Parks - Oscar
This is Oscar Parks, another son of Elijah Parks and Eveline Hill. Oscar was born in Linden, Montgomery County in 1830 and died in Tama, Tama County, IA in 1915. Oscar married Mary Ellen Stoddard, the daughter of Joel and Ann (Henry) Stoddard. Ann was a near relation to William Holmes McGuffey, who started the McGuffey Readers school book series.