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Submitted: 9/5/09 • Approved: 10/26/11 • Last Updated: 8/21/12 • R231295-G0-S3
Born May 24, 1851, Lebanon, Boone County, Indiana.
Died July 5, 1913, Hopewell, Baxter County, Arkansas.
Son of John Mark and Eliza Stewart Parnell
Married (1) Hester Ann Wilkins.
Married (2) Elsie Clementine Laffoon on March 4, 1888, at Brandsville, Oregon County, Missouri.
From The Baxter Bulletin
July 11, 1913:
STRICKEN DEAD
Frank Parnell, a prominent farmer who lived near Hopewell, died suddenly last Saturday from a ruptured blood vessel. The day before he had been fishing and he said that in coughing he broke a blood vessel. It did not seem to bother him, however, and he plowed all morning. When he came in at noon he was taken with a convulsion and a few minutes after the doctor arrived from Norfork he had expired. He was buried in Hopewell Cemetery Sunday. He leaves a wife and several children.
He was made a Mason in Adams Lodge in the year 1901. He was a member of th Christian Church and a member of Norfork Lodge No. 583 I.O.O.F. who laid his remains to rest in the Galatia Cemetery with their formalities of the order.
Contributed on 9/5/09 by maxparnell
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