I can not tell your story! But this is what your granddaughter wrote to me. "Yea before internet, there were hand written letters and telephone calls and hiding the bill."
The Will Parks family lived around Blue Ridge, Texas and then settled at Emory, in Rains County, Texas, where the children attended school at Harker Heights. This was a very small community near where Lake Tawakoni is now located. The Old Parks home place is long gone but the old rock barn still stands. It is unsure if the barn belong to the Parks or their good neighbors the Bishop's. The Bishop place was on one side of the creek and the Parks on the other. When the Indian Territory opened up for Settlement the Parks family along with Ben and Althea Simpson Armstrong family sold their land and headed north. Willie Ann's brother Hardin Griffith may have went with them. They traveled by covered wagon to get there. It is unsure how long the family stayed in Oklahoma. Later the Parks family settled near Wills Point, Texas. The children went to school at Josephine and later moved closer to Caddo Mills, Texas.
" We were told by my great uncle Roy and my mother's cousin Mamie, that the Parks household was a lively musical place. My great grandfather, Will Parks, always invited all the young people in the neighborhood to come for dances and my great grandmother, Willie Ann, would prepare food for them all. My grandmother played the organ and her brother Emmett played the guitar and the fiddle. My mother has only a few memories of her grandfather, Will, but she says he spoke with a slight Irish accent. And she remembered Him sitting in his rocking chair and reading his "Good Book" (the Bible), as he referred to it."
The Will Parks family lived around Blue Ridge, Texas and then settled at Emory, in Rains County, Texas, where the children attended school at Harker Heights. This was a very small community near where Lake Tawakoni is now located. The Old Parks home place is long gone but the old rock barn still stands. It is unsure if the barn belong to the Parks or their good neighbors the Bishop's. The Bishop place was on one side of the creek and the Parks on the other. When the Indian Territory opened up for Settlement the Parks family along with Ben and Althea Simpson Armstrong family sold their land and headed north. Willie Ann's brother Hardin Griffith may have went with them. They traveled by covered wagon to get there. It is unsure how long the family stayed in Oklahoma. Later the Parks family settled near Wills Point, Texas. The children went to school at Josephine and later moved closer to Caddo Mills, Texas.
" We were told by my great uncle Roy and my mother's cousin Mamie, that the Parks household was a lively musical place. My great grandfather, Will Parks, always invited all the young people in the neighborhood to come for dances and my great grandmother, Willie Ann, would prepare food for them all. My grandmother played the organ and her brother Emmett played the guitar and the fiddle. My mother has only a few memories of her grandfather, Will, but she says he spoke with a slight Irish accent. And she remembered Him sitting in his rocking chair and reading his "Good Book" (the Bible), as he referred to it."
I can not tell your story! But this is what your granddaughter wrote to me. "Yea before internet, there were hand written letters and telephone calls and hiding the bill."
The Will Parks family lived around Blue Ridge, Texas and then settled at Emory, in Rains County, Texas, where the children attended school at Harker Heights. This was a very small community near where Lake Tawakoni is now located. The Old Parks home place is long gone but the old rock barn still stands. It is unsure if the barn belong to the Parks or their good neighbors the Bishop's. The Bishop place was on one side of the creek and the Parks on the other. When the Indian Territory opened up for Settlement the Parks family along with Ben and Althea Simpson Armstrong family sold their land and headed north. Willie Ann's brother Hardin Griffith may have went with them. They traveled by covered wagon to get there. It is unsure how long the family stayed in Oklahoma. Later the Parks family settled near Wills Point, Texas. The children went to school at Josephine and later moved closer to Caddo Mills, Texas.
" We were told by my great uncle Roy and my mother's cousin Mamie, that the Parks household was a lively musical place. My great grandfather, Will Parks, always invited all the young people in the neighborhood to come for dances and my great grandmother, Willie Ann, would prepare food for them all. My grandmother played the organ and her brother Emmett played the guitar and the fiddle. My mother has only a few memories of her grandfather, Will, but she says he spoke with a slight Irish accent. And she remembered Him sitting in his rocking chair and reading his "Good Book" (the Bible), as he referred to it."
The Will Parks family lived around Blue Ridge, Texas and then settled at Emory, in Rains County, Texas, where the children attended school at Harker Heights. This was a very small community near where Lake Tawakoni is now located. The Old Parks home place is long gone but the old rock barn still stands. It is unsure if the barn belong to the Parks or their good neighbors the Bishop's. The Bishop place was on one side of the creek and the Parks on the other. When the Indian Territory opened up for Settlement the Parks family along with Ben and Althea Simpson Armstrong family sold their land and headed north. Willie Ann's brother Hardin Griffith may have went with them. They traveled by covered wagon to get there. It is unsure how long the family stayed in Oklahoma. Later the Parks family settled near Wills Point, Texas. The children went to school at Josephine and later moved closer to Caddo Mills, Texas.
" We were told by my great uncle Roy and my mother's cousin Mamie, that the Parks household was a lively musical place. My great grandfather, Will Parks, always invited all the young people in the neighborhood to come for dances and my great grandmother, Willie Ann, would prepare food for them all. My grandmother played the organ and her brother Emmett played the guitar and the fiddle. My mother has only a few memories of her grandfather, Will, but she says he spoke with a slight Irish accent. And she remembered Him sitting in his rocking chair and reading his "Good Book" (the Bible), as he referred to it."
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