St. Clair County Obits

JAMES PETER PARK

James (Peter) Park died at his home in Lowry City, July 20, 1925, after a lingering illness of some months, due to hardening of the arteries, kidney trouble and declining years. The deceased was born in Benton county, Mo., August 13, 1845. He was married to Mary E.C. Hubbard November 19, 1868. To this union five children were born--two boys and three girls. David Francis died in infancy and the remainder survive and were present at his obsequies and are as follows: Zara Park of Lowry City, Bessie E. Greenwell of Lowry City, May Kelley of the same place and Hattie Johnson of Kansas City.
He was converted and united with the Christian church at Park Grove in the year 1866 (at a school house near the present church), and he was one of the charter members of the present church when it was organized and is the last of the charter members. He lived on a farm near Mt. Zion for some time after marriage and the remainder of his farm life was spent on the farm now occupied by his son Zara, which is situated halfway between Lowry and Mt. Zion, living in that same community for 45 years and the last 13 in Lowry City. He was an official in the Park Grove church until his removal to Lowry City, where he later transferred his membership. When the Civil War broke out he championed the cause of the union and served three years in the M.S.M. Cavalry, Co., C. 7th Mo. Reg., and received an honorable discharge April 7, 1865. It is needless to say, that for Brother park to do his duty to his neighbor, country or his God, it was only necessary for him to know it. His funeral services were conducted by H.E. Carpenter of Osceola at the Lowry City Christian church at 2:30 p.m. July 21st, in the presence of a large concourse of relatives and friends, after which the remains were interred in the Park cemetery. He leaves his devoted wife, and four children named above, three brothers-Dave and Seigle of Deepwater and Chillian of Lowry City; also five half-brothers-Samuel and Milo of Deepwater, George of Mt. Zion, Overton of Oklahoma, and Noah (Doc) of Warsaw, besides five sisters-Perlina Brown of Oregon, Emma Bunch and Samantha Bunch of Lowry City, Hannah Terry of Osceola, Mary Stewart of Deepwater and Carrie Edwards of Deepwater-a half sister, besides a large number of relatives and friends who will greatly miss and mourn his departure.

Submitted by: Sandee Hubbard