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According to Egle, Thomas and Henry, under the care of their grandfather, a Puritan clergyman, received a good education. In 1796 they both settled in Dimrock township, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania. In 1800 Thomas Parke returned to Rhode Island where he married Eunice Champlin, a descendent of Geoffry Champlin, who settled at Newport, that State, in 1638. In 1802, Thomas Parke returned with his wife and young Benjamin to their wilderness home on the Susquehanna.
He was a Civil Engineer, a Colonel of miltia, an LL.D. and a man of letters. A little before 1800, he moved to Pennsylvania and settled Parkevale, where he lived until his death. He was one of the Commissioners of Luzerne county for three years and in 1811 was appointed by the Governor one of the three trustees to lay off and organize Susquehanna county.
Alternate place of death is Springville, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, per Find-a-grave.
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Held the rank of Sergeant in 1756 as he participated in the reduction of Crown Point with his brothers Joseph and Benjamin. Also participated in the defense of Fort William Henry and the siege of Louisburg.
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Originally of London, England Settled in Cambridge, Mass 1632. Estate inventory dated Sept 30, 1690. Was divided Oct 3, 1691 and finally settled 1693. Alternate marriage date is December 1, 1653
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"Clara B. Gardner -- Clara Bernice Gardner, 83, of Norman died February 27, 2003 in Norman. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at Havenbrook Funeral Home Chapel in Norman. Robert Gardner will officiate. Interment will follow at the Sunset Memorial Gardens in Stillwater.
Pallbearers will be Robert Gardner, Harry Gardner, Bradley Gardner, Phil Torrance, Steve Schultz and Marv Leyerle. Services under the direction of Haven brook Funeral Home of Norman.
Gardner was born Aug. 12, 1919 in Burlington, Iowa, to Dory Franklin and Cora Mabel Hudson Parsons. She married Emery Elton Gardner on July 22, 1941 in Hannibal, Mo. and they lived for thirty five years in LaGrange, Ill. before moving to Stillwater in 1985. She moved to Norman in 1994 from Stillwater.
She loved playing bingo and spending time with her grandchildren. She was a member of McFarlin Memorial United Methodist Church in Norman.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, two sisters, Lucille Lohmann and Thelma Thompson, and two brothers, Roy and Harry Parsons.
Survivors include two sons, Harry Franklin Gardner and wife, Carolyn, of Averill Park, N.Y. and Robert Keith Gardner and wife, Melody, of Colorado Springs, Colo., one daughter, Sandra Louise Torrance and husband, Phil, of Norman; nephew, Frank Lohmann and wife, Pam, of Illinois; ten grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren."-- 2 Mar 2003, Stillwater (OK) Press
1930 census gives birthplace as Illinois.
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Debbie Schmidt cites St. Louis Probate Records Book B: 410-412, "History of St. Louis County", "Short: An early American Virginia Family" by Lynch, Patterson Family Association Vol II pages 152-158, Florissant Valley Historical Society Quarterly Vol 5: 4-6, Coldwater Cemetery Records, "Minutes of the 1st and 2nd Board of Land Commissioners Missouri 1805-1812, 1832-1835" and info provided by Dan and Marilyn Devaney III, 95-685 Lewanuu Street, Mililani, Hi 96789-2819.
In addition, she quotes from the Revolutionary War Pension in Open Court in St. Louis County, Mo, May 25, 1838: "Soldier states: 'I was born in Pennsylvania, and I think in Bucks county, October 15, 1760; that I have my age recorded in my own family Bible, which is now at my house in this County; that I lived there for 3 or four years after the Revolutionary War, when I was removed to South Carolina and settled in Pendleton County where I resided for seven years. I was then removed to Jefferson county, Ky and settled on Goose Creek nine miles above Louisville where I lived for 18 months. Then I was removed in the month of May 1797 to Louisiana and settled in that part of LA now known as the state of Missouri, 15 miles NW of the City of St. Louis, in the county of St. Louis at my present residence where I have resided ever since.'"
Alternate birthdate is 15 Oct 1760, per Find-a-grave.
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Col. Albert Pawling was an officer in Washington's army, subsequently the first Mayor of Troy.
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Arthur Leebrick Pearce's career connection has been the family firm of Zeb Pearce and Sons, a long-established Phoenix produce business of growing scope, whose efficient management and ethical standards of merchandising have won it many friends in the capital-city area. Mr. Pearce is president and general manager of the firm's wholesale liquor branch, and also has an interest in other family businesses at Mesa.
Arthur attended the public schools of Mesa, and graduated from high school in that city in 1929, and for one year was a student at the State College at Tempe. At the conclusion of that year, however, ill health forced cancellation of his college plans, and he did not completely recover until about three years later.
At that time he entered the family business, Zeb Pearce and Sons, gaining experience in its produce, wholesale and retail feed, and wholesale liquor operations In 1938 he moved to Phoenix, where he assumed management of the liquor sales department as president and general manager. He also has an interest in the other two family businesses at Mesa, including the Vita-=Gro Mills, operated under Pearce management. In 1954, he was elected president of the Arizona Wholesale Beer and Liquors Association.
During the concluding years of World War II, 1944-1945, Mr. Pearce served in the United States Navy as a radar operator, second class, and spent fifteen months in the Pacific. He served aboard CVE-55.
Active in the community organization, he is a member of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, the Paradise Valley Country Club, the post of the American Legion, and the lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks and the Loyal Order of Moose. He is an Episcopalian in religious faith, and a Democrat in this politics.