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Descendants of Samuel Parrish


8. JAMES P.6 PARRISH (SAMUEL5, EDWARD4, EDWARD3, WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1)1 was born July 24, 1818 in Jeffers Creek, Darlington, SC1, and died February 24, 1884 in Waco, McLennan County, TX1. He married (1) MARY ANN DOWLING1 1840 in Dale County, AL1, daughter of DEMPSEY DOWLING and MARTHA STOKES. She was born 1823 in South Carolina1, and died 1856 in Dale County, AL1. He married (2) ELIZABETH BODDIE1 1857 in Dale County, Alabama1, daughter of ABIJAH BODDIE and ELIZABETH BARTLETT. She was born 1832 in Edgefield, SC1, and died November 11, 1869 in Waco, McLennan County, TX1. He married (3) MARY E. THOMPSON1 December 05, 1870 in McLennan County, TX by Rev. Richie1. She was born 18321.

Notes for JAMES P. PARRISH:
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CENSUS: 1850 Dale County, AL #107/173, October 19, 1850
James Parrish 33 SC
Mary Ann 27 SC
Chapman 8 AL
Macellus 7 AL
Savanna 5 AL
Alfred D. 3 AL (Rosa Burr)
James Y. 6 mos AL
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CENSUS: 1860 Dale County, AL, Page 754, Newton PO, September 22, 1860
James Parrish 40 SC
Elizabeth 29 SC
Marcellus 17 AL
Savannah 15 AL
Alphea D. 13 AL
Young 10 AL
Lawrence 8 AL
Mary A. 4 AL
Emma F. 2 AL
James A. 1 AL
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CENSUS: 1870 McLennan County, TX 368/375
James Parish 50 SC Farmer $1600 $1300
Young 20 AL
Laurance 18 AL (Listed as Florence)
Mary 13 AL
Emma 12 AL
James 10 AL
Francis 8 AL
Alabama 5 AL
Abaija 4 TX
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CENSUS: 1880 McLennan County, TX 107B4
James Parrish 62 SC Farmer
Mary E. 48 VA VA VA
Bartow 18 AL
Alabama 16 AL
Abijah B. 14 AL
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James P. Parrish and his brother Emanuel married the Dowling sisters, Mary Ann and Martha, in Dale County, Alabama. Mary Ann Dowling Parrish died shortly after the birth of her eighth child, a daughter, who she also named Mary Ann. James Parrish has been described as a milright, planter, farmer, judge and soldier. His application to serve in the Indian Wars in March 1836 stated he was 5'10" tall, black hair, black eyes. Entering the regiment at Daleville, he served in the Indian Wars March or April 1836 through June or July 1836. He served in Florida under the command of Captain Seaborn Ledbetter with the regiment of Alabama Volunteers in a conflict with the Seminole Indians.

James Parrish and his wife Elizabeth came to Texas in 1865. They made the journey in covered wagons, drawn by oxen, and settled in the Brazos River Valley, eight miles east of Waco on the banks of Tehuacana Creek. By 1866, Elizabeth had given birth to five children.
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Original land purchases by James Parrish from the Federal government, as recorded in the Dale County tract book: all now within Ft. Rucker reservation, Alabama.
1836      Township 5, Range 23, Section 21 and Section 27
1850      Township 5, Range 23, Section 23
1853      Township 5, Range 23, Section 26
1855      Township 5, Range 23, Section 34




More About JAMES P. PARRISH:
Burial: Concord Cemetery

Notes for ELIZABETH BODDIE:
Elizabeth Boddie, the daughter of Abijah and Elizabeth Boddie, was born in 1832, in Edgefield County, S.C., m. James Parrish, a widower about 1857 in Alabama. James Parrish was born July 24, 1818 at Darlington, S. C., the son of Samuel, b. 1765, Virginia, and Elizabeth Parrish, b. 1785, N. C.. James Parrish moved with his father to Ozark, Dale County, Alabama about 1835. He married (1) Mary Ann Dowling, b. 1823 in S. C., the daughter of Dempsey Dowling (1783-1865), about 1840 and they had the following children: Chapman, b. 1842, Alabama: Marcellus, b. 1843, Alabama; Savanna, b. 1845, Alabama, m. Philip Clark; Rosa Burr Parrish, b. 1847, Alabama, m. John Holley November 27, 1867 and lived at "Solitude", their farm near Waco, Texas; James Young, b. 1850, Ala.,m. Martha Bird; Lawrence, b. 1852, Ala., m. Martha Bird, widow of his brother; and Mary Ann, b. 1854, Ala., m. Joseph G. Deveny. Mary Ann Dowling Parrish d. about 1856 in Dale County, Alabama.

James Parrish and his wife, Elizabeth Boddie, moved from Dale County, Alabama to Waco, Texas in 1865, traveling in covered wagons drawn by oxen. They settled in the Brazos River Valley, eight miles East of Waco, at the old Pleasant Hill Community, now known as Concord Community, on the banks of Tehuacana Creek. This area was part of the Thomas de la Vega grant and was wild and unsettled at the time the Parrishes arrived.

