Parker, John T.

Born: 1799-XX-XX Lexington, Kentucky

Flourished: Kentucky

John T. Parker was Mary Lincoln's maternal uncle and a Kentucky physician. In 1824, he married Jane L. Allen. In 1850, he was practicing medicine in Fayette County, Kentucky, and owned real estate valued at $40,500. Jane Parker died, and in October 1852, John married Francis M. Taliaferro. In 1860, John was practicing medicine in Ballard County, Kentucky, and owned real estate valued at $20,000 and had a personal estate of $6,000.

Abraham Lincoln to Mary Lincoln; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Fayette County, KY, 154; Kentucky, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1802-1850, 8 January 1824, Shelby County (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 1997); Kentucky, U.S., Marriage Records, 1852-1914, 26 October 1852, Campbell County (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2007); U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Tharps, Ballard County, KY, 120.