Donald Llewellyn Parker: McKeown Genealogy

1927 - 1993 (66 years)

Generation: 1

1.	Donald Llewellyn Parker was born on 14 Jul 1927 in Los Angeles County, California (son of William Roscoe Parker and Gladys Llewellyn Moore); died on 5 Nov 1993 in Los Angeles County, California.

Generation: 2

William Roscoe Parker was born on 31 Oct 1890 in Fostoria, Hancock County, Ohio (son of John Ardery Parker and Lucy Drumm); died on 20 Jun 1978 in Orange County, California.

Other Events:

Census: 1930, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California
Census: 1930, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California

Notes:

$30 Monthly for Each Baby.
Los Angeles, Cal. – Orrel A. Parker of New York has a chance to add to his income if he has babies enough. By the terms of the will of his brother, Frederick D. Parker, who died here recently, which was filed here, he and his wife are to be given $30 a month apiece for each child that is born to them. The will also provides that another brother, William R. Parker, of this city, be given $30 a month and if he marries, that much additional to be paid to each child born of the union.
The Clyde Enterprise, Clyde, Ohio. Thursday, 22 December 1910.

Courthouse Note
Brevities Miscellaneous
All to the son: By the terms of the will of Lucy Parker, a widow, filed for probate yesterday, her estate, estimated to be worth $6500, is left to her son, William A. Parker, and C.M. Wood is nominated as guardian of the boy.
The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California. Sunday, 25 November 1909.

William married Gladys Llewellyn Moore. Gladys was born on 29 Aug 1889 in California; died on 10 May 1948 in Los Angeles County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gladys Llewellyn Moore was born on 29 Aug 1889 in California; died on 10 May 1948 in Los Angeles County, California.

Children:

1. Donald Llewellyn Parker was born on 14 Jul 1927 in Los Angeles County, California; died on 5 Nov 1993 in Los Angeles County, California.

Generation: 3

John Ardery Parker was born on 29 Jun 1842 in Ohio (son of John Brown Parker and Margaret Ardery); died on 2 Nov 1900; was buried in Fountain Cemetery, Fostoria, Hancock County, Ohio.

Other Events:

_MILT: Civil War. US Army. Private.
Census: 1880, Fostoria, Seneca County, Ohio
Census: 1900, Fostoria, Seneca County, Ohio
Census: 1900, Fostoria, Seneca County, Ohio

Notes:

Ohio soldier grave registration:
Name: John A. Parker
Birth Date: 1842
Enlistment Date: 25 Sep 1864
Discharge Date: 14 Aug 1865
Death Date: 1900
Burial Place: Fostoria, Ohio, USA
Cemetery: Fountain
Rank: Private
Branch of Service: Army

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57516404/john-ardrey-parker

Section H, Lot 314, Row 7

John married Lucy Drumm on 12 Dec 1871 in Muskingum County, Ohio. Lucy was born in May 1851 in Ohio; died on 15 Nov 1909 in Los Angeles County, California; was buried in Fountain Cemetery, Fostoria, Hancock County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lucy Drumm was born in May 1851 in Ohio; died on 15 Nov 1909 in Los Angeles County, California; was buried in Fountain Cemetery, Fostoria, Hancock County, Ohio.

Notes:

Parker, at No. 2100 Toberman street. Mrs. Lucy Parker, aged 58 years, beloved mother of Orrel A., Fredrick D., and William R. Parker. Funeral today, 2 p.m. at Sutch’s chapel, No.842 South Figueroa street. Interment Inglewood Park Cemetery, Friends invited.
The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California. Thursday, 18 November 1909.

