Willard E. Parks

    Willard E. Parks was born in Martinsville, November 7, 1855. He was the youngest of nine children born to Perminter M. Parks, a  native of North Carolina. He came to Indiana when seven years of age, and in twenty-two years was married and living in Martinsville with a family growing up around him. He was quite a prominent man in Indiana; his death occurred on July 24, 1867, in his sixtieth year.

    The subject of this sketch was reared in Martinsville, and educated in the public schools. In 1873, he entered Wabash College at Crawfordsville, which he attended for one year. In 1875, he entered Washington and Lee university at Lexington, Kentucky where he stayed for one year. In 1874, he had attended the Christian University at Indianapolis one year. Shortly after he was through college, he began speculating, and is so engaged at present.

    On December 4, 1879, he was married to Miss Fannie Henderson, daughter of Ebenezer Henderson, of Martinsville. They have two children -Myra and Robin. Mr. Parks is a member of the K. of P. Anniversary Lodge, and also of I. O. O .F., Martinsville Lodge, No. 274. In politics he is Democratic.

Source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.