PARKS, JAMES 2^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]}

• Name	PARKS, JAMES 2
  Gender	Unknown
  _DNA	Group 008
  Lineage Key	IP
  Person ID	I23	Hugh Parks Sr. LK=IP
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Original descendant report entry: 4. JAMES 2 PARKS (Hugh1, SamuelA Jr., SamuelB, ThomasC, John JamesD) was born about 1787 in South Carolina8. He married (1) LYDIA WILSON CORNELIUS on 19 Feb 1839 in Scott County, Indiana. She was born about 1808 in Delaware 9. He married (2) DORCAS on 10 Dec 1858 in Scott County, Indiana. She was born about 1805 in Kentucky, USA9. He married UNKNOWN. Notes for James Parks: A Private James Parks mustered into Captain Eleazer Heady's (or Heddin) Company of the Kentucky Mounted Volunteer Militia Commanded by Col. John Calloway at New Castle, Henry County, Kentucky 30 Aug 1813 and mustered out 7 Nov 1813. Scott County, Indiana, Deed Book L, p. 50-52. This Indenture made the 1st day of may in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty nine between Rees Morgan Sheriff of Scott County in the State of Indiana of the one part and Robert Parks of the County aforesaid of the other part. Whereas by a decree of the Scott Circuit Court in Chancery setting for the County aforesaid at the February term thereof to wit in the 20th twentieth day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty nine it was among other things adjudged ordered and decreed that James Parks defendant pay into the Clerks office of said Court within thirty days from the said 20th twentieth day of February for the use of Hugh Baker administrator Debonas non of the Estate of Hugh Parks Sr deceased complainant the sum of one hundred and eighty six dollars and fifty cents with costs and accruing interest and that in default thereof to wit the payment of said sum of money by the said James Parks with the costs and accruing interest into the clerks office within the time aforesaid the equity of redemption of the said defendant James Parks in and to the said mortgaged premises to wit all the undivided interest of the said James Parks (as an heir of said Hugh Parks sr deceased) in and to one hundred and ten acres of land in the South west quarter of Section Twelve in Township Three North of Range Seven East and eighty acres of land being the west half of south east quarter of the same section township and range as above being the land of which said Hugh Parks died seized and possessed lying in Scott County Indiana be forever barred and foreclosed and that the same be sold as other lands are sold on execution and out of the proceeds of such sale the said complainant shall be first paid his said debt interest and costs and the residue if any shall be paid over to the said James Parks and whereas the said Hugh Baker sued out an order of sale directed to the said Rees Morgan Sheriff of said County by which said writ the said Sheriff was commanded to sell the above described lands as other lands are sold on execution and have those moneys at the Court house in Lexington within one year from the date hereof to render unto the said Hugh Baker administrator aforesaid complainant for his debt interest and costs and also the said writ and whereas the said Rees Morgan Sheriff as aforesaid in pursuance of the said writ having legally advertised the same did on the twentieth day of April in the year of our lord eighteen hundred and forty nine at the court house door in Lexington in the county aforesaid by public auction first expose to sale the rents and proffits of the said lands for the term of seven years and no person biding for the same he then offered by public auction as aforesaid the fee simple of said lands on all the estate right and title of the said James Parks in and to the same and the said Robert Parks did then and there bid for the same the sum of sixty four Dollars and twenty five and no person biding more the said tract or parcel of land with the appurtenances was in due form openly struck off and sold to the said Robert Parks for the said sum of sixty four Dollars and twenty five cents he being the highest bidder and that being the highest and best price bidden for the same therefore to confirm to the said Robert Parks the sale so made as aforesaid this Indenture witnesseth that the said Rees Morgan Sheriff as aforesaid for and in consideration of the aforesaid sum of sixty dollars and twenty five cents to him in hand paid Robert Parks the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge hath by virtue of Laws of Indiana granted bargained sold conveyed and confirmed and doth by these presents grant bargain sell convey and confirm to the said Robert Parks his heirs and assigns forever all of the above described lands estimated to contain sixteen acres by the same more or less together