Since
his honorable discharge from
army duty as specialist in gastrointestinal diseases at the Base
Hospital at
Camp Wadsworth, Doctor Parker has located
at Greenville and now gives all his time to his specialty, in which he
is one
of the foremost authorities in South Carolina. Doctor Parker has
practiced
medicine in this state since graduating from the University of Maryland.
He
was born at Durham, North Carolina,
April 16, 1880, a son of John W. and Jane (Lunsford) Parker of Durham.
He grew
up in the famous tobacco city, was educated in Rutherford College and
the
University of North Carolina, and did his work in preparation for the
medical
profession at the University of Maryland where he graduated in 1905.
The first
three years he practiced in Lee County, South Carolina, and from that
time
until 1914 at Williamston in Anderson County. He had become well
established in
his profession at Greenville when the World War came on, and he
volunteered his
services in the Medical Reserve Corps. Upon being taken into the
National army
he was assigned to duty as specialist in gastro-intestinal diseases at
the Base
Hospital at Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, and was on continuous duty
there from
January 3rd until September 8, 1918.
Doctor
Parker has specialized for a
number of years in gastro-intestinal diseases, and his skill and
success have
brought him well deserved recognition from the medical profession. He
has every
advantage bestowed by experience, personal skill and complete
facilities. These
facilities in his fine suite of offices in the Wallace Building at
Greenville
include the latest Bellevue Model X-Ray machine of the Woppler Electric
Company.
Doctor
Parker is a member of the County,
State and American Medical Associations. He married Miss Andrina
Anderson of
Anderson County, a daughter of George W. and Narcissa (Nesbitt)
Anderson.
George W. Anderson was born in Greenville County, South Carolina, March
7,
1828. He was the son of John Anderson, a native of Ireland, who came to
America
with his parents, Thomas and Nancy (Ewing) Anderson, in his childhood
and
settled in Greenville, Greenville County, where he died in 1837. Of ten
children living at the time of John Anderson's death, Major Anderson
and his
sister are the only ones surviving. Thomas and Nancy Anderson, the
grandparents, spent the remainder of their lives in Greenville County,
the
latter living to be nearly 100 years old. The mother of Major Anderson
was Mary
Terry, who survived her husband a great many years, dying at the age of
seventy. Four sons of John and Mary Anderson served in the Confederate
army;
James, John, David and George W. James died in 1863 from sickness
contracted in
the service; John was captured at the fall of Petersburg and died from
the
effects of his treatment on the boat while on his way to Charleston to
be
released; David survived the war and farmed in Alabama until his death
in 1896.
George W. was educated chiefly at the Cokesbury High School. He taught
for one
year in Alabama, but began a mercantile business in Laurens County,
South
Carolina, in 1851. For several years before the war he was a major in
the state
militia, commanding the upper squadron of the Tenth Regiment of
cavalry. In the
fall of 1863 he entered the army as a private in Company K, Seventh
South
Carolina Regiment of cavalry, commanded by Col. A. C. Haskell, and
served with
it to the close of the war. He was in the battles of Drewry's Bluff,
and
shortly afterward detailed as a courier for Gen. G. T. Beauregard,
serving as
such for some time, after which he returned to his command, and
participated in
the battle of the Crater. He was present at Lee's surrender at
Appomattox.
Major Anderson located in Williamston, South Carolina, in 1868. As a
merchant
after the war he was very successful. He was a very active and loyal
churchman
and at that time when prohibition was very unpopular, he took a strong
stand in
support of it and was instrumental in the publication of a prohibition
paper.
To the poor and needy he was unusually kind and generous. He was
married
February 21, 1860, to Miss Nancy Narcissa Nesbitt, who survived him
nine years,
and died November 27, 1901, leaving seven children, four sons and three
daughters. Her maternal ancestry includes the notable Nesbitt family of
Spartanburg County. She is a granddaughter of James Nesbitt and a
great-granddaughter
of Jonathan Nesbitt of Spartanburg County. Jonathan Nesbitt was a
Revolutionary
hero. At the battle of Cowpens the breech of his gun was shot off by
enemy
fire. He was participant in a number of other battles in North
Carolina, and at
his death was buried with military honors in old Nazareth Presbyterian
Church
in Spartanburg County. The Nesbitts were among the founders of this
historic
congregation. They had located in Upper South Carolina a number of
years before
the Revolutionary war and represented some of the finest of the
Scotch-Irish
stock in that vicinity. One of the prominent members of the family was
Col.
Wilson Nesbitt, who was a member of Congress in 1817-18, and had in
this and otherwise
a brilliant career. He married Miss Susan Tyler DuVal of Washington,
District
of Columbia, and he died at Montgomery, Alabama, to which place he had
removed
from Spartanburg County later in life.
The
two children of Doctor and Mrs.
Parker are: Andrina Anderson Parker and John W. Parker, III.
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