Family, Myrick - Parham PARHAMS MARTHA ELIZABETH PARHAM m. GOODWIN 5 MYRICK, 9 Nov. 1809. There are many accounts written of the PARHAM family but none found so far are authenticated. Much more research is needed to establish a clear line but the following material is based on court records and thus indisputable. Early records of Virginia show land patents to THOMAS PARRUM and THOMAS RIVES in Prince George County, in 1711 and 1717 (Virginia Colonial Records, Vol. 6, p. 186, and to WILLIAM PARRUM, Sr., in Brunswick County, ibid., Vol. 7, p. 137). There are many available records of various THOMAS PARHAMS and WILLIAM PARHAMS (as well as others), but the first record found of STITH PARHAM is in 1758, when WILLIAM 1 PARHAM of Sussex County, Virginia (probably son of THOMAS PARRUM mentioned before), in his will names (3) : Wife: ANN Sons: THOMAS PARHAM, STITH PARHAM It is said, but without proof, that WILLIAM PARHAM married ANN STITH (4) — a good subject for research. In 1771 STITH PARHAM had a land grant of 344 acres in Sussex County, Virginia (5), and in 1773, in same county, Captain STITH PARHAM was the administrator of the estate of THOMAS PARHAM, deceased, and it is assumed that they were the two brothers who were sons of WILLIAM and ANN PARHAM (6). In 1790, in York County, South Carolina, STITH PARHAM of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, bought 375 acres on Crowder Creek from JOHN and JANE HOWE (7). Again that year in York County, STITH PARHAM of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, bought 220 acres on Catawba Creek (8). The will of STITH PARHAM of York County, South Carolina, and Sussex County, Virginia (microfilm Virginia State Library, Richmond) 5 June 1793, reads in part: “to my son, STITH PARHAM, all negroes and all other property in South Carolina ... “to my son, MATTHEW ANDERSON PARHAM ... “to my granddaughter, ELIZABETH PARHAM, daughter of my son, STITH PARHAM.” Executor: MATTHEW ANDERSON PARHAM Witnesses: WILLIAM MASSENBERG, WILLIAM WYNNE, THOMAS ELDRIDGE. In 1798, STITH PARHAM of Hancock County, Georgia, sold the 220 acres on Catawba Creek, and the 375 acres on Crowder Creek, both parcels in York County, South Carolina, and purchased by his father in 1790 (10). The PARHAM line then runs as follows: Page 1 of 4 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, Myrick - Parham WILLIAM 1 PARHAM m. ANN (STITH?) both of Sussex County, Virginia Their children: THOMAS 2 PARHAM: m. ELIZABETH RAINES d- 1773 Their children (will): THOMAS 3 PARHAM JOHN 3 PARHAM NICHOLAS 3 PARHAM ANN 3 PARHAM ELIZABETH 3 PARHAM JANE 3 PARHAM SUSANNA 3 PARHAM STITH 2 PARHAM m. —— Their children: MATTHEW ANDERSON 3 PARHAM STITH 3 PARHAM d. 1806, Georgia. He was born in Virginia m. 1st ELIZABETH THREETE ELIZABETH THREETE 4 PARHAM m. PRESSLEY INGRAM, and from this marriage are descended the HUMBER family of Georgia, and the family of Dr. JOSEPH HILL WHITE, Brigadier General, U. S. Public Health Service, of Washington, D. C., and Milledgeville, Georgia m. 2nd ELIZABETH INGRAM, b. 1763, sister of PRESSLEY INGRAM who married STITH 3’s daughter ELIZABETH THREETE PARHAM. PRESSLEY and ELIZABETH INGRAM were children of BENJAMIN and ELIZABETH (NELMS) INGRAM (II). The lines of the INGRAMS and NELMS, from 1652 to the present, have been traced by Mrs. T. E. Hooker, 66 Poplar St., Memphis 3, Tenn., and are not included in this history. THOMAS STITH 4 PARHAM m. AMEY MYRICK (see MYRICK line) BENJAMIN 4 PARHAM m. CATHERINE MCGHEE ANDERSON 4 PARHAM Robert NELMS 4 PARHAM m. SARA C. COLLIER MARY ANN 4 PARHAM m. 1st BENJAMIN HARVEY m. 2nd SAMUEL TURRENTINE MARTHA ELIZABETH 4 PARHAM (twin) b. 1790 m. GOODWIN 5 MYRICK (line of DOVEDALE MYRICKS) Page 2 of 4 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, Myrick - Parham SARA 4 PARHAM (twin) b. 1790 m. JOHN HILL From the Union Recorder, Milledgeville, Georgia, issue of 3 April 1883. is quoted: “Mrs. MARY ANN TURRENTINE, a sister of Senator HILL’s mother, is still living — about 85. Her home is in Waverly Hall, Harris County. She gave the future senator the name of her first husband, BENJAMIN HARVEY. Mrs. TURRENTINE was a younger sister of Mrs. HILL (SARA 4 PARHAM). General S. P. MYRICK’s mother (MARTHA ELIZABETH 4 PARHAM) was a twin sister of Mrs. HILL. They were daughters of STITH PARHAM of Baldwin County who came from Virginia originally. The twins would have been 93 years old last December. 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