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Topic: Parks, Gers, Pottroff
Conf: Labette County Queries, Msg: 80842
From: Deleted User
Date: 12/14/2004 04:20 PM

I am looking for any information related to the following:

1. Ed Parks, Frank Parks, Harry Parks, William Parks of Mound Valley. According to family stories, the Park(s) family entered Kansas about 1860-63 from Michigan. William Park(s) homestead in the vacinity of Mound Valley. William Park(s) lived there until his death sometime after WWI.

2. Wm Park(s) had 14 children, the youngest was Ed. He married Malinda Alma Pottroff. His older brother Harry married Malinda's older sister, Jesse.

3. By 1923 Harry, Ed, their wives and children had relocated in Okimah, Oklahoma,where they operated a feed store until Ed moved his family to McCamey, TX, in 1925. In McCamey, Ed had a successful radiator/welding shop with Frank Reynolds. By 1934-44, the family had moved again--to Clyde, TX, where they remained. Harry moved his family to Hobbs, NM, where he continued in the radiator business.

4. Malinda and Jesse's mother was "Minnie" Jones Pottroff Gers. "Minnie" died in Clyde, TX, in 1955.

5. I have a Jones family photo taken August 12, 1912. This is a huge family that I know next to nothing about. I have been able to clearly identify several people, but I know very little about the other folks.

6. I found another photo addressed to Malinda from Aunt Milliken and Myrtle Milliken. Auntie is quite elderly. Myrtle appears to be about 55-60 and looks quite like Auntie. I have no other references to these folks.