Joseph Reeves Parks

PARKS, Joseph R. born in 1830, was killed in January 1863. He was born at Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, the son of Walter Davis and Mary Park Parks, the daughter of J.H. Park. He was a Democrat, a Presbyterian and Mason. He was a Captain in the Confederate Army. In 1855, he married Jane Poston, daughter of William C and Bersheba Tilly Poston of Cincinnati, Arkansas, in Washington County, Arkansas. They were the parents of three girls, Mary B., Martha Jane and Lizzie C, that all married and were all living in Texas. [1911 Arkansas Confederate Census}