CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - AMOS PARKER
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CEDAR COUNTY NEWS    Oct. 12, 1916

Amos S. Parker Dead

Was father of Geo. I. Parker and Mrs. Frans Nelson

            Amos S Parker, father of Geo. I. Parker and Mrs. Frans 
Nelson died in a private hospital at Omaha Tues. aged 82 years. The 
body was brought to Hartington Wednesday evening and fuenrl will be 
held from the Presbyterian church this afternoon.  Rev. C.B. Leeper 
officiating. Interment made in the Hartington Cemetery.

            Amos Sutton Parker was born at Dalton, NH on April 29th, 
1834. His great grandfather Reuben Parker of Swanzey NH was with 
Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold at the capture of Ticondaroda; fought 
under John Stack at Bennington, and witnessed the surrender of 
Burgoyne at Saratoga.  Mr. Parker’s maternal grandmother was a first 
cousin to General Israel Putnam of Revolutionary fame.

            Young Parker was reared on a farm and received a common 
school education. Later Parker set out for the west and was a member 
of a surveying party in northern Wisconsin. On May 5, 1857, Mr. Parker 
set out from Dubuque, IA with two yoke of oxen for Cedar county, Neb. 
Which had been created by the territorial legislature in Feb. Mr. 
Parker arrived in company with Warren Saunders  on June 17, they 
found Henson Wiseman in the timber on the Missouri bottom. The two 
went on to Wacuapona, where the Platte Saunders was living in a tent. 
These four were the first four settlers in Cedar county. 

            On Dec. 31, 1857, Amos S. Parker was married to Mary Loud 
at her home in Dalton NY, at the time of the Wiseman family massacre, 
Mr. Parker became alarmed for the safety of his wife and two children, 
and sent them to the east for two years. Amos S. Parker served for 
several years on the board of County comissioners of this county. He 
has been a widower some two years, and has resided in Omaha since the 
summer of 1914. Mr. Parker was a member of the Masonic order and united 
with the Congregational church in middle life. He was a man of sterling 
integrity and of industrious and correct habits. He passed through the 
perils of frontier life, the scourge of the Rocky Mountain locust, 
floods, and prairie fires. Bt he was always the same jovial disposition. 
Four children survive him: William, who lives with Geo. I, well known 
to the people of this city, and county; Mary Olive, wife of Frans 
Nelson; and Sarah Nohr who lives in Colo.