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The stones for Hugh Parks and Elizabeth are memorial stones. Both were buried at the old Park Cemetery in Scott County, Indiana, which was destroyed by a farmer in the second half of the twentieth century. The original headstones and location of those graves have been lost to history. A new cenotaph V/A flat stone was erected at Traylor Cemetery in Scott County in memory of the Patriot.
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Author: Mark Andrew Davis
Hugh Parks was born in the Orangeburg District of South Carolina in 1757, a son of Samuel and Mary (Vaughan) Parks. At about the age of 19 years, he enlisted for six months in Captain Roger More’s North Carolina Line. He re-enlisted for three years under Captain William Goodman, commanded by Colonel Polk, and served until discharged at New Jersey.
Shortly after returning home, he married Elizabeth Barnhill/Barnwell on 18 December 1781. In her affidavit for a Revolutionary War Widow’s Pension, it was recorded were married at Leatherford. However, it is likely she said Rutherford and was misheard.
By 1819, the family was living in Scott County, Indiana, and Hugh was in this county's 1820 and 1830 U.S. Census enumeration. He was also a resident of Scott County in 1833 when he first applied for a Revolutionary War pension.
Hugh died on 8 October 1838 at Scott County, and his Last Will and Testament was proved on 9 November 1840. He was originally buried at the old Parks Cemetery near Blocher, but in the second half of the twentieth century, the farmer who owned the land destroyed the stones and plowed over the graves. Many years later, a descendant erected new stones at another local cemetery. However, their graves were never recovered from the Park Cemetery.
In Elizabeth’s pension filing, she listed her children as John, Mary, Samuel, James, Hugh, Robert, Alexander, William, Margaret, Jesse, Pleasant, Elizabeth, and Sarah. Also, to prove her marriage, she tore out the pages from her bible where birth and marriages were recorded and included them with her pension application, which is of record in the National Archives.
Elizabeth died in 1844 and was laid to rest at the Park Cemetery.
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