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B. T. PARKER, farmer and stock-raiser, section 17, post-office Carthage, He is a native of the Hoosier State, born in Knox county, Jan. 12, 1832; was there reared to manhood and received a common school education; was a farmer’s son and has followed that business through life. Was married Oct. 23, 1857, to Miss Mary J. Hollingsworth, also a native of Indiana. They are the parents of five sons, Francis M., born Aug. 3, 1858; Charles A., born Oct. 8, 1859; John, born March 17, 1861; William B., born Nov. 8, 1865; and Harland, born Jan. 12, 1879. Mr. Parker became a citizen of Jasper county, Mo., in 1869. Purchased the farm upon which he lives; consists of eighty-one acres of well improved land, situated four and one-half miles southeast of Carthage; well watered and calculated for stock-raising; also owns forty-five acres of woodland. His remote ancestors were Germans; his grandfather settled in Kentucky at an early day. His father was a pioneer settler of Knox county, Ind., where he still resides, aged and respected. Reared a family of four sons and eight daughters. The ancestors of Mrs. Parker were the Hollingsworths of South Carolina, a very old and respected family of the Palmetto State; her maternal ancestry were also Hollingsworths of South Carolina. Representatives of both branches of the family settled in Knox county, Ind., in territorial days.