with all the priveleges proffits and appurtenances thereto belonging and all the estate right title interest and claim of the said James Parks in and to the same and every part thereof to have and to hold all and singular the premises aforesaid with the appurtenances to the said Robert Parks his heirs and assigns forever in full and ample a manner as the said James Parks had and held the same immediately before the issuing of the aforesaid order of sale in witness whereof the said Rees Morgan Sheriff as aforesaid hath hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written. Rees Morgan. State of Indiana Scott County. This day personally appeared before me the undersigned Recorder of said county the within named Rees Morgan sheriff of the said County who acknowledged the within deed of conveyance to Robert Parks to be his voluntary official act and deed for the uses and purposes therein set forth. Given under my hand and seal at Lexington this 4th day of May AD 1849 Willis L. Traylor. Filed May the 4 and Recorded May the 7 1849. Test Willis L. Traylor James Parks and Lydia Wilson Cornelius had the following children: +21. i. JONATHAN C.3 PARKS was born on 26 Nov 1839 in Indiana, USA. He died on 18 Dec 1916. He married Mary J. Crow on 05 Sep 1867. She was born on 11 Dec 1844 in Generation y 2 (con't)p Indiana, USA. She died on 17 Aug 1924. +22. ii. JESSE W. PARKS was born about 1841 in Indiana, USA. He married Sarah Coffman on 14 Mar 1862. She was born about 1844 in Indiana, USA. 23. iii. SALENE B. PARKS was born about 1843 in Indiana, USA. +24. iv. LOVEY PARKS was born about 1846 in Indiana, USA. She died on 11 Apr 1892 in Scott County, Indiana. She married James Meranda on 09 Feb 1873 in Scott County, Indiana. He was born about 1847 in Indiana, USA. He died in 1908 in Scott County, Indiana. +25. v. JAMES J. PARKS was born on 12 Oct 1850 in Indiana, USA. He died on 04 Dec 1919 in Toronto, Woodson County, Kansas. He married (1) LINNIE CROW on 31 Jan 1877 in Scott County, Indiana. She was born on 07 Sep 1846 in Indiana, USA. She died on 30 Oct 1945 in Toronto, Woodson County, Kansas. He married (2) SARAH JANE MURPHY on 26 Mar 1874 in Scott County, Indiana. She was born on 10 Apr 1854. She died on 10 Jun 1875. Notes for Dorcas: After Jesse's death, Dorcas married his brother, James. James Parks and Unknown had the following children: +26. i. HUGH3 PARKS was born on 03 Feb 1810 in South Carolina. He died on 08 Oct 1842 in Scott County, Indiana. He married (1) MARY BAKER on 06 Nov 1834 in Scott County, Indiana. He married (2) PRISCILLA VEST on 21 Aug 1836. She was born on 04 Mar 1816 in Henry, Kentucky, USA. She died on 15 Mar 1891 in Jefferson County, Indiana. +27. ii. MARY POLLY PARKS16 was born about 1814 in South Carolina9, 16. She died before 1870. She married Robert Parks, son of Hugh Parks and Elizabeth Barnhill in 1842 in Indiana, USA. He was born on 07 Feb 1793 in South Carolina12, 13, 14, 15. 28. iii. LEAH PARKS was born in South Carolina. She married Andrew Stevens on 29 Jan 1828 in Scott County, Indiana. 29. iv. MARGARET PARKS. She married Robert Baker, son of Hugh Baker and Margaret Unknown on 05 Mar 1835 in Scott County, Indiana. +30. v. JAMES PARKS was born on 23 Nov 1818 in Indiana, USA. He died on 06 Sep 1877. He married Hanna Kimberlin on 07 Jan 1841 in Scott County, Indiana. She was born on 15 Feb 1821 in Scott County, Indiana. She died on 11 Mar 1906 in Scott County, Indiana. 31. vi. JANE PARKS was born about 1821 in North Carolina. She married Hiram Hougland on 09 Jan 1840 in Scott County, Indiana. +32. vii. ANNE PARKS was born about 1817 in Indiana, USA. She married Henry Hougland on 31 Oct 1839 in Scott County, Indiana. He was born about 1810 in Indiana, USA. +33. viii. YOUNG GRIFFIN PARKS was born in Sep 1826 in North Carolina. He died on 11 Aug 1887 in Austin, Scott County, Indiana. He married (1) SARAH HUFFORD on 03 Nov 1842 in Scott County, Indiana. She was born in 1826 in Kentucky, USA. He married (2) MARTHA SAUGDON on 01 Mar 1857 in Washington County, Indiana. She was born about 1833 in Indiana, USA. She died on 22 Nov 1883 in Austin, Scott County, Indiana. He married (3) ELLEN BRIDGEWATER on 23 Oct 1884. She died on 14 Sep 1897.

  
  

• Sources

  [S0] Wilma Handley, Descendants of Hugh Parks descendant report (PDF). [S1] Source 1 from Descendants of Hugh Parks report. [S3] Source 3 from Descendants of Hugh Parks report. [S8] Source 8 from Descendants of Hugh Parks report. [S9] Source 9 from Descendants of Hugh Parks report. [S12] Source 12 from Descendants of Hugh Parks report. [S13] Source 13 from Descendants of Hugh Parks report. [S14] Source 14 from Descendants of Hugh Parks report. [S15] Source 15 from Descendants of Hugh Parks report. [S16] Source 16 from Descendants of Hugh Parks report.