Obituary
PARKS, Parmelia C. - (from The Prairie Grove Herald] Mrs. Parmelia
C. Parks, widow of the late Wm. B. Parks, died Saturday night at her home
at Big Springs, about eight miles south of Prairie Grove. She was about 62
years of age and had been sick several weeks with typhoid fever. She leaves
three children, Mrs. Inez Carlisle of West Fork, Miss Myrtle Parks and
Clifford Parks who lived with their mother. The funeral services were held
Monday morning at 11 o’clock, conducted by Rev. Spears, a minister of the
Christian Church of which the deceased was a member and the interment
made in the Parks graveyard. [The Springdale News 11/9/1906]