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LL Fox Parker

Wife
Beatrice Ida Thomas

Father
William Arnold Parker

Mother
Sue Martha Williamson

Children
Martha Elizabeth Parker
William Barrum Parker
Mary Beatrice Parker
Lilburn Louis Fox Parker II
Thomas Edwin Parker
James Jacob Arnold Parker

Parker Scrapbook

LL Fox Parker was born on 14 Mar 1883, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Family stories indicate LL Fox Parker was named after a neighbor in Alabama. Records indicate that there was a Rev. L.L. Fox, a preacher at different churches in Clarke Co., Alabama. Specifically he was pastor of Spring Hill in 1877 following pastor W. Jacob Parker, LL Fox Parker's grandfather, who was pastor there in 1860.

Fox was a Baptist Preacher who received his education from Howard College, AL; Baylor University, Waco, TX; and Southern Baptist Seminary, Ft Worth, TX.

He married Beatrice Thomas on 14 Jun 1911, in Hix, Burleson, Texas. Read their marriage notice.

Fox died on 21 Sep 1960, LaGrange, Texas. He was buried on 23 Sep 1960, at Pittman Cemetery, Muldoon, Texas.

"When the sight of Jesus is a glorious reality to us--then we know the first power of the Kingdom."

From Fox Parker's Sermon Notebook.


L.L. Fox Parker and Beatrice Parker.

L.L. Fox Parker, Beatrice Parker, Elizabeth Parker, Bill Parker, Foxie Parker, and John Parker (Fox's brother).

Parker-Thomas.

Last Wednesday evening in the Baptist Church at Hix, Rev. L.F. Parker and Miss Ida Beatrice Thomas were united in marriage by Rev. W.S. Lackey, there being in attendance a large crowd of friends and relatives of the contracting parties. The bride is the lovely daughter of Sidney Thomos [sic] of that community where she is well known and has a large circle of friends while the bridegroom is pastor of the Baptist church at Paris, Texas, he having formerly beeen a resident of this county where he has many friends. They left the next day for points in Alabama and will be at home to their friends in Paris after the first of July.

Burleson County Newspaper.

Tombstones at Pittman Cemetery, Muldoon, Fayette County, Texas.

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