Toluca, Marshall Co. Illinois, January 16, 1903
Mrs. Louise M. Davison Parks was born in Pensselear Co., N.Y., 1829, of Colonial and Revolutionary Ancestry. She was united in marriage with Mr. William A. Parks, Sept. 19, 1845. In the year 1854 they moved from New York to Belle Plain, Ill., and shortly afterwards settled on the home farm four miles and half west of Minonk, where Rufus Parks now resides. In 1875, Mr. Parks died just twenty-one years after they came to Illinois. Mrs. Parks was the mother of nine children, five of whom survive her, Alvah H., Homer P., and Rufus H. of Minonk, also Mrs. Earnest Memmen of Bloomington and Mrs. Edward F. Coolidge, of Bloomington. All were present at her bed side as she passed from earth's sorrow to the glory of the heavenly life. She leaves to mourn their loss three sons and two daughters, and twenty grandchildren. Also two brothers, D.H. Davison of Minonk, and A.A. Davison , of Minito Ill. |