U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Parks, Noah Stout (1868-1944) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Page 440-441 Noah Stout Parks, born 1868 near Romine's Mill, son of Granville and Susan (Hardman) Parks, was married January 20, 1887, on Elk Creek, to Mary Etta, daughter of John Riley and Amanda (Simon) Zinn. Children, Lula Anna May, Rosa Bara Jane, Opal Jennie Belle, Sarah Van Leer. He is a member of the United Brethren Church, and of the orders I. O. O. F. and T. K. O. M. In politics he is a Democrat and in business a traveling salesman for the McCormick Machine Company, and lives at Mansfield. Noah Parks, his great grandfather, was an Englishman and was an early settler on Brushy Fork. Mr. Parks introduced the bronze turkeys and Light Brama chickens into Barbour; also introduced the Reuben Turner stock of horses from Kentucky into Barbour; also introduced the first traction engine for threshing machine purposes, in 1893. He owns a half interest in a patent car coupler and is a stockholder in an oil well at the Kelley mines. Mr. Parks' father was a prisoner at Camp Chase in the Civil War. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Barbour County, WV #6780 FULL-NAME: Noah Stout Parks BIRTH-DATE: Aug. 2, 1863 BIRTH-PLACE: Harrison County, WV DEATH-DATE: June 15, 1944 DEATH-PLACE: Philippi, Barbour County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed OCCUPATION: Salesman FATHER: Granville Parks (born in Harrison County) MOTHER: Susan Hardman (born in Harrison County) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Cebro Hemorage (sic) while driving car, died instantly BURIAL: Masonic Cemetery in Philippi ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------