Fanny Parker

Brief Life History of Fanny

When Fanny Parker was born on 9 August 1903, in South Carolina, United States, her father, Ellis Roland Parker, was 23 and her mother, Fannie Louise Simpson, was 18. She married Robert Leviticus Burns on 22 January 1929, in Gaffney, Cherokee, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Limestone Township, Cherokee, South Carolina, United States for about 20 years and Gaffney, Cherokee, South Carolina, United States for about 1 years. She died on 16 January 1992, at the age of 88, and was buried in Gaffney, Cherokee, South Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert Leviticus Burns
1902–1979
Fanny Parker
1903–1992
Marriage: 22 January 1929
Eleanor Frances Burns
1934–1996
Margaret Ann Burns
1936–2012

Sources (11)

  • Fany P Burns, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Fanny Louise Parker, "South Carolina, County Marriage Licenses, 1911-1951"
  • Fanny P Burns, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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World Events (8)

1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

1916 · Anthony Crawford Lynched

South Carolina native, father to 13 children, and a local farmer, Anthony Crawford, is lynched on October 21, 1916, in Abbeyville, South Carolina. The lynching is followed after Crawford has an arguement with a white storekeeper.

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name from Middle English parker ‘park-keeper’ (Old French parquier, parchier), an officer employed to look after deer and other game in a hunting park (see Park 1). This surname is also very common among African Americans. It has also been recorded since medieval times in Ireland.

Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish names.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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