Person:Isaac Parsons (12)

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Isaac Parsons
  • HIsaac Parsons1766 - 1843
  • WMary Mace1771 - 1851
m. Bef 1792
  1. Catherine Parsons1795 - 1865
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Name Isaac Parsons
Gender Male
Birth[1] 13 Nov 1766 Hardy County, Virginia
Marriage Bef 1792 to Mary Mace
Death[1] 20 Mar 1843 Tucker County, West Virginia
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    Isaac Parsons
    Birth 13 Nov 1766
    Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia, USA
    Death 20 Mar 1843 (aged 76)
    Parsons, Tucker County, West Virginia, USA
    Burial
    Bethel Cemetery
    Holly Meadows, Tucker County, West Virginia, USA

    Isaac Parsons moved to Randolph Cty. after marriage on a farm near the mouth of Horseshoe Run that he inherited from his father. He built a 2 story log house with stone chimneys.
    In 1815 he began the first school in Tucker Cty. It was called the Coburn Run school at Pleasant Vale, five miles from St George.
    His son Nicholas said that every student was in school by dawn and stayed til dusk with each one having 50 recitations per day!
    Isaac founded the Bethel Church.

    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103056387/isaac-parsons