Family register
Ernest Eldridge Parker
Ernest Eldridge Parker (1 June 1885 – 17 March 1947) was born in Bolivar, Polk County, Missouri to Ellis Benton Parker, Ellis Benton Parker, Louisa Jane Holloway and Louisa Jane Holloway. He married Ottie Rachel Gharrett Parker. His children were Gladys Parker Ailey, Jan Parker Dodge, Owen Ernest Parker, Mary Parker Lindsey and Kayle Wilbur Parker. He died in 1947, in Shawnee, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma.
Early life
Ernest Eldridge Parker was born on 1 June 1885 in Missouri, the son of Ellis Benton Parker and Louisa Jane Holloway.[2][10][11] A Find a Grave memorial gives his birthplace more precisely as Bolivar, Polk County, Missouri.[3]
Marriage and family
Ernest Eldridge Parker married Ottie Rachel Gharrett, and the couple had six children.[2] Among those listed as their children was Gladys Iola Parker, born in 1908.[6] According to her obituary, Jan Parker Dodge was born on 27 January 1911 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, the daughter of Ernest and Ottie (Gharrett) Parker.[1][5] Owen E. Parker was born on 14 July 1914 in Oklahoma to Ernest Eldridge Parker and Ottie Rachel Gharrett.[9] Mary Parker was born on 14 January 1917 in Chandler, Lincoln, Oklahoma, when her father was 31 and her mother was 26.[8] Kayle Wilbur Parker was born on 21 August 1922 in Chandler, Lincoln, Oklahoma, when his father was 37.[7]
Later life and death
Ernest Eldridge Parker died on 17 March 1947 in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma.[2] The Find a Grave memorial records the place of death as Shawnee, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, and gives his age at death as 61, matching a Fairview Cemetery record of "PARKER, E. E., d. 3/17/1947, age 61".[3] He was buried at Fairview Cemetery in Shawnee, Oklahoma.[2][3]