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This is a April 7th 1914 marching planters coin i only all I know i
I do not know a whole lot about it so you know anything about it can you let me know
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This is a April 7th 1914 marching planters coin i only all I know i
I do not know a whole lot about it so you know anything about it can you let me know
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I tried to find anything...closest it came is a Louisiana trade coin for land...but I can not confirm that as solid...there was a large coin sell in 1914 that involved PARSONS, that might be something to check out - good luck. Lori
Hi, Uptown1. :-)
I found this piece from the 20 June 1915 edition of the Huntsville Times about a merchant-planter named R. A. Parsons from Taylorsville:
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51604251/col-r-a-parsons-20-june-1915-hsv/
He's also in this 1908 list:
https://genealogytrails.com/ala/madison/misc_businessmen.html
He also gets a mention in numerous publications on archaeology for having aborginal sites on his property in Taylorsville, e.g.:
From the Google eBook of Aboriginal Sites on Tennessee River by Clarence Bloomfield Moore The Academy, 1915 Page 287 - Alabama - 428 pages :
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DWELLING SITE AT THE MOUTH OF FLINT RIVER Madison COUNTY ALABAMA Immediately at the union of Flint river with the Tennessee is an area of very irregular outline about 135 yards by 85 yards thickly covered with shells on the property of Mr RA Parsons of Taylorsville Ala This aboriginal site has upon it at present various structures and at the time of our visit a part of it was in use as a vegetable garden so that the space open to investigation was somewhat restricted
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From the Google eBook of Archeological Remains in the Whitewater District, Eastern Arizona, Issue 121, Part 1 Page 102 U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 Arizona
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Shell bank 300 feet by 400 feet about 1 foot higher than soil of river bottom and upstream from Mg 16 Sandstone hoe found on surface Sites 13 to 17 are on the property of RA Parsons of Taylorsville and are located on the mainland opposite the center of Hobbs Island
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About the Ingle System:
https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v14n30a17.html
http://www.ohiometaldetecting.com/ingle-system-tokens.html
The tokencatalog dot com site has a listing for a 1918 order shipped to R. A. Parsons' general store from Ingle, but no image:
https://tokencatalog.com/token_record_forms.php?action=DisplayTokenRecord&td_id=357896&inventory_id=339019&td_image_id=&attribution_id=366142&record_offset=0
If you want to be a nice person, you could send them pictures of yours. However, I would recommend taking clearer ones. The ones in this post are bit fuzzy.
I don't know if this is the same person:
From the Google eBook of Garment Manufacturers Index, Volume 2 Chilton Company, 1920 Page 38 - Clothing trade
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TAYLORSVILLE ALA
RA PARSONS & SON
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I think I saw a listing the other date of his marriage, but couldn't seem to find it again just now.
Hi again, Uptown1. :-)
I found that marriage notice again. It was on page 227 of a Google eBook version of "People and Things from the Marshall County, Alabama, Guntersville Democrat 1892 - 1900" by Robin Sterling Lulu.com, May 22, 2016 - History - 394 pages.
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Married, at Hobbs Island on last Wednesday at 3 o'clock, by Rev. J.S. Wood, Miss Hattie B. Chunn to R.A. Parsons, the merchant at Taylorville.
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I couldn't find the exact date, because of the formatting of the references, and a missing page (228) from the Google Preview, but it must have been some time between 17 June and 1 July 1897.
Here's Hattie in the 1940 census:
https://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/Alabama/Hattie-B%20Parsons_237w8w
I also found some snippets about a Parsons Grocery store, but they're on Facebook for the HC Blake Art & History Center, and need a login, so that ain't happening for me:
Here is a Google snippet:
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Parsons Grocery Store, now demolished - Hobbs Island Road. Flooring from this store has been repurposed and preserved as the walls in the H.C. Blake Art...
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You can see a preview of a picture of the grocery store when it was still standing if you use Google Images, and the search criteria "Parsons Grocery Store Hobbs Island Road."
