(1863, MO  – 1937, AR) (Represented)  m. Mary Catherine (Mounecy) Henderson (1873, AR – 1927, AR)  1892, Baxter Co., AR. Six children, perhaps seven. Some researchers connect this William to a William Carroll Parks (1823-1900) and further back to a Francis Parks (b. c1783 in North Carolina. No definitive proofs of this connection.

Children:

• Myrtle (02RU1) Parks (1893, AR – 1981, AR) m1) Samuel Joseph Cowart (1879, TN – 1959, MO) 1911, Baxter County, AR, 2 children.  m2) William I. Provow (1889, TN – 1959, MO) after 1917, location unknown, no issue by this marriage. 

• Bradley (Braddy) Pinkston (02RU2) Parks, (1894, AR – 1974, AR) m. Frances Arlean Elizabeth Boatman (1894, AR – 1965, AR) 1914, Baxter County, AR. Six children known.

• Commadore Perry (02RU3) Parks (1898, AR – 1954, MO) married three times: m1) Ila Ida Meeks (1910 – 1932) 1930, Missouri, two children;  m2) Mary B  Standage (1901-1936), 1935, Baxter Co., AR, 2 children; m3) Madge Lewis (1909-1997) 1937, no issue.

• Lydia Fay “Rener” (02RU4) Parks (1900, AR – 1978, MO) m. Omes Benton Clines (1885, MO – 1962, ??) date and place of marriage unknown. One child.

• Ivory Joe Henry (02RU5) Parks (1906. AR – 1965, WA), ). Nothing further known..

• Ina Lizzie (02RU6) Parks, (1908, AR –  1997, MO) may have married a Greenhouse, nothing further known.   

• One researcher also names a daughter named Emma, born 1898, perhaps a twin to Commodore who died as an infant.  No further information is known on this child

(PS#883)