Morgan Zeno Parker

Morgan Zeno Parker was the fifth child of Seth Joseph Parker: only the third child for his second wife, Matilda Nancy, born Blackwell as his first wife, Mary Amelia Parker (Evans), died just four days after the birth of her second child, a daughter who was given her name Mary Amelia in 1859. Morgan, Mary and Matilda were all from this grouping of my family that were born, lived and died for the most part in Clarke County, Alabama. Morgan Zeno, born five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, is the ancestor from whom I got my middle name Morgan: the name I would always be called and a name that in many ways was integral in defining who I was as a child and later an adult. His father Seth Joseph is from whom the middle name came for Morgan Zeno's third child Inez Seth Parker, my paternal grandmother who I remember well as child when she and my grandfather came to live with us in Philadelphia for a time. The Zeno in Morgan Zeno Parker is given from his father's older brother, Zeno S. Parker. Beyond that I do not have any records for either names. Morgan Zeno married Tennie Adelaid Waite in the fall 1898 and was a farmer until somewhere between 1900 and 1910 he left farming for the timber industry which began to boom. By 1920 he moved with his family to Mobile, Alabama, 109km south. Around 1926 or 1927 Morgan Zeno and his wife Tennie Adelaid Parker (Waite) moved with their daughter Inez Seth Maddox, her husband James Lucion Maddox Sr., and son James Lucion Maddox Jr., Morgan Zeno and Tennie's son Morgan Aubry and Tennie's mother Rebecca Waite (McLeod) moved 1'569km north to Inkster, Michigan in search of employment and life. Five years later after the Ford Motor Company laid off many people they all made the return trip back to Mobile and then back to Jackson, Clarke County, Alabama except for Tennie's mother Rebecca Waite and their son Morgan Aubry who remained behind. Morgan Zeno Parker stayed in Jackson, Alabama for the remainder of his life living in Grove Hill near his brother William Lee and other family members and was buried in Pine Crest Cemetery in 1942. - Morgan Maddox

"My grandfather, Morgan Zeno Parker, died December 3, 1942 on the farm near Jackson, Alabama where I had spent enjoyable summers as a child with him and my grandmother Tinnie. My grandfather died of a heart attack after walking three miles to a store in the city of Jackson and back. My mother, father, sister and I went to be with my grandmother before and for the funeral. " -" In 1937 my father drove me to Jackson, Alabama to visit my mother's parents who had moved there from Mobile earlier that year." - [James Lucion Maddox, Jr.], circa 2001 Philadelphia, PA.

• Residence: Jackson, Clarke, Alabama, United States - 1870
• Residence: Jackson, Clarke, Alabama, United States - 1880
• Residence: Precinct 3 Jackson Jackson village, Clarke, Alabama, United States - 1900
• Residence: Precinct 3, Clarke, Alabama, United States - 1910
• Residence: Mobile Ward 4, Mobile, Alabama, United States - 1920
• Residence :1930 US Census Inkster, Michigan. 4/23/1930

Dwelling/Family Number 449

• James Maddox (head of household)
• Inez Maddox (wife)
• James Maddox Jr. (son)
• Morgan Parker (father in law)
• Tennie Parker (mother in law)
• Rebecca Waite (Grandmother of Inez)

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  • Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Mar 20 2020, 16:04:01 UTC