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Henry Parks b. 5/31/1758 d. 5/18/1845 JACKSON COUNTY, GEORGIA
A native of Albermarle County, Virginia, he enlisted in 1774 or 1775 in Wilkes County, North Carolina. He served under Captain Moses Guest in Colonel Cleveland's Regiment of the North Carolina Line. He was on several Indian expeditions and was wounded in the arm at the Battle of King's Mountain. He later moved to Franklin County, where he lived for 36 years. He received a pension for his services.
Buried: Hargrove Cemetery, one to two miles east of Commerce.
See: (1) Abstracts of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots. Reported to D.A.R. in 1925 and 1939.
(2) Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, v. 3, p. 2600.
(3) Gone to Georgia, p. 31.
(4) Jackson County, Georgia Cemeteries, p. 23.
(5) The Patriots at King's Mountain, p. 201.
Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 1, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr., and Ryan Groenke. Edited by: Ryan Groenke.
A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index.
Published by the Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution, 2001.
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Author: Fredrick Arnold Weyler
Henry Parks was born 31May1758 in Albemarle County, VA to John and Ann Parks. From 1775 Henry served in the Wilkes County militia with various deployments. He was in Benjamin Cleveland’s militia under Captain Joel Lewis on Saturday 07Oct1780 at Kings Mountain when a pewter ball pierced his arm. Henry Parks is not recognized in the list of casualties on the 1909 monument at Kings Mountain.
Tory doctor Uzal Johnson treated the wound the next day. Col. Cleveland assigned Henry’s uncle, George Parks, to escort him home. It took two months for Henry to recover. Henry lived on Parks Creek adjoining the Surry/Wilkes County line near Gabriel Loving and William Loving, near Little Elkin River. George is the probable bearer of the news of the Lewis and Biecknell wounds to their neighborhoods.
Parks married Martha Justice in Wilkes County 09Dec1782. Their children were William Justice Parks; Charles Parks; Johnson Parks; Nancy A. Parks; Henry Parks, Jr. and 3 others.; Mary "Polly" PARKS; Elizabeth PARKS and John PARKS « less Parks was a Methodist preacher from Virginia to Georgia.
Henry Parks’ Georgia certificate 30.615 was issued 04May1836 for a federal pension at $40/annum in Franklin County. The pension was suspended 15Oct1839. The archives do not explain administration from 1839 to his 18May1845 death. Parks was granted 287.5 acres of bounty land in Franklin County, Georgia. He was buried in Hargrove Cemetery in Jackson County Georgia. N 34* 13' 01.3" Long. W 83* 25' 44.5"
Federal pension application files: Henry Parks http://www.revwarapps.org/s31898.pdf George Parks http://revwarapps.org/w27457.pdf John Stonecypher http://www.revwarapps.org/s16539.pdf
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