7. Samuel² Parkison (John¹) was born in PA. about 1810. Samuel died November 10, 1855 in Decatur County, Indiana.

He married Sarah Anne Chambers in Decatur County, Indiana, April 20, 1837. Nancy was born about 1815. She was the daughter of Nancy Chambers. Nancy died about 1845.

Samuel Parkison and Sarah Anne Chambers had the following children:

+ 24 i. John Davis³ Parkison was born 1838.

25 ii. Mary Jane Parkison was born in Indiana after 1838. Mary died after 1900 in IL.. She married John Jr. Anspach in Shelby County, Indiana, April 25, 1858. John was born in Decatur County, Indiana December 5, 1834. A biographical sketch gives 1832 as date of birth. Date used estimated from death record. He was the son of John Anspach and Lydia Bailey.

He married Emeline Parkison in Shelby County, Indiana, August 30, 1855.(824) John died after 1884 in Jasper Co.,IL..⁽⁸²⁵⁾ John was listed as the head of a family on the 1860 Census in Sand Creek Twp.,Decatur Co.,IN..⁽⁸²⁶⁾ John was listed as the head of a family on the 1870 Census in Willow Hill Twp., Jasper Twp., IL.⁽⁸²⁷⁾ John was listed as the head of a family on the 1880 Census in Jasper Co.,IL.⁽⁸²⁸⁾ (See John Jr. Anspach for the continuation of this line.)

Mary was listed as the head of a family on the 1900 Census in Willow Hill Twp., Jasper Twp., IL.⁽⁸²⁹⁾ Mary Jane & John Anspach lived near Oblong, IL. at least part of the time. In 1861 they deeded Mary Jane's "undivided interest as an heir at law of Nancy Chambers, deceased" to Nicholas Chambers. Mary Jane is listed in the Mound Cemetery Plat book, as Jane Anspach, but Robert Parkison found no stone for her.

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