Person:John Queen (26)

Rev. John Lewis QUEEN

John R.'s Son John Lewis Queen was born 29 June 1830. In 1853/4 he married Lucinda Brown. They had a large family and many of their descendants still live on John's Creek. Luke was a minister of John's Creek Church near east Laporte. He also served as a magistrate in the Caney Fork Township and supported his family by farming. Luke died 1 April 1909. His wife Lucinda died the following year. They are both buried in the Queen family cemetery off John's Creek Rd.

   Luke and Lucinda had eleven Children.  Their oldest daughter Mary Magdeline married Levi Benjamin Parker.  Family Tradition says that her family opposed this marriage.  We believe at this time that Levi and Mary Magdeline were 1st cousins (their mothers were sisters), although it has not been proved.  And considering that Levi was a rouge who later deserted Mary and their children and that Luke was a Baptist Minister, the story seems likely.  Pearl (daughter of Levi and Mary) related that as a child she remembers the Queen family treating Mary's children as "poor relations."
  Mary Magdeline Queen Parker was left with her children to work in the textile mills in Spartanburge Co., South Carolina in the early 1900's.  Levi Parker moved himself back to the mountains of North Carolina deserting his family.  He died om April 1919 ini Jackson County, North Carolina and is buried in an unmarked grave in the Birdtown Cemetery near Cherokee, North Carolina.  The story is that he never had a job; never owned a thing; and that when he died no one wanted to pay for his burial, so that task was undertaken by the Indian agent on the Qualla Reservation.  His granddaughter, Lone Cooper, says that he "got happy" and found the Lord.  In time, we hope!