Will Peter Parsons

  General Notes:

(Individual note) According to Mary Hester Parsons Hayman, her great grandfather ran a water mill near Pittsville.
(Individual note) According to Mrs. Shannonhouse, Peter Parsons 5-17 son of John 4-4 had four children, Joseph Truitt, Mina Smyly, Anne Maria and Peter Ritchie, for whom Isaiah Smith was appointed guardian when they were orphaned in 1823. He would have been 61 years old when he died, leaving four young children, certainly an unusual circumstance. A. Wootten believes that the Peter Parsons father of these young children must have been another Peter Parsons.
(Individual note) I identify Peter Parsons as son of John based on the tradition given by Aunt Hes that her great grandfather's ancestor was named John Parsons. She also identified a brother of her great grandfather as Billie Parsons, whom Etha Parsons Yohe identified as her own great great grandfather, based on family tradition (her mother descended from him, while her father was a brother of Aunt Hes and descended from Peter. Furthermore, Aunt Hes mentions a third brother Billie Bell Parsons. Etha identifies Billie Bell as the son of William J. Parsons, her great grandfather, and claims that Aunt Hes is in error--he is in fact a nephew of Will Peter Parsons.
(Individual note) John Parsons is known to have had a son Peter, to whom he left land in his will when he died in 1795.

Will married Sally Layfield, daughter of William (Billy) Layfield and Unknown. (Sally Layfield was born circa 1765.)