Lydia Freeman, daughter of Rev. Moses Freeman, by 1817.Children: Children by Lydia Freeman:
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