Inscription
Born January 1809 in Massachusetts, he was a lawyer who came to Cabell County shortly before the Civil War. A Unionist, he fled when A. G. Jenkins called for his arrest. From 1861 to 1863, he was a delegate to the constitutional convention for the new state, and he supported emancipation. Parker published his wartime accounts of WV statehood in 1875.
He died 1881 in Wellsburg.
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More markers in Cabell
Barboursville State Hospital
Barboursville, WV
Established as Barboursville Unit of Weston State Hospital, 1942, on property once used by Morris Harvey College.
Mud River Covered Bridge
Barboursville, WV
Erected in 1875 by order of the Cabell Co. Court.
Cabell County/Mason County
Formed, 1804, from Kanawha.
General Jenkins
Greenbottom, WV
"Greenbottom" (N.E.) was home of General Albert G. Jenkins, brilliant Confederate officer, mortally wounded at Cloyd's Mountain in 1864.
Savage Grant
Boundary line of land grant surveyed under Washington's orders for John Savage and Companions for service in French and Indian War.
