ary Parks, born in Logan County, Kentucky,
May 21, 1854, was a gentle woman of petite stature. She moved to
Sumner County, Kansas, and married our grandfather, William
Lawrence, August 30, 1881, a widower with five children who lived
on the adjoining farm. Hers was the life typical of pioneer women
who accepted a family of motherless children and cared for them
lovingly with four of her own. [Lawrence
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