Parker, Joseph Josiah (1842-1922)

Family

Joseph was born abt1842 at Tipton, Staffordshire, to parents Joseph Parker, a miner (1851), and Mary Ann Speed. He was baptised on 16 January 1842 at Tipton.

Census returns identify the following occupations for Joseph.

1861 coal miner & Methodist local preacher
1871 PM minister
1881 dairyman
1900 preacher
1910 clergyman

Joseph emigrated to USA arriving on 14 May 1883. After some time in New York, he moved to Nebraska.

He married Elizabeth Sadler (1845-1899) in the summer of 1868 in the Great Boughton Registration District, Cheshire. Records identify ten children.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) (b1869)
Charles Sadler (1870-1952) – a dentist (1915)
William Belmont (1871-1934) – a literary editor
Martha Jane (1873-1979) – married Ralph J Pugsley, a carpenter (1930), in 1903
Annie (b1877) – married Oscar S Hansen in 1905
Edith M (b abt1880)
Frederick James (b1881)
Florence (1885-1973) – a teacher (1910); married Robert G Kyle, a farmer, in 1914
Emma J (b abt1887)
Joseph Speed (1890-1972) – a book-keeper (1910); a dentist (1930)

Joseph died on 19 June 1922 at Orange, California, USA.