Maj. Alexander Parker and Rebecca Blair

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Husband Maj. Alexander Parker ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 1753 - Cumberland Co, PA 3 5
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1792 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA
         Buried: 

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         Father: John Parker (1716-Bef 1785) 3 4 5 6
         Mother: Margaret McClure (      -1792) 3 4 5 7

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       Marriage: 1783 8

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Wife Rebecca Blair ^{3 4 5 9}

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           Born: 1753 8
     Christened: 
           Died: 23 Apr 1826 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 8
         Buried: 

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         Father: William Blair (      -      ) 8
         Mother: 

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   Other Spouse: Charles McClure (1739-      ) 9 10

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Children

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1 F Margaret Parker ¹⁰

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           Born: 1784 10
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

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2 M John Parker ¹⁰

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           Born: 1786 10
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

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3 F Mary Parker ^{10 11}

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           Born: 1789 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 10
     Christened: 
           Died:  - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Gen. William Robinson (1785-1868) 10 12 13
           Marr: 3 Jul 1810 11

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4 F Anne Alexander Parker ¹⁰

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           Born: 1791 10
     Christened: 
           Died: Apr 1809 10
         Buried:  - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA

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General Notes: Husband - Maj. Alexander Parker

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He was a distinguished officer of the Revolutionary War.

He was an early associator at the outset of the war of the Revolution; was commissioned second lieutenant of the Sixth Pennsylvania battalion, Col. William Irvine, January 9, 1776; promoted first lieutenant, October 25, 1776; served as captain of the Pennsylvania Line in the Seventh regiment, March 21, 1777; transferred to Fourth Pennsylvania, January 17, 1781, and subsequently to Second Pennsylvania, January 1, 1783, serving until the close of the war.
He was one of the original members of the Society of the Cincinnati. He laid out the town of Parkersburg, West Virginia, at the mouth of the Little Kanawha, where he had extensive land possessions.
In the old graveyard at the Meeting House springs, two miles northwest of Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, there is a large slab covering the remains of Major Parker and two of his children, bearing this inscription: Sacred to the memory of Major Alexander Parker and his two children Margaret and John.
There are no dates given of birth or death.

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General Notes: Wife - Rebecca Blair

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When she married McClure, she was the widow of Gen. Parker, of the War of 1812. [HCC 1886, 384] But this seems unlikely given the dates known for various members of the family.

She died suddenly while in attendance at service in the Associate, or Seceder church, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 579, 583.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 34.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 985.

4 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 18.

5 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 579.

6 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 35, 76.

7 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 35.

8 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 583.

9 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 384.

10 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 584.

11 —, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania of the Nineteenth Century (Philadelphia, PA: Galaxy Publishing Company, 1874), Pg 650.

12 —, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania of the Nineteenth Century (Philadelphia, PA: Galaxy Publishing Company, 1874), Pg 649.

13 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1096.