In 1866, James and Elizabeth Boddie Parrish purchased a farm on which they built a typical pioneer Texas ranch house. The lumber for this house was brought to Waco by ox drawn wagons from East Texas and one room was notable for its interior of red cedar wood. They set out a grove of cottonwood trees about the place and called it Cottonwood Grove Plantation. It consisted of about 800 acres.

Elizabeth Boddie was well known for her singularly good, kind and gracious disposition. As the young mother of several step-children, she had a particularly delicate role to play, but she was held in high esteem by her step-children as well as her own children, and the descendants of both, as has been attested to by her granddaughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Torrance, many times throughout the years by various relatives who knew her and knew of her. She was an excellent horsewoman, always, of course, riding side saddle. Once, while riding on the road near her home, her horse, about to cross a bridge on Tehuacana Creek, stopped shimmied, neighed, and refused to cross. She nevertheless spurred him on and, on reaching the other side, was startled by the cries of a panther coming from under the bridge. She fled and the panther followed in pursuit. Despite the distressing circumstances of the situation, she remained calm and in an attempt to distract the panther from its prey, threw down her apron. The panther stopped and sniffed around as she on her horse continued to flee. Soon the panther was in pursuit again and she tried again to delay him by throwing down her bonnet. This time the panther stopped and was distracted long enough for her to get back to the house where she called her husband to do away with the panther.

Elizabeth Boddie Parrish D. November 11, 1869, at Cottonwood Grove Plantation, near Waco, McLennan County, Texas. It was her request to be buried beside a small church building in the Pleasant Hill Community not far from her home. She was buried beside the little country church building and became the first person to buried in the Concord Cemetery, East of Waco, in McLennan County, Texas. A brick tomb was built above her grave, but this deteriorated throughout the years and has disappeared. She died at the birth of triplets who, also, died at birth. They were buried on either side of her and at her foot.
There are currently five generations of the Parrish family buried in Concord Cemetery.








More About ELIZABETH BODDIE:
Burial: Concord Cemetery
Twin: Of Mahala

Notes for MARY E. THOMPSON:
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After death of James Parrish, Mary lived in Eastland County, TX where she filed for his pension March 1, 1903.
     
Children of JAMES PARRISH and MARY DOWLING are:
  i.   CHAPMAN7 PARRISH1, b. 1842, Alabama1.
  ii.   MARCELLUS PARRISH1, b. 1843, Alabama1; d. July 01, 1863, Gettysburg, Pa1.
  Notes for MARCELLUS PARRISH:
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Marcellus Parrish died at the Battle of Gettysburg in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the scene of decisive victory of Federal over Confederate forces, July 1-3, 1963. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, one of the most famous of all short speeches, was delivered here at dedication of the National Cemetery, November 19, 1863. " ~that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion~that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain~that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom~and that government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth." Abraham Lincoln

  More About MARCELLUS PARRISH:
Served: CSA Vicksburg
  iii.   SAVANNA PARRISH1, b. 1845, Alabama1; m. M. PHILIP CLARK1; b. Abt. 1845.
31. iv.   ROSA BURR PARRISH, b. 1847, Alabama; d. August 15, 1924, Axtell, McLennan County, TX, Buried Concord Cemetery.
32. v.   JAMES YOUNG PARRISH, b. June 1850, Alabama; d. 1893, McLennan County, TX.
33. vi.   LAWRENCE PARRISH, b. March 08, 1852, Alabama; d. September 10, 1937, Waco, McLennan County, TX, Buried Concord Cemetery.
  vii.   SARAH PARRISH1, b. Abt. 1854, Covington County, AL1; d. Bef. 1859, Alabama1.
34. viii.   MARY ANN PARRISH, b. April 01, 1856, Covington County, Alabama; d. July 26, 1919, Waco, McLennan County, TX, Buried Concord Cemetery.
     
Children of JAMES PARRISH and ELIZABETH BODDIE are:
35. ix.   EMMA FRANCES7 PARRISH, b. April 02, 1858, Alabama; d. December 02, 1911, Waco, McLennan County, TX, Buried Concord Cemetery.
36. x.   JAMES AUGUSTUS PARRISH, b. October 14, 1859, Dale County, AL; d. October 27, 1925, Waco, McLennan County, TX.
  xi.   FRANCIS BARTHOLOMEW PARRISH1, b. 18621; d. January 21, 1926, Waco, McLennan County, TX, buried Concord Cemetery1; m. EMMA DAMRON, March 10, 1881, McLennan County, TX, by J. H. Richey; b. Abt. 1865.
37. xii.   ALABAMA ALICE PARRISH, b. 1865, Alabama; d. Abt. 1900, Waco, McLennan County, TX.
  xiii.   ABIJAH B. PARRISH1, b. 1866, Texas1.
  xiv.   PARRISH TRIPLETS1, b. 18691; d. 1869, at birth1.

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