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[Parker Family Portrait, Clarke and Parker House]

Description: Photograph of the Parker family posing together for a photograph at the Sallie Ann Clarke and Robert Henry Parker house in Abilene, Texas. From left to right, in the front row, seated on the porch steps: Lavinia Parker McDaniel and Nellie Parker Jack. From left to right, in the middle row, seated on wooden rockers: Hallie Parker Adams, Sallie Ann Clarke Parker (mother), and Bettie Parker Kelly. From left to right in the back row, standing: Sallie Parker Willis, Neva Parker Woodward, and Margare… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Higginbotham

[Clarke and Parker Home]

Description: Photograph of the Sallie Ann Clarke and Robert Henry Parker home in Abilene, Texas. This structure was the first two-story frame house in the town, located at the corner of 2nd Street and Butternut. The house contains a covered porch with a balcony above, with two chimneys. A gutter along the roof carries water to a cistern for rainwater at left. A white picket fence demarcates the house's lawn. The Parker family sits on the porch in front of the main door, and a small child looks out the windo… more
Date: unknown

[Parker Family Portrait]

Description: Members of the Parker family, who were living at the time this photograph was taken, are arranged in two rows. From left to right, along the front row, seated: Hallie Parker Adams, Sallie Ann Parker Willis, Sallie Ann Clarke Parker (mother, holding a book), and Bettie Parker Kelly. From left to right, along the back row, standing: Lavinia Parker McDaniel, Margaret "Mag" Parker Cox, John Todd Parker, Nellie Parker Davis, and Neva Parker Woodward. A further list of Parker family members, includin… more
Date: unknown

[McDaniel Home, Abilene]

Description: Photograph of the first home of Lavinia Parker McDaniel and George W. McDaniel in Abilene, Texas. This Victorian-era home, located at 774 Butternut, was built with lumber from the lumberyard of Robert Henry Parker, Lavinia Parker's father. The house has two stories, though the front is obscured by tall bushes and trees. A dormer emerges from the central hip roof which forms two gable ends in the front and one on each side of the house (one visible, at left). The house has two chimneys, and is b… more
Date: 1898

[Photograph of an Early Day Picnic]

Description: Photograph of an early day picnic near Abilene, Texas. Roberta Parker, a school teacher and a daughter of Sallie Ann Clarke and Robert Henry Parker, stands in the back row, far right (with a hat?). A man to her left holds a tall bamboo fishing pole. Musical instruments are held by three people, including guitars and a banjo. A woman seated in the front row with a bonnet holds a shotgun in her lap; to her left, a man holds a bottle of beer on the rug.
Date: unknown

[Parker and McDaniel Brick Home]

Description: Photograph of the Lavinia Parker McDaniel and George W. McDaniel brick home at 774 Butternut, Abilene, Texas. The house is a brick two-story building, with a raised covered porch extending from the main structure with steps. The upper floor windows are lined with shutters. A pile of dirt is at center, next to bare trees and shrubs. A man in a top hat holds a baby at center, to the left of the covered porch. The McDaniel house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Date: [1924..]
Creator: The Fox Co.

[Robert Parker Kelly, Jr., Riding a Pony]

Description: Photograph of Robert "Bobby" Parker Kelly, Jr. (1931–2007), grandson of Bettie Parker Kelly, riding a pony..He wears a hat, a vest, and long chaps with a star and the numbers "2001" on them. The pony stands on the curb of a street, with a sidewalk, a house, and its lawn in the background behind Robert, who is smiling.
Date: July 1935

[Parkers at Funeral, First Presbyterian Church]

Description: Photograph of the Parkers during the first funeral held at the First Presbyterian Church in Abilene, Texas. They stand on the threshold of the uncompleted south entrance to the church, with temporary wooden planks installed between short brick walls. Sallie Ann Parker Willis stands with two of her children at left. Her mother, Sallie Ann Clarke Parker, stands second from right, and Margaret Parker Cox stands at far right, seated against the right short brick all. All face forward.
Date: 1923/1924

[Clarke and Parker Home, Side View]

Description: Photograph of the Sallie Ann Clarke and Robert H. Parker home in Abilene, Texas. The house is a two-storied building with a hip roof and vines and trees obscuring walls and windows for privacy. A hedge of bushes grows along the road at right. Under a small grove of trees and shade sits Sallie Ann Clarke Parker in a wicker rocker, wearing a black dress and surrounded by family.
Date: unknown

[Parker Home: Margaret, Sallie, and Samuel]

Description: Photograph of the west side of the Sallie Ann Clarke and Robert H. Parker home. At left stands Margaret Parker Cox (1860–1940) in a light-colored gown. At center, seated in a white wicker rocker, is Sallie Ann Clarke Parker (1832–1924). At right stands Samuel Roberson Cox, Sr. (1855–1942), Margaret's husband, in a coat.
Date: unknown

[Portrait of Letitia Barnett Willis]

Description: Photograph of Letitia Barnett Hutchison Willis (1828–1925), wife of Dr. Thomas L. Willis. This portrait is a headshot of her. She wears a high-collared shirt with a pendant attached to her collar, and looks to the left. Letitia and Thomas are buried in IOOF Cemetery, Denton, Texas.
Date: unknown
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