Written by June Bostick Parham

Submitted by Ken Gates

 

 

 

 

 

 
Benjamin Roland “Chum” Parham, Sr.

December 28, 1883 – December 3, 1968

 

           Benjamin Roland “Chum” Parham, Sr. and Priscilla Clark
On their Wedding Day
October 15, 1908   

 

     Benjamin Roland Parham Sr. was born December 28,1883 in Bell County to Stith Alfred Parham and Mary Jane (Bowers] Parham.  He married Priscilla Clark on October 15,1908.  They started their lives together at Cego, Texas.

     Chum farmed on a tenant basis until he was able to purchase a 55-acre farm about 1920.  The farm had a house with an upstairs loft and a barn already on the place.  This was where he farmed and rented land to make a living for his family.   He worked hard and diligently, not only farming his land but also doing farm work for neighbors.  His children worked in the fields also.
  

     In the early 1960's he moved to Eddy where he lived until he was placed in a Health Care Center in Austin and died Dec. 3,1968 of pneumonia.  He is buried in the Blevins Cemetery in Falls County surrounded by his parents and loved ones.
  

     He was a member of the Methodist Church in Eddy after the church in Cego disbanded.

Priscilla Eleanor (Clark) Parham
February 18, 1891 - June 25,1966

 

     Priscilla Eleanor Clark was born February 18, 1891 at Cego, Falls County, Texas to Sarah Pauline Wyatt Clark and Charles Fitch Clark.  She went to School at Cego and was further educated at Peniel College at Greenville, Texas, which was a finishing school and college.

     Priscilla Eleanor Parham was the mother of ten children of which two died birth.  She was devoted to her family and provided for them in a manner much to be desired by her family and friends.  She loved sewing and cooking. She was a very neat person who carried herself well.  She was a faithful member of the Methodist Church in Cego and later in Eddy.  She instilled in her children independence and integrity.

     Priscilla Elenor was placed in a Health Care center in Austin, Texas in 1964.  She died June 25, 1966 at Seaton Hospital in Austin, Texas.  She is also buried in the Blevins Cemetery near her parents and grandparents.

     Children were Daphna and a twin that died at birth, Ruth, Mildred, Ben Ella, Sue, B, R., Jr., Dorothy, Betty and an infant who died at birth. As of September 2008 all of the children are deceased.