Biographical Sketch of James R. Parr, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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James R. Parr, express and general deliverer of Washington, is a native
of Boyle County, Ky., born in 1840 and the son of John and Elizabeth
(Compton) Parr.  The father was a native of Virginia, born in 1808, and
was a carpenter by trade.  He came from Kentucky to Jackson County, Mo.
in 1852, and in 1858 moved to Johnson County, Mo., and died in 1866, in
St. Charles County, having moved there in 1863.  The mother was born in
Kentucky in 1811, and died in 1865. Of their ten children, nine of whom
are now living, James R. was the fifth child.  He was eleven years of 
age when his parents moved to Missouri, and at the age of twenty he en-
listed in Company A, Fifth Regiment Missouri Infantry Volunteers (Con-
federate army), and was in service four years.  He fought in the battle
of Carthage, Oak Hill, Lexington, Pea Ridge, Corinth, Eureka, Columbia,
Grand Gulf, Bakers Creek and Vicksburg.  At the last named battle he 
was wounded in the right ankle, was disabled the remainder of the war,
yet did service, being on hospital duty the most of the time.  He was
paroled at Macon, Ga., May, 1865.  He then returned to St. Charles Co.,
Mo., and engaged in farming.  June 11, 1868 Mr. Parr married Miss Jen-
etta Painter, who was born in Warren County, Mo., June 23, 1842, and
who bore him two children: S. Price and James R.  In 1870 our subject
came to Washington and commenced teaming, at which business he has 
since continued.  For the past sixteen years Mr. Parr has had charge of
delivering the express of the city, and also does various kinds of 
teaming.  He is an industrious man and a good citizen. 

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