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Violet Mae “Viola” Parks Joplin
5 Sep 1895 – 15 Dec 1993
| Birth | 5 Sep 1895 |
| Death | 15 Dec 1993 |
| Cemetery | Mills Cemetery Garland , Dallas County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | The Lost Parks of Chariton County Missouri on 25 Jun 2007 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20096261 |
Bio
Violet Mae "Viola" Parks Joplin is the daughter of Columbus Aquillas and Lelah L. Kanatzar Parks. Columbus and Lelah had seven children, five living to adulthood. She was the youngest of the five. Born near Higbee, Randolph County, Missouri at the "Old Doc Christian Place." In certain new found information about Columbus "Papa", I believe all their children were born on that farm. Columbus was working for the "Doc". It is said the "Doc" was more interested in "Horse Racing than Doctoring". The "Old Doc Christian Place" no longer stands. After Columbus, "Papa", passed away in 1912 and before 1919, Violet left Missouri and headed for the panhandle of Texas to be with her sister Cora. (I knew her as "Aunt Corie") Sometime after 1916 and before 1920, after the tragic death of her own son, "Master Marion Lee Gallup", Aunt Corie left the Panhandle for a beet farm in Colorado. This is where their sister Daisy was living. Violet remained in Plainview, Texas. In the 1920 Hale County Texas census, she is listed as Violet Parks, divorced. 1930 census she appears in the Dallas County census with Harris Joplin Sr. married and the two of them are starting a family. Harris was married prior with children. They had his, mine and ours.
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- Daisy Catherine Parks Griffis 1886–1966 FaG
- Cora Amelia Parks Gallup 1887–1982 FaG
- Lucy Ann Parks Sneed 1889–1946 FaG
- Joshua Aquillas Parks 1893–1979 FaG
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