Sarah died before 1880. In that year’s U.S. census of Abbeville County Lewis was a widower. He lived with three adult children and a farmhand. 33 Sarah’s place of burial is not known. James, the second son, was living when Thomas wrote his will in 1856. After that, nothing more is known about James. William, the third son, had died in Texas before Thomas wrote his will. 34 John was the youngest son. The 1830 census enumerated him by gender and age range, male under age five. 35 He was born in 1829 and died in 1904 in Greenwood. Anna Mary was John’s wife. Her family’s name is not known. She was born 25 April 1829 and died 25 September 1874 in Greenwood. John and Anna Mary were buried in Elizabeth’s plot in Greenwood Cemetery with son John Cooksey Parks and an infant daughter. 36 John served in the Civil War, in Co. F, 2 Regiment, South Carolina Infantry. 37 Elizabeth was the youngest child. She was born 26 January 1835 in Lincoln County and died 8 February 1908 in Madisonville, Monroe County, Tennessee. She and first husband J.G. Barratt married in 1854 in Greenwood and had four children. He came from a well-known local family. He served in the Civil War and died 17 September 1862 at the Battle of Antietam. His
33 1880 U.S. census, Abbeville Co., South Carolina, pop. sch., p. 330A, dwell. 119, fam. 125, Louis [Lewis] C. Parks. 34 Abbeville Dist., S.C., Court of Ordinary, Thomas B. Byrd will, Thomas B. Byrd Estate. 35 1830 U.S. census, Lincoln Co., Georgia, Dist. 186 (James McMillon Capt.), p. 60 (penned), Wm [William] Parks. 36 Greenwood Co., S.C., Cemetery Records , 2:63. 37 Compiled service record, John T. Parks, 2nd Lt., Co. F, 2 Regiment, South Carolina Infantry, Civil War; digital images, Fold3 (access through participating libraries : 2 August 2019), citing NARA microfilm publication M267, roll 0158. John W. Parks was an alternate name in service records.
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