When Elizabeth M Parks was born about 1825, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Andrew Caldwell Parks, was 23 and her mother, Sarah Franklin, was 15. She married Cyrus Samuel Thomason on 8 April 1847, in Effingham, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Effingham, Illinois, United States in 1860. She died in 1865, in Effingham, Effingham, Illinois, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Porter Cemetery, Jackson Township, Effingham, Illinois, United States.