Newsletter of the Parke Society for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Park (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, Ireland, and Scotland. Some allied families came from France and Sweden. Ancestors immigrated to Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia in the 1600s. In the 1700s, some settled in Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. During the 1800s, some moved to Ontario...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Davies families who came mainly from England and Wales. Focus is on (but not limited to) the families of Nicholas Davies, who was born ca. 1809, and lived in Pebbleton, England. Nick settled in Virginia in 1728, and helped establish Jamestown or Williamsburg. He and his first wife, Judith Fleming Randolph had no children. Later (ca. 1745) he married Catherine Whiting Clayton,...

The first burials were made in 1876 a few days after the battle. Burials and reburials have continued over the years until there are now about 4300 graves at the cemetery. The cemetery was named the Custer Battlefield National Cemetery as early as 1879 although it did not function as a cemetery until 1886. In 1940 it was transferred from the War Department to the National Park Service and in 1946 it became the Custer Battlefield National Monument....

The park covers an area in Clearwater, Beltrami, Becker and Hubbard counties.

Peterson Parks, son of James Parks and Frances Heryford, was born in 1840 in Salisbury, Missouri. He married Sarah Damaris Harris (1838-1929), daughter of John Harris and Sarah Heironymus, in 1863 in Little Rock, Arkansas. They had seven children.