Charles Alonzo Parks

Notes:

Dahlia, June 6. -- Charles A. Parks passed away in the early hours of Sunday, June 4, at his home here following several months of failing health.

Mr. Parks was born September 9, 1878, on the farm where he had spent the most of his life. He is the last member of the large family of Jesse and Lucy Benton Parks, pioneers of this town.

In the fall of 1889 he married Miss Nettie Hunt, who survives with nine of the ten children born to them. Their eldest daughter, Jessie, wife of Ralph Bryan of Youngsville, died January 7, 1941. Surviving are Leland of this place, George of Liberty, Earl of White Sulphur Springs; Ethel, wife of Ed Wilbur, and Ora of North Midway; Blanche, Bruce, Dorothy and William, at home. There are twenty-four grandchildren, five of whom are in the war service and all but one overseas; there are also several great-grandchildren.

The funeral service of Mr. Parks will be held from the Ramsay funeral home, Liberty, Wednesday afternoon, with Rev. John R. Lennon of Warwick, former pastor of the White Sulphur Springs Methodist church, officiating. Interment in the Liberty cemetery.

(Sullivan County Record, Jeffersonville, NY, 8 June 1944 p. 5)

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79286188/charles_a-parks

Charles married Henrietta Hunt in 1889. Henrietta was born on 23 Jan 1869 in Liberty, Sullivan County, New York; died in Aug 1944 in Liberty, Sullivan County, New York; was buried in Old Liberty Cemetery, Liberty, Sullivan County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]