Mary Isaacs

Notes:

Said to married, in 1821, Matthew Parker. Matthew was the oldest son of Jesse Parker, who also came to Texas from Louisiana in 1822 and settled in Joseph Vehlein's colony. Jesse represented the Sabine District as one of 56 elected delegates to the Convention of 1832, which convened at San Felipe de Austin on October 1. Matthew Parker received a grant of league and labor of land, and several additional grants, one being for his service in Captain E. A. Collins' company of Sabine Volunteers. His name appears on a roll fo this company, dated July 8, 1836. The additional grants were in Shelby, Harrison, and Cherokee counties. After Mary Isaacs Parker died in 1845, Matthew Parker married second Elizabeth Lowe, daugther of Isaac Lowe of Sabine County. (John W. Clark, pp. 38-41).