Thomas Jefferson Parks
b. 1821
- Thomas Jefferson Parks was born in 1821 in Tennessee near Ducktown.
- On Saturday, 22 December 1855, Green Wood recorded in his plantation daily account book: "Bought three young mules, all mares, brought from the cherokee Nation, west of Arkansaw, by Thomas Jefferson Parks."
- A biographical sketch of Thomas Jefferson Parks' son Jeff Thompson Parks was published as "The Life and Times of Jeff Thompson Parks: Pioneer, Educator, Jurist," in Chronicles of Oklahoma (Vol. 3, No. 2, Oklahoma Historical Sociiety, 1952).
- Last Edited: 28 Dec 2013