SAMUEL LOUIS PARSONS
Samuel Louis Parsons, b September 15, 1848 in Louisiana, d August 25,
1926 and buried in Taylor Chapel Cemetery, Falls County, Texas - was the only
son of two children of David and Rachel (Richey) Par- sons, b May 19, 1832 in
Jefferson County, Alabama, d 1904 in Falls County and buried in Taylor Chapel
Cemetery, who were married in Sabine Parish, Louisiana on November 8, 1846.
Samuel's paternal grand- parents were E. B. Parsons, b 1791 in Georgia, dafter
1850 in Rusk County, Texas, and his wife, Mary (Brown) Parsons, who were married
in Jasper County, Georgia on January 28, 1815. Mary was in Falls County in 1860
with another son, Samuel L. Parsons. The maternal grandparents of Samuel Louis
Parsons were Daniel Boone Richey, b 1797 in South Carolina, d September 16, 1861
in Falls County, and his wife, Sarah (Brown) Richey, b 1810 in Georgia, d
September 15,1871 in Falls County.
The Parsons and Richey families moved from Louisiana to Rusk County,
Texas before 1850 - coming to Falls County after 1852. Samuel Louis' father,
David, died before 1850 - leaving Rachel with her son and a daughter, Mary
Parsons, b 1849. Rachel (Richey) Par- sons was married second on July 15, 1852
in Rusk County to John Maines, and had several issue by him in Falls County.
On June 19, 1878 in Falls County, Texas, Samuel Louis Parsons was married
to Mary Jane Taylor, b December 7,1861 near Deer Creek, Falls County, Texas, d
July 30, 1948 at Taylor Chapel- a daughter of James Monroe and Sarah Evelyn
(Shives) Taylor.
The couple reared ten of twelve children to adulthood. They engaged in
farming all their married lives. Their children were:
James T. Parsons, b February 25,1880, d June 11, 1968 -
married first to Elizabeth Beasley, who died in 1915. They had three children:
Ed Parsons, Ruth Par- sons, and J. T. Parsons. He married second on September
30, 1917 to Julia Patterson, and had five children: Louis Parsons, Irene
Parsons, Dorothy Parsons, Charles Lloyd, and Tommy Parsons.
Beulah Ann Parsons, b July 7, 1884, d July 28, 1969 in Ladonia, Texas -
married ca 1904 to John Roark, b February 10, 1871, d August 19, 1939 at
Ladonia, Texas. They had Walter Roark, and Ruby Roark.
Rachel Parsons, b February 27, 1886, d
September 28,1972 - married January 25,1903 to James Casey, b December 16, 1877,
d April 18, 1965 and buried in Hillcrest Cemetery at Marlin. They reared seven
of nine children: Fred Casey, Tom Casey, Beulah Casey, Arthur Casey, Jewel
Casey, Henry Casey, and Fern Casey.
John Parsons, b May 2, 1888, d December 16, 1940 and buried in Chapel
Hill Cemetery in Waco
- married Frankie Woodall, d 1971 in Waco. They had nine children:
A. C., Nick, John Jr., Samuel, Morris, Frank, Orphia, Bessie, and Vernell
Parsons.
William T. Parsons, b March 7,1891, d January 18, 1958 and buried in
Calvary Cemetery
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married September 7, 1913 to Mittie Meeks, b October 13,
1892, d June 6,1963 and buried in Calvary Cemetery. They reared six children:
Durwood Parsons, Douglas Par- sons; L. Flewellan, b August 10, 1918 - married
Virginia Bates and had Larry Parsons who married Vicki Chalmers, and had Yancy
and Cinnamon Parsons; June Parsons, Myrna Parsons, and Williford Parsons.
Robert E. Lee Parsons, b November 26, 1893, d December 26, 1961 and
buried in Calvary Cemetery- married July 29, 1917 to Minnie Casey, and married
second to Della Patterson, b October 4, 1903, d August 7,1971 and buried in
Calvary Cemetery. Robert had three children: Mozelle Parsons, b March 9, 1918
who married first to Melvin Glidewell and married second to Alamo Nixon; George
Parsons, b June 30, 1921-no information; and Mildred Parsons, b September 10,
1922, who married Mack Bowers.
Christopher Columbus Parsons, b March 8, 1896, d July 11,1962 and buried
in Hillcrest Cemetery-married Marian Springfield and had issue.
Josephine Parsons, b March 16, 1898, d May
6, 1946 and buried in Calvary Cemetery - married Leland Moore, b March 7, 1886,
d June 10, 1941 and buried in Calvary Cemetery. They had Mary Catherine Moore, b
October 19, 1921, d December 23, 1953 in an automobile wreck, who married Louis
Reichle and had Gary Reichle and Randy Reichle; Leland Andrew Moore, b October
31, 1930 who married Jeanette Red- knap and had Andrew Moore, Lisa Moore, and
Sally Moore.
Elizabeth Parsons, b August 13, 1901, d July 23, 1980 and buried in
Hillcrest Cemetery - married in 1923 to James Neumann Walton. They had James N.
Walton, Jr., b September 24,1924 who married in 1947 to Betty Rose Robinson, and
had Elizabeth ("Betsy") Walton, and James Walton, and reside in Brady, Texas;
and Billy Walton, b ca 1927 who married and had Elizabeth Walton, Billy Walton,
Jack Walton, and Tom Walton.
Amelia Parsons, b March 9, 1904, d September 3, 1986 and buried in
Calvary Cemetery in Marlin- married September 1, 1923 to Jack Loggins, b August
27, 1900 at Lott, d September 19, 1975 and buried in Calvary Cemetery - a son of
James Carter and Martha Jane ("Mattie" Sowders) Loggins. They had: Hazel
Loggins, b September 8, 1924 who married George Terrell Meece, and had Jack
Meece, Judy Meece, Carolyn Meece, and Tommy Meece - and then Hazel (Parsons)
Loggins married second to George Foster and had Peggy Foster and Sue Foster; and
Billy Loggins, who married and had Sherry Loggins, Linda Loggins, Mary Ann
Loggins, and Mike Loggins.
Samuel and Mary Jane Parsons had thirteen grandsons in World War II, and
five grandsons-in-law. Melvin Glidewell, who married Mozelle - daughter of
Robert and Della (Patterson) Parsons, was killed in action in Germanv on October
12. 1944.
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of
these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 344 column 2, page 345 column 1 and 2 and page 346 column 1.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.