Payne Gap Cemetery Directory

C.D. (Colonel Decatur) Parker (1840-1906)

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Epitaph

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Military Service

C.D. enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1862 and served until the end of the Civil War. He served in Company A, 13th(?) Texas Calvary under G.H. Black, Captain. His regiment was dismounted, and he was transferred to Walker’s Division. He served both in the cavalry and infantry as a private.

Notes

C.D. (Colonel Decatur) was born on March 15, 1840, in Choctaw County, Mississippi, to Elijah Parker (1797-1850) and Mary [McKnight] Parker (1807-1850). He married Nancy Alexander Sanders (1847-1913), who was born in Muscogee County, Georgia, on September 16, 1865, in Ellis County, Texas. The couple lived in Leon County, Texas in 1860; in Milam, Texas, in 1880; and in Mills County in 1900. In Mills County, according to the 1900 U.S. Census, the family lived near the W.T. Carswell and the John Cook and John T. Cook families, likely in the Moline area. The couple had six children. C.D. is the only member of the family buried at the Payne Gap Cemetery.

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