(1) Hij is getrouwd met Mary Shepard Odom.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 14 juni 1899 te North Carolina op, hij was toen 32 jaar oud.
Kind(eren):
(2) Hij is getrouwd met Patty Borland Odom.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 15 april 1942, hij was toen 75 jaar oud.
1900
1910
PARKER, SURRY (1910 U.S. Census) Manufacturer, machine shopNORTH CAROLINA , BEAUFORT, LONGACRE TWPAge: 43, Male, Race: WHITE, Born: NCSeries: T624 Roll: 1097 Page: 78
1920
PARKER, SURRY (1920 U.S. Census) Superintendant, cooperage plantVIRGINIA , NORFOLK, PLEASANT GROVEAge: 53, Male, Race: WHITE, Born: VASeries: T625 Roll: 1900 Page: 121
1930
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SURRY PARKER
SURRY PARKER DIES IN HOSPITAL; FUNERAL AT 2 P.M.
PROMINENT LUMBERMAN OF EASTERN CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
Funeral services for Surry Parker, aged 75, who died Tuesday night at 10:15
o’clock at a local hospital, will be conducted this afternoon at 2 o’clock at
his residence, 1321 Brunswick Avenue. Interment will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery,
Suffolk.
Mr. Parker was the son of Capt George Thomas Parker, C.S.A., of Gates County,
N.C., and Mrs. Eunice Katherine Riddick Parker, of Nansemond County.
For 50 years Surry Parker was prominent as a lumberman in Eastern North
Carolina and Virginia. Born the year following the War Between the States, he
left Suffolk Military academy at the age of 15 and started to work. Because of
his achievements in mechanical engineering he established himself as an
outstanding man in Eastern North Carolina. He founded the town of Pine Town, in
Beaufort County, N.C., where for 30 years he designed and built logging
machines. He trained mechanics whose skill is a lasting tribute to him. During
his later years he continued to design and build logging equipment if Norfolk.
Mr. Parker was married in 1891 to Ida Jane Whaley, of Whaleyville, Va., by
whom he had one daughter. His first wife died in 1895. In 1899 he married Mary
Shepard Odom, of Suffolk, by whom he had four daughters. His second wife died in
1935, and recently he married Patty Borland Odom.
Mr. Parker is survived by his wife, five daughters, Mrs. William Mortimer
Harrison, of Newport News; Mrs. John Rawlings Edwards, of Greenville, N.C.; Mrs.
Watson Roberts, of Durham, N.C., Misses Peggy Byrd and Jane Odom Parker; six
grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Henley Parker and Mrs. A. Lynton Jones, and one
niece, Mrs. Harold Hudgins.
[Surry PARKER, Sr., d. 21 Apr 1942, age 75,
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block F, Lot 100), Suffolk,
donated obit, newspaper unknown, circa Apr. 23, 1942]
[file transcribed by Mrs. Bruce Saunders ((XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)),
and re-formatted by File Manager.]