{"id":2499,"date":"2020-10-20T10:09:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T15:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/?page_id=2499"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:57:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:57:49","slug":"j-r-parker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/j-r-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones R. Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jrparker.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2500\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jrparker-210x300.png\" alt=\"J R Parker\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jrparker-210x300.png 210w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jrparker.png 346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Jones R. Parker (Washington County)<\/h2>\n<p><strong>State House:\u00a0<\/strong>1884-1885<\/p>\n<p><strong>Born:\u00a0<\/strong>c. 1850 in Mississippi<\/p>\n<p>Son of David and Hannah Parker. Listed as a farm laborer on the 1870 census and a school teacher on the 1880 census in Washington County.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5839\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5839\" style=\"width: 502px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5839\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/parkersig.png\" alt=\"Signature of Jones R. Parker\" width=\"502\" height=\"118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/parkersig.png 612w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/parkersig-300x71.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signature of Jones R. Parker from a Freedman&#8217;s Bank record, 1873<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5840\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/j-r-parker\/parkerbank\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5840\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5840\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/parkerbank-150x150.png\" alt=\"Freedman's Bank record, March 1, 1873\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/parkerbank-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/parkerbank-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freedman&#8217;s Bank record, Mar 1, 1873<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2536\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/l-k-atwood\/daily84\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2536 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/daily84-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/daily84-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/daily84-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Mississippian, Feb 4, 1884<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jones R. Parker (Washington County) State House:\u00a01884-1885 Born:\u00a0c. 1850 in Mississippi Son of David and Hannah Parker. Listed as a farm laborer on the 1870 census and a school teacher on the 1880 census in Washington County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":53,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2499","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5843,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2499\/revisions\/5843"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}