Oh, and this has nothing to do with R. A. Parsons, but it was on the same page with that marriage notice:
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Fond of Chicken. Dick Rollings dispatched a five foot chicken snake a few days ago at the home of John W. Perkins in Claysville precinct. A hen with a brood of young chickens was clucking about the back doorway while the family were at supper, when the clucking ceased and a dismal squawk ended in silence. Dick rushed out and found a snake tightly coiled around the hen, the lower coil holding fast the feet, another coil encircling under the wings, which were elevated until the tips almost touched, and the final coil choking the breath out of the hen's throat. Enough of his snakeship was yet left to allow his head to dart about after the wee chicks. Mr. Rollings seized a long handled shovel and cut off the snake's head. After this the reptile had to be uncoiled in order to release the choking fowl.
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You can follow through on some of those links at Hattie's Ancestry page, and one of them provides a findagrave dot com link for R. A. (Robert Acklin) Parsons:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94264442/robert-acklin-parsons
Thank you if you find out anything else let me know please
Uptown1, You're welcome.
Knowing his first and middle names turned up this:
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/94WY-7QP/robert-acklin-parsons-1871-1947
I was interested to see whether I could locate the site of the former Parsons grocery store. Apparently, it was more or less co-located with Parsons' residence and some other out buildings.
Parsons' property was located on the bank of the Tennessee River, north of the Flint River junction, and at one time had an adjacent railroad freight station:
https://www.abandonedrails.com/norton-to-hobbs-island
From the Google eBook version of "Memphis to Atlanta Corridor from I-65 in North Central Alabama Eastward to the Georgia State Line: Environmental Impact Statement" 2003 Pages 257-260:
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5.3 Section 4(f) Property Area 3 Hobbs Island District During Phase I standing structures surveying of Hobbs Island Road a group of historic structures was identified This group includes the following resources the Gunn I house the Parsons central passage cottage bungalow two commercial buildings one of which is the Parsons Grocery and a series of agricultural outbuildings The Hobbs Island area was designated as a district and is exhibited on figure 5.3
The circa 1880 Gunn I house features two stories wood frame construction side gable roof of standing seam metal interior chimney weatherboard cladding 3/3 bay façade arrangement second floor front façade with central wood panel door flanking 4/4 double hung sash windows two tiered partial width porch with shed roof turned posts and millwork open rail balustrade brick foundation rear onestory ell with shed dormer and attendant wood frame garage with metal siding.
The one story circa 1930 bungalow features brick veneering side clipped gable roof of asphalt shingles interior chimney gables with shinglework front façade with one pair and one triple 3 1 lights wood panel door inset porch engaged roof and brick columns.
One circa 1900 commercial building has side gable roof of metal metal cladding entryway and side wings.
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The Parsons two story circa 1900 commercial building features a front gable roof of metal metal siding second floor front façade with two covered window openings first floor front façade with wood and glass panel door two covered window openings shed roof porch and rear wood frame additions.
The Parsons circa 1890 central passage cottage's salient characteristics are one and one half stories wood frame construction side gable roof of standing seam metal interior chimney front gable dormer with bargeboards and 4/4 light shingle cladding central wood and glass panel door of recent design flanking 2/2 replacement windows partial width porch with shed roof of standing seam metal four tapered piers on brick posts open brick rail balustrade and brick foundation
Three ancillary outbuildings include a barn with gambrel roof hayloft opening transverse passage side sheds and two pole sheds with shed roofs of standing seam metal. Additional outbuildings include a barn with side gable roof of standing seam metal two passages with flanking stalls weatherboard cladding one outbuilding with a combination of metal and wood siding metal roof hay loft openings on south and east façade and one outbuilding with standing seam metal roof and weatherboard siding.
Local landowners provide the following sketch of the local history. The Gunn family is associated with the identified I house. The Gunns were at one time in control of an agricultural operation in the subject area however the Gunns estate has been reduced to the house site according to tax map research and an associated computerized list of property owners kept on file at the Madison County Courthouse in Huntsville.
