Ezekiel Parks Greene Co Ga
Ezekiel Evans Park born 10 May 1757 Prince Edward Co Va died30 Dec 1826 Greensboro, Greene, Ga
He was the son of James Park died1769 andMary Fulton died1774
His siblings:
Joseph19 Jan1735 Prince Edward Co Va-6 Jun 1808 married Elizabeth Esther Sankey (4 Children)
Margareta 1750 Pr Ed m Douglas Watson Ref Lt Va 5 children
James DanielRev Sol b1756 Pr Edd 27 Nov 1823 Greene
Co. Ga m #1 Mary Sankey-sister of Elizabeth 2 children
Mary b 20 Jan 1769 Buffaloe, Pr Ed m Robert Hannah
Catherine m Andrew Wallace
Ezekiel graduated from Wm. & Mary College in Williamsburg.
1776- he signed a petition with others for religious liberty. Pvt Amer Rev.under Gen Nathaniel
Greene as army dodged Lord Cornwallis. Faught in battles at Cowpens in SC and Kings Mtn in
NC...with Brother Lt Joseph Park..were wounded at Whitsells Mill Mar 6, 1781..Wounded again at
Battle of Guilford Courthouse in NC. Fritnd Hugh Harelson risked his life to cary Ezekiel from
battlefield.
Ezekiel may have been married earlier-
He is shown w/ dtr Margaret Park Newton Bailey born 23 Nov1771 Md. at http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2700815&id=I2082http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2700815&id=I2082would have to be another marriage. She marriedJohn Newton 1785 and Stephen Bailey b 1764 Fauquier Co Va 25 Nov1827 Jasper Co. Ga. And Charles Webbb 17 Apr1767 Halifax Co Va17 Dec 1846 Butts Co Ga.
1782 May 1 Joseph Parks sold to his brother Ezekiel 200 acres “on upper side of where I now live” which was on Fort
Creek. (ibid, 447)From Genealogies of Virginia Families – from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Joseph, James & Ezekiel came to Greene Co. Ga.
1793Greene Co. Ga. -Ex of will of James Sansom Sep 8..along with wife Martha "Patty" (Mrs. Sansom)
He married at 37- 18 Jun1794 Greensboro, Greene, Ga.
1796- Postmaster of Greensboro Oct 1.
1798- Sep 15,he was appraiser.
1800-1802- Clerk of Superior Court Again
1802 State Senator from Greene..influenced state leg. in 1802 to re-incorporate the Oconee
Navigation Co with large number of stockholders, including himself...James, and Richard S...and
Minor..Parks.
1803- Ezekiel E. Park & Jonathan Opsycksold to James Cunningham- for $2100 575 acres on
Oconee River Recorded 5 Jun. Wife Susannah relinquished dower. 4-180-1
1804 owned 200 acres in Camden Co Ga. 1805 Land Lottery drew 512 acres
1820 Census= Greene Co. Ga. (Next door to John Armour)
Ezekiel E Park
males 2 0/10
1 10/16
2 16/45
2 engaged in agriculture
females 1 0/10
1 10/16
1 16/45
1826 He died in Greensboro, Greene, Ga 30Dec.
His children-according to what I find are:
Joseph
Thomas Peyton m Caroline Russell
James mFrances Wingfield
Richard
Sarah Catherine m Eugene Van Valkenburg
Lucinda m Peter Jones Williams
Ezekiel E d Oct 1841 Russell Co Al m Frances A Redd
Griffin mLouise Starke
This is not my family- I have a Musgrove connection through his brother Joseph.
Ezekiel is the next door neighbor of my John Armour in 1820 Greene. I was looking for more on the children-and found nothing posted...so thought I'd share what I have.
Ms. Gerry Hill-Albany Ga.