Clara E. Parks

Clara E. Parks

• Father: Edward Parks
• Mother: Mary Franklin b. circa 1863, d. 19 February 1919

• Clara E. Parks was born on 6 August 1899 in Victoria County, Texas.
• Mary Franklin appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Mission Valley, Viictoria County, Texas. Other members of the household included Clara E. Parks, Minnie Mathis, Joseph Edwin Parks, Cornelius Samuel Williams, Versa Parks, Percy Parks, Jasper Parks and Elmer 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 Clara E. Parks, Versa Parks, Percy Parks and Jasper 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.
• Minnie Mathis appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas, at 122 Center Street. Other members of the household included Clara E. Parks, Sarah Mae Tormes?. Clara and daughter Sarah are listed with the surname ?Tormes?
• She married Prince Brown.
• Prince Brown and Clara E. Parks appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in DeWitt County, Texas, at Cuero & Clinton Road. Other members of the household included Sarah Mae Tormes?, Julia Mae Brown and North Dakota Brown.
• She married Harvey Clay.
• Harvey Clay and Clara E. Parks appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas, at Cheapside Road. Other members of the household included Sarah Mae Tormes? and Earline Robinson. Also in the household was grandson J. C. Edwards (age 5). Clara's children Julia Mae, Dorothy and Dakota were enumerated elsewhere in Cuero in the household of their father. Son Johnnie Lee was enumerated in both households.
• Harvey Clay registered for the draft on 27 April 1942 in DeWitt County, Texas, while living with his wife Clara in Cuero, and employed there by the City of Cuero as a day laborer.
• She married Eugene Phillips.
• Clara E. Parks died on 14 June 1983 at age 83 in Texas.
• Eugene Phillips became a widower at her death.
• She was interred at Woodman Cemetery, Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas.
• The following appeared on 25 October 2001 in The Victoria Advocate: (San Antonio) North Dakota ''Baby Boy'' Brown, 71, of San Antonio and formerly of Cuero, died Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2001.
       He was born Sept. 9, 1930, in Cuero, to the late Prince and Clara Parks Brown. He was a member of Little Zion Baptist Church in Cuero.
       Survivors: wife, Mary Louise Edwards Brown; daughter, Mary Louise Brown Khatib of San Antonio; sisters, Sarah M. Robinson of Bishop, Julia M. Scurlock of Del Rio, Dorothy Taylor of Cuero and Clara B. Cooper of San Bernadino, Calif; brother, Johnnie L. Brown of Itasca; and grandchildren.
       Preceded in death by: parents; and brother, Julius Fletcher Brown.
       Services will be 11:30 a.m. Friday at Mount Arriha Baptist Church in San Antonio, the Rev. Jimmy L. Powell Sr. officiating.
       Burial will be at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. Carter-Taylor-Williams Mortuary, San Antonio, 210-227-7311.

• Last Edited: 3 Apr 2017