John Brown Parker
1818 - 1904 (85 years)
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Name John Brown Parker Born 29 May 1818 County Down, Ireland 
[1, 2, 3, 4] Gender Male 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 Died 5 Feb 1904 Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California [1, 3, 4] Buried Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California [1, 3, 4] Person ID I671 McKeown Last Modified 6 Aug 2023
Father John Parker, b. 6 Jun 1791, Rathfriland, County Of Down, Ireland , d. 25 Mar 1870, Dodgeville, Des Moines County, Iowa (Age 78 years) Mother Margarett McBride, b. 9 Jun 1792, County Down, Ireland , d. 2 Dec 1884 (Age 92 years) Married 11 Apr 1815 Ireland [1] Family ID F3 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Margaret Ardery, b. 4 Mar 1811, d. 3 Aug 1843, Ohio (Age 32 years) Married 12 Aug 1841 Children + 1. John Ardery Parker, b. 29 Jun 1842, Ohio , d. 2 Nov 1900 (Age 58 years)Last Modified 23 Oct 2017 Family ID F272 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Mary Catherine Perry, b. 5 Dec 1825, Virginia , d. 28 Feb 1886 (Age 60 years) Married 11 Mar 1845 [1] Children 1. Margaret Ann "Anna" Parker, b. 19 Dec 1845, Ohio , d. 28 May 1915, Los Angeles County, California (Age 69 years)+ 2. William Casper Parker, b. 21 Jun 1847, Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio , d. 8 Jan 1928, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California (Age 80 years)3. James Henry Parker, b. 1 Oct 1848, Ohio , d. 7 Aug 1851 (Age 2 years)+ 4. Mary Emily Parker, b. 10 Aug 1850, Ohio , d. 5 Dec 1886, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California (Age 36 years)+ 5. James Henry Parker, b. 17 Sep 1852, Ohio , d. 10 Feb 1913, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California (Age 60 years)+ 6. Sarah Elizabeth Parker, b. 6 May 1854, Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio , d. 9 Apr 1941, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California (Age 86 years)7. Melissa Yreka Parker, b. 24 Dec 1855, d. 1 Oct 1860 (Age 4 years) 8. Infant Son Parker, b. 12 May 1857, d. 12 May 1857 (Age 0 years) 9. Perry Brown Parker, b. 12 Nov 1859, Hanover, Licking County, Ohio , d. 10 Jun 1951, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California (Age 91 years)+ 10. Francis Marion Parker, b. 16 Nov 1861, Ohio , d. 20 Feb 1927 (Age 65 years)+ 11. Edna Ethelda Parker, b. 19 Nov 1870, Ohio , d. 20 Mar 1912, Hood River, Hood River County, Oregon (Age 41 years)Last Modified 19 May 2019 Family ID F273 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 29 May 1818 - County Down, Ireland 
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 Died - 5 Feb 1904 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California 
Buried - - Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Headstones Parker, John Brown and Mary Perry 66320333_130057164286
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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.
[3, 5] - 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.
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- 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.
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