The current owner of the land related that her husband's family farmed much of the land in the Hobbs Island area. The Parsons central passage cottage served as the farmhouse and the outbuildings are associated with the farm Cotton and corn were the primary crops grown on the land throughout the late nineteenth and much of the twentieth century. The current landowners also owned one of the identified commercial buildings. It has been closed for some time. The original owners of local farms have not engaged in agricultural production for a number of years. In recent years they have leased the land to an operation that grows soybeans. The Hobbs Island Road community is considered eligible for listing in the NRHP based on Criterion C in the area of architecture and Criterion C in the area of commerce. The Parsons Grocery and other commercial building played an important role in the rural economy of the area. From these stores local farmers secured goods food clothing and farming implements that were vital to the every day life in this agrarian setting. The commercial edifices served as an integral link in the distribution of agricultural products as farmers sold their crops to store representatives who in turn shipped the products to market. The commercial structures are architecturally evocative of those that were once located all over rural Madison County but are now extant in diminished numbers. The Parsons farmhouse rates as a sound example of a late nineteenth century central passage cottage. Its integrity is exemplary. It contains subtle stylistic detailing ie the bargeboards that is not typical in similar cottages in the area. The Parsons outbuildings are not exemplary however they are sound integrity wise and represent agricultural architecture of the area. The buildings contribute to the significance of the district as they were integral to the daily operation of the Parsons Farm. The National Register boundaries of the historic district includes the historic resources that represent this late nineteenth to mid twentieth century agrarian community. The fields are no longer representative of a yeoman farming context. The fields are now utilized by large scale agribusiness. The field systems associated with the Parsons farm are included in the historic boundaries figure 5.3 at the request of the State Historic Preservation Officer.
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This could be wrong, but the Parsons property might be just north of the residence and business at 1941 Hobbs Island Road:
34°32'05.3"N 86°32'02.1"W
Madison County School District, AL
https://goo.gl/maps/UshUMsfPMTCeienK7
As to the R. A. Parsons Merchant Planter Ingle System twenty dollar token, I couldn't find another (nor indeed one of any denomination), and the various token enthusiasts would probably be interested, e.g.:
http://www.ohiometaldetecting.com/ingle-system-tokens.html
This Google link to the map on page 258 of the Google eBook of "Memphis to Atlanta Corridor from I-65 in North Central Alabama Eastward to the Georgia State Line: Environmental Impact Statement" from 2003 isn't too hideous (I tried making an HTML hyperlink, using one of my own posts as a test, but it was a no go):
https://books.google.com/books?id=YPg0AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA207&ots=3V-aE1kuPI&dq=parsons%20grocery%20hobbs%20island%20road%20alabama&pg=PA208#v=onepage&q=parsons%20grocery%20hobbs%20island%20road%20alabama&f=false
The map is in the book sideways, so anybody who really wants to scrutinize it would do well to take s snapshot of it, and then rotate the image 90 degrees clockwise.
A couple of last tidbits. :-)
From the same page as the original write-up on R. A. Parsons in the Sunday, June 20, 1915 edition of the Huntsville Times, an advertisement for his business:
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R. A. Parsons
(ESTABLISHED TRADE OF 18 YEARS.)
Planter and Dealer In
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Store and Shipping Point, Taylorsville, Business and Long Dis-
tance Phone No. 3211; Residen, Telephone Huntsville No. 242-J.
The Parsons goods are known for their fine quality and low prices,
especially for cash. This store takes care of you. Make it your store.
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https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51883817/r-a-parsons-advertisement-hsv-times/
To contact the owner/operator of the tokencatalog dot com website:
https://tokencatalog.com/help_contact.php
Wow - looks like you got on the right site for help. Glad to see you found an outlet and good luck. My first love into collection has been and always will be Money. Lori