Notes for: Sylvester Parker
1870 Census, Ritchie Co, WV (Union District), enumerated in Jun 1870:
Sylvester Parker, 23, farmer; Mary J, 26; Josephine, 5 months; Thomas Pritchard, 12.
1880 Census, Ritchie Co, WV (Union District), enumerated on Jun 9 1880:
Sylvester Parker, 33, farmer; wife Mary J, 36; dau Josephine, 10; son Isaac N, 9; dau Nancy A, 5; son Benj. F, 3; dau Etta, 1.
1900 Census, Ritchie Co, WV (Union District), enumerated in Jun 1900:
Sylvester Parker, 42 (sic), b. Mar 1858 (sic), farmer, married 4 yrs; wife Christina, 40, b. Aug 1859, married 4 yrs, mother of 10 children (7 still living); dau Cretie D, 3, b. Nov 1896; stepson Hezakiah Leeson, 10, b. Nov 1889.
1910 Census, Ritchie Co, WV (Union District), enumerated on Apr 19 1910:
Sylvester Parker, 63, farmer, married 13 yrs (second marriage); wife Christena, 50, married 13 yrs (1st marriage), mother of 2 children (both still living); dau Crete D, 12; dau Rosatte, 6.
1920 Census, Vinton Co, Ohio (Eagle Township), enumerated in Feb 1920 on Pike Run Road:
Sylvester Parker, 72, b. W.Va, farmer, unable to read or write; wife Christine, 63, b. W.Va, able to read & write.
The next two households in the enumeration were those of Sylvester and Christine's two daughters:
Willie Adkins, 25, b. Kentucky, farm laborer; wife Rosie, 19, b. W.Va; both able to read & write.
and
Coda Merret, 34, b. W.Va, farmer; wife Creta, 23, b. W.Va; son Lester, 5, b. Ohio; son Ira, 1y 6m; both adults able to read & write.
NOTE: Minnie Kendall Lowther's "History of Ritchie County," published in 1911, incorrectly indicates on p. 344 that Sylvester Parker was already deceased.