Mr. Parks
Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Thursday, 4 July 1850, page 3
MYSTERY
The Enquirer of Sunday had the following: About two months ago a man named Parks, residing in Newport, was missing, and the wonder was with the family what had become of him. It was known that he had been selling some property to the amount of about $1500. On Friday last, the rains that fell so flooded Taylor's Creek, just above Newport as to considerably wash away the earth in the channel, exposing the feet of a person who had evidently been buried there.
The body was exhumed and recognized to be that of Mr. Parks. A wide gash covered the whole of one side of his skull, and there were several deep cuts in the back of the neck, either of which were sufficient to have caused death. Of course not a doubt remains that Mr. Parks was robbed, then murdered and buried there, and the question is now, who were his murders, a question more easily asked than answered.
His family now in Newport in a most dejected and distressed situation.