Courthouse Note
Brevities Miscellaneous
All to the son: By the terms of the will of Lucy Parker, a widow, filed for probate yesterday, her estate, estimated to be worth $6500, is left to her son, William A. Parker, and C.M. Wood is nominated as guardian of the boy.
The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California. Sunday, 25 November 1909.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57516019/lucy-drum-parker

Section H, lot 314, grave 5, row 7

Children:

Orral Ardrey Parker was born on 14 Jan 1873 in Hopewell Township, Muskingum County, Ohio; died on 3 May 1965 in Florence, Pinal County, Arizona.
Frederick Dalton Parker was born on 9 Oct 1876 in Fostoria, Hancock County, Ohio; died on 12 Dec 1910 in Los Angeles County, California; was buried in Fountain Cemetery, Fostoria, Hancock County, Ohio.
2. William Roscoe Parker was born on 31 Oct 1890 in Fostoria, Hancock County, Ohio; died on 20 Jun 1978 in Orange County, California.

Generation: 4

John Brown Parker was born on 29 May 1818 in County Down, Ireland (son of John Parker and Margarett McBride); died on 5 Feb 1904 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.

Other Events:

Census: 1850, Hanover Township, Licking County, Ohio
Census: 1860, Hanover Township, Licking County, Ohio
Census: 1870, Hanover Township, Licking County, Ohio
Census: 1900, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California

Notes:

John Brown Parker, age 86 years, died February 5, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. B.F. Thomas, of Los Angeles. The deceased was engaged in the mercantile business in Zanesville for several years, and went from her to Pomona, Calif. in 1874. He lived in the first house ever built in that town; was the first village postmaster and served first as justice of the peace. He lived in Los Angeles since 1885.
The Times Recorder, Zanesville, Ohio. Tuesday, 16 February 1904.

Pomona’s First Postmaster Dies.
John Brown Parker, Pioneer of Los Angeles County.
Occupied First House Built on Present Site of Pomona – Was First Justice of the Peace There. A Staunch Churchman.
John Brown Parker, a pioneer of Los Angeles county, and one of the first American settlers in the Pomona Valley, died in this city early yesterday morning at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. B.F. Thomas, No.1236 East Eighth street.
Mr. Parker was 86 years old at the time of his death, and was a man of splendid physique, possessed of fine health up to his last illness, which was brief. He occupied the first house erected on the site of the present city of Pomona, where he settle in 1874 – an old adobe that is said till to be standing on the outskirts of the city. He was the first postmaster of Pomona, and its first justice of the peace.
Deceased was born in the county of Downs, Northern Ireland, May 29, 1818. In 1830 he migrated to Rochester, N.Y., and later to Zanesville, O., where he was engaged in mercantile pursuits for many years. In that State, in 1845, he married Mary Catherine Perry, who passed away in this city in 1886.
Mr. Parker moved to the present site of Pomona in 1874, and thence to Los Angeles in 1885, where he has since resided. Like most of the natives of the North of Ireland, he was a staunch and active Protestant, and organized and long superintended the first Sunday-school in Pomona. He was a member of the First Christian Church of this city.
Mr. Parker became the father of a family of ten. The surviving children are Mrs. Anna Haun of Chicago, O., and Dr. W.C. Parker, J.H. Parker, Mrs. George J. Dalton, Parry B. parker, Frank M. Parker and Mrs. B.F. Thomas of this city.
Mr. Parker was distinguished among his friends as a man who never tasted tobacco nor whisky nor used a profane word in his life.
Funeral services will be held at the residence of his daughter, No.1236 East Eighth street, tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o’clock; interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California. Saturday, 6 February 1904.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66320333/john-brown-parker

Section G

John married Margaret Ardery on 12 Aug 1841. Margaret was born on 4 Mar 1811; died on 3 Aug 1843 in Ohio; was buried in Bagley Cemetery, Newton Township, Muskingum County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret Ardery was born on 4 Mar 1811; died on 3 Aug 1843 in Ohio; was buried in Bagley Cemetery, Newton Township, Muskingum County, Ohio.

Notes:

Cemetery originally named Muskingum Covenanter Church Cemetery

Name:
daughter of Robert Ardrey and Margaret Gibson

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/206006696/margaret-parker

Children:

4. John Ardery Parker was born on 29 Jun 1842 in Ohio; died on 2 Nov 1900; was buried in Fountain Cemetery, Fostoria, Hancock County, Ohio.

McKeown and Shields Families

Donald Llewellyn Parker