Addana 'Addie' Musgrave Parker

 
photos from Ancestry.com

b. March 14, 1868 Tilden, Texas
d. November 20, 1946 Tucson, Arizona

 Addie Musgrave and her twin brother Burrell were born in Tilden, Texas in 1868; he died in 1871. By 1900, she had settled in Santa Cruz County in Arizona and there, in July 1905, she married William Andrew "Uncle Billy" Parker, Jr. who was born in 1860 in San Luis Obispo, California. William was widowed (Eva Landers Parker was his first wife) and he brought to the marriage five children ages 13-23: James Arthur 'Jim ', John L., William Llonzo, Elmer Emmitt and Eunice for whom Addie became mother. In 1910, she was appointed as the third postmaster of the Canille Post Office which she operated out of her home.

  Addie's husband William, Jr. was one of six children of William Andrew Parker, Sr. who was from Tennessee and moved with his wife to California in the 1850s. The family moved to the San Rafael Valley around 1881 and a couple of the sons homesteaded there; several of their homesteads were exchanged with the US Forest Service in the early 1960s for the construction of Parker Canyon Lake. William, Jr. died in May 1946 and is buried in Nogales City Cemetery; Addie died in November of 1946 after falling and breaking her left hip. Five of their children survived her.

Written by Corbin Smith from Ancestry.com, Newspapers.com, and Alison Bunting article in the Patagonia Regional Times.

Click below to return to:
History
A-D
E-H
I-P
Q-Z

SCS 11/26/24