Versa Parks

b. 11 January 1891, d. 1 January 1944
  • Versa Parks was born on 11 January 1891 in Mission Valley, Victoria County, Texas. According to his Social Security application and his death certificate, his parents were Ed Parks and Mary Franklin.
  • He was known as Vercy.
  • Mary Franklin appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Mission Valley, Viictoria County, Texas. Other members of the household included Versa Parks, Minnie Mathis, Joseph Edwin Parks, Cornelius Samuel Williams, Percy Parks, Jasper Parks, Elmer Parks and Clara E. Parks.
  • Mary Franklin appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas, at Center Street. Other members of the household included Versa Parks, Percy Parks, Jasper Parks and Clara E. Parks. enumerated next to the household of her daughter Minnie. Mary is identified as Mary Davis, age 40, divorced, with seven of nine children living. Son Joe Albert Mathis, born in 1909, is unaccountably absent from the household.
  • He was employed at farm work, according to the 1910 census.
  • Versa Parks registered for the draft on 5 June 1917 in DeWitt County, Texas, while living with his wife and one child on Broadway in Cuero, and employed there by Dr. J. W. Burns.
  • Versa Parks registered for the draft on 27 April 1942 in Texas while living with his wife Tennessee on Buchel Street in Cuero, unemployed.
  • Versa Parks died on 1 January 1944 at age 52 in Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas, . Informant was his wife Tennessee.
  • He was interred at Woodman Cemetery, Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas.
  • Research Note: According to Mary Parks' death certificate (informant her daughter Minnie Mathis), her father was Frank Franklin.
         According to Joseph Parks' death certificate (informant his wife Dora), his parents were Mary Franklin and Ed Parks.
         On his death certificate, Cornelius' name was recorded as Cornelious Samuel Williams Parks (informant his wife Ollie), and his parents were Mary Franklin and George Williams.
         According to Versa Parks' death certificate (informant his wife Tennessee), his parents were Mary Franklin and Ed Parks, and his Social Security application Mary Franklin and Edward Parks.
         According to Percy Parks' death certificate (informant his daughter Forest Davis), his parents were Joe Parks and Mary.
  • Last Edited: 1 Apr 2017