Earl and Henry Parker
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Brothers Earl and Henry Parker on horseback.
Handwritten on back of the photograph is: "after our return hom. myself on 'Babe' on the left."
Earl Hendrick Parker (b. 1869 – d. 1960) was born June 3, 1869 in Missouri and died September 23, 1960 in Prescott, Arizona. At the time of his death, he was a resident at the Arizona Pioneers’ Home in Prescott. He is buried in Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery in Phoenix, Arizona. He was the son of Captain Prosper Powell Parker and Susan F. Parker. He married Nellie B. Parker in 1911; she died in 1938. They had no children.
His brother, Henry Clay Parker (b. 1879 – d. 1966), was born in Missouri; he died March 2, 1966 in Arizona. At the time of his brother’s death, Henry is referenced as living in Phoenix, Arizona.
Earl’s obituary referenced that he “was the foremost early day railroad surveyor in Arizona” and that he surveyed more than 1,000 miles of railroad for the Santa Fe in Arizona. He first came to Arizona in 1888 with his father and settled in Phoenix in 1889.
In 1905, their father. who was the grand high priest of the Grand chapter, Royal Arch Masons and president of the Arizona chapter No. 1, conferred the Royal Arch degree on both brothers.
Sources: Family Search, Arizona Republic obituary for Earl Hendrick Parker.
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