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Franklin Parker is a prominent planter of Clay Township, Howard County, Ark., owning 200 acres of very valuable land, and devoting his entire attention to agriculture. His parents, Isaac Parker and Miss Betsy Brooks, both of North Carolina, were married in that State about 1816. They had five children, all of whom are dead except the subject of our sketch. He passed his youth in North Carolina, attending school there, and leaving home when twenty-one years old, when he commenced to farm for himself. March 16, 1843, he was married to Miss Sarah Buck, a daughter of James and Betsy (Moore) Buck. She was born March 7, 1824, and is still living. They have had nine children: Fanny, James A., Isaac W., Patsy A., Tennessee, Mary, Richard F. and John A. The family moved to Howard County, Tenn., in 1848, remaining there thirty years, at the end of which time they came to this county, buying 200 acres of land below Centre Point. After three years, they sold their property, moving at the same time to the farm where they now reside. In politics Mr. Parker is a Democrat. Before the war he was a Whig. He enlisted in 1862 in the Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry, under Gen. Forrest, and fought in the battles of Franklin, Corinth, Harrisburg and Oxford, being slightly wounded by an accident, and leaving the army in 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Parker are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.