James Parker

Here is a record of him --- [Elmer Decker, "Knox County Kentucky History", http://www.tcnet.net/ky/knox/decker.html, circa 1930s]: Pg. 51-52: CHURCHES The first church, with any recorded history, organized in Knox County and Southeastern Kentucky, was the Cumberland River Baptist Church, as follows: A memorandum of the constitution of the Cumberland River Church on the 12th day of May, anno. 1804. The following persons were constituted a church in Knox County, Kentucky, on Cumberland River (namely): Elijah Foley 1 Martha Barber 2 Isaac Martin 2 Mary Barber 3 Samuel Hibbard 3 Elizabeth Barber 4 James Parker 4 Sarah Bailey 5 In all nine members, and then adopted the following system of principles: 1st. We believe in me only true and living God and that he hath created all things for a purpose of His own glory and all very good. 2nd. We believe in the fall of man from the happy estate in which he as created and of his utter inability to recover himself to a state of favor with God. 3rd. We believe Jesus Christ is our Redeemer through whose imputed righteousness alone man can be justified in the sight of God. 4th. We believe in the Holy Ghost as the applier of the benefits of Redemption through Jesus Christ to our soul. 5th. We believe in Baptism by Immersion to be a Gospel ordinance and that true believers are the only proper subjects of the same. 6th. We believe in the perseverance of the saints in grace and holiness. 7th. We believe in resurrection of these our bodies after death and a general judgement. 8th. We believe that the punishment of the wicked and joys of the righteous will be eternal. And now being constituted into a church congregationally, being baptised on the confession of our faith and order do agree to submit ourselves to the order and ordinances and discipline of this church as Christ's visible kingdom, to watch over each other in the fear of God, to reprove and admonish in Christian charity and brotherly love and not to discover the infirmities of one another out of the community where it may be avoided nor to any in the community but by Gospel peace and order according to the best light we have or shall have from the Holy Scriptures. To communicate of our worldly substances as shall be most to the glory of God in decent support of the church and ministry, and we are for the aforesaid purpose to attend our respective meetings unless providentially hindered and have reasons to be rendered to the church when called for. Elders present at the constitution. Lemual Hibbard, William Jones 1st clerk Matthew Sims In August 1804, Elijah Foley was elected the first pastor. -------------- DEATH: From [Elmer Decker, History of Knox Co., Kentucky, p. 243]: Estates Appraised: James Parker, September 1810, appraisers R. Herndon, James Smith, John Alsup. ------------- From [Decker, p. 251]. James Parker owned one slave, a woman named Hannah. There is a Samuel Parker, age 74 [b. c1805/6] b. KY, parents b. KY/KY, living with his son Dan. W. Parker, in Rochester Twp., Andrew Co., Missouri in the 1880 census. Among his neighbors are the children & grandchildren of John Parker and Lydia Reddick. It seems possible that this Samuel Parker might be a son of James and Charlotty. There is a William Parker, age 58 [b.c 1801] b. KY, living in Nodaway, Andrew Co., Missouri in 1860, wife Wyshum. One of is daughters is named Charlotte, and his children were born in Indiana. This could very well be a son.