Ahnentafel #172 - Ancel Parrish

Ancel Edward Parrish

aka Anselm, aka Ned, aka Edward

Born: ca. 1749 North Carolina
Died: Jan. 25, 1843, Putnam Co., IN at Elijah Wright's home

Buried: Long Branch Cemetery, Putnam Co., IN

Married: Susan, ca. 1779, she may have been his second wife.

Occupation: farmer

Military: Edward first served as a private in Capt. Joshua Hadley's Company of the 1st North Carolina Regiment for 18 months beginning Aug. 1, 1782.  

It is unclear what if any real service Edward Parrish saw in the war.  There were three Captain Joshua Hadleys in the war.



The 1st NC Regiment established Sept. 1, 1775 mainly of men from Wilmington District and Salisbury District. It was reconstituted from April to July of 1781 with detachments sent to South Carolina to support Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Greene.  The regiment was furloughed on April 23, 1783 at James Island, South Carolina and officially disbanded on Nov. 15, 1783.  This is most likely the regiment that Edward saw action in. 

The 10th Regiment has been confused for the 1st in later histories and is probably why Edward's tombstone says the 10th instead of the first. 

Immigrated:  In 1826 the Parrish and Wright families moved to Putnam County, Indiana. 

The father of Elizabeth and Edward Parrish, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He came to Indiana with the rest of the family and lived here until his death, having reached the ripe old age of over ninety years; all that is mortal of him rests in the Long Branch cemetery, his grave never having been marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution. [Weik's History of Putnam County, Indiana]

Records:
1790 census - Warren Co., NC an Edward Parrish over 16, 2 males under 16 and four females.  Not sure if this is our Edward.

1798 tax list - Rowan Co. NC

1800 census - Salisbury, NC an Edward Parrish family, Edward over 45 with seven children.


1810 census - not found on census 

1820 census - Rowan Co., NC Edward over 45 with Susan and a son. 

1830 census - not found on census

1840 census - not found on census

Known Children:
Burrell b. ca. 1780
Ancel b. ca. 1781, md. Winneford Cashait, 1805
Ezekiel b. ca. 1786
Gilley b. ca. 1787 md. Lodewick Pulliam 1811
Edward b. 1789, d. 1834, md. Rachel Tucker ca. 1806

• Abel b. 6/23/1806, d. 1/5/1857 md. Bethsheba Rush
• Henry b. ca. 1807, d. 1840 md. Anna Russell 1827
• Jesse b. 1809, d. 3/31/1855 md. Christina Shuck
• Reuben b. 6/18/1810, d. 8/21/1849 md. Cynthia Lane
• Noah b. 1813, d. 8/17/1845 md. Jerusha Elliott
• Zebedee b. 2/15/1816, d. 1/28/1888 md. Helen Goodwin
• Amy b. ca. 1818 md. William Prince
• Edward b. 9/6/1818, d. 1/23/1883 md. Cyrilda Call
• Thomas b. 1823, md. Lucetta Chandler
• Susan b. 5/21/1824, d. 8/9/1890 md. Milton Young   

Elizabeth b. 3/22/1790 md. Amos Wright

• Claiborne b. 1808 md. Rebecca (--?--) children Julia, John, Mariah, Miles, Levi
• Linnie
• Dicie
• Emsley b. 1815 md. Esther (--?--) children: Sarah, Harrison, Joseph, Lucy, Dicey, Elizabeth, Eve, Emily
• Nathan
• Nancy
• Nicy
• Ezekiel b. 1822 md. Selah (--?--) children: Henry, Martha, Fanny
• Miles
• Julia
• Turner
• Rhoda b. ca. 1831
• Francis b. ca. 1833

Susanna b. 8/1/1792, d. after 1850 md. Elijah Wright before 1820

• Elizabeth
• Nettie
• Hester
• Cecilia
• Lewis
• Thaney
• Willis
• Irvin
• Martha
• Elijah b. ca. 1833
• Simeon b. ca. 1836

Delana b. ca. 1798 md. Isom Wright 12/21/1820

• Riley b. ca. 1828
• Isaiah b. ca. 1831
• Aaron b. ca. 1832
• Mundy b. ca. 1837
• Lawrence b. ca. 1839
• Harvey
• Nelsy

John b. 1809
James md. Nora Humphries