Sources

     Family letters, photographs, and original documents

     Genealogies compiled by Marshal A. Parker of Lima, Ohio, Oliver Morris, and John T. Chappell

     Newspaper obituaries and articles

     PARKER IN AMERICA, Niagara Frontier Publishing, Buffalo, NY, 1911

     "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register", volumes 112 through 114, article on "Robert Parker of Barnstable, Mass." by Maclean W. McLean, of Pittsburgh, Pa.

     Cemetery headstone inscriptions in Kosciusko County, Indiana

     Kosciusko County, Indiana, and Allen County, Ohio Vital Records

     Federal Census Records for Logan and Allen Counties, Ohio and Kosciusko County, Indiana for the years 1850 and 1860