Tombstone Tuesday - Samuel Parkin

REV. SAMUEL PARKIN

[this is the only legible inscription I can read on this stone]

PARKIN

REV. SAMUEL                 ELIZABETH TUCKWILLER

APRIL 21, 1778                NOV. 8, 1779

JAN. 19, 1854               JULY 28, 1867

FOUNDER OF MT. VERNON METHODIST CHURCH

FIRST BURIAL IN CEMETERY

The so of pioneers, James PARKIN and Elizabeth BONDURANT, Samuel married Elizbeth TUCKWILLER on 15 Sept. 1812 in Greenbrier County [West] Virginia. He was a Methodist minister, and the couple had at least 9 known children:

Cathy  [1813-1813]
Joseph [1814 - 1817]
Nancy Morgan [1815 - 1892]
Elizabeth Deskins [1817 - 1905]
John Adams [1819 - 1887]
Ballard Smith [1819 - ?]
Rachel [1823 - 1857]
Margaret Smith [1826 - 1891]
Catherine [1826 - 1902]

It is through their daughter, Margaret Smith Perkins, that I am descended. Margaret was my great-grandmother. Margaret married William McHarvey Bean [1832-1890]. Their son John Monroe Bean [1866-1954] was my grandfather.

Rev. Samuel Parkin and his wife, Elizabeth Tuckwiller Parkin, are buried at Mt. Vernon United Methodist Church cemetery, in the upper ["old"] cemetery, located to the rear to the church.

Samuel was a founder of the church, and was the first burial in the cemetery.