Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1908 — Obituary of Addison Parkison. [ARTICLE]

Obituary of Addison Parkison.

Addison Parkison, the son of John G. and Matilda Parkison, was born May 22, 1822, near Urbana, Ohio, and died April 22, 1908, on the train enroute from California, at the age of 85 years and 11 months. In the' spring of 1837, when a boy of 15 years, he came with his father’s family to Indiana, and settled on the old Parkison homestead in Barkley township, where Charleß Moody now resides. Mr. Parkison was a grandson on his mother’s side of Simon Kenton, the noted pioneer and Indian fighter. Of his father’s large family of eleven children only two remain among the living—Mr. Joseph V. Parkison, of Bucklen, Kans., and Mrs. Isabel Parker, of Frankfort, Ind. The following are deceased: Mrs. Eliza Iliff, Mr. Wm. Kenton Parkison, Miss Juliette Parkison, Mrs. Margaret Robison, Mrs. Emma Nowland, Mrs. Jane McCoy, Mr. Frank Parkison, who died In the army and Mrs. Mattie Thompson.

May 5, 1850, he was united in marriage to Miss Barbara Kenton. To them six daughters were born, only two of whom survive—Mrs. Juliette Moore, of Barkley township, and Mrs. Stella Adaline Ketchum, of Rensselaer. The deceased are Mrs. Martha Jane Willey, Mrs. Mary Emma Moody, Mrs. Ida Belle Moody, and Mrs. Laura May Yeoman. Mrs. Parkison died January 16, 1898. Mr. Parkison was a prominent farmer and stockman in the county all through the years of his active manhood, farming, raising and shipping stock, and so was from the earliest years one of the best known men in this and adjoining counties. In November, 1883, he moved to Rensselaer and has resided here continuously ever since, except that during the more recent years he has spent his winters in California. He has been prominent in all of the business interests of our city during his residence here. He was one of the organizers of the First National Bank and has held the presidency of that institution from the beginning of its organization. Mr. Parkison’s second marriage occurred October 5, 1898, to Miss Alda Kenton, who survives him. In early life Mr. Parkison made a confession of faith in Christ and united with the Dißciple Christan church at the socety that was organized and maintaine for many years at the Randle school house in Barkley township. In later years he has attended and contributed to the Methodist and Presbyterian churches. Mr. Parkison was a man of broad sympathies and maintained a substantial interest in everything that pertained to the general good of the community, He was a man of uprighteousness and sterling integrity of character, strictly reliable in every business transaction. As a man of unusual personal honor he could not brook In others any betrayal of confidence or swerving from the right.