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Emma “Amy” <I>Baldwin</I> Kendrick Parker

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Emma “Amy” Baldwin Kendrick Parker

Birth
Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Death
23 Jun 1876 (aged 89)
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont, USA Add to Map
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Emma married first Joseph Parker, 10 Jul 1805, in Cavendish, VT. They had 8 children:

-Joseph Whiting Parker (1805-1887)
-Lucy Elmira Parker (1807-1891)
-Lydia Emma Parker (1809-1861)
-Hervey Isaac Parker (1812-1885)
-Mary Parker (1816-1862)
-Florella Augusta Parker (1816-1904)
-Lavinia Marie "Linny" Parker (1822-Bet.1870-1880)
-Sarah Jane Parker (1832-1929)

Emma married second Rev. Ariel Kendrick, in 1850, in Cavendish, VT. They had no children.
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Families of Cavendish, Vol. 2, pgs 19-20

Amy was the favorite child of her father. In the early days Joe and Amy were Methodists but soon afterwards became Baptists.

Amy was a small woman with a round face, blue eyes and long brown hair. She had small hands, thin lips and her face generally held a pleasant expression though it is said she could be severe if advisable and had an excellent power of expressing herself. She was self motivated and had a remarkable mind which she was fully capable of making up without outside help and her conclusions were seldom incorrect. She always kept a careful and close watch of the national government and state politics. She was totally committed to the abolitionist cause and was a regular subscriber to "The Liberator" which she read diligently. She was always ready to aid the run-away slave and the worthy poor though she despised the indolent, being very industrious herself.

When her nephew Alfred Cook Fuller was a small boy and visiting Amy in Cavendish, she was visited by a local black man whom she had aided in the past. He said to her, "have come, Mrs. Parker, to pay you that little sum I borrowed of you." "Well! You must," was the prompt reply which she made, never looking up from her sewing which she rarely put down for callers or company.

Amy was living with the Addison Tarbell family on Tarbell Hill in the Oliver Tarbell brick house after Mr. Kendrick's death. Here she is listed in the 1860 census of Cavendish.

During the last fifteen years of her life she lived at the Fuller residence (her daughter Sarah's home) in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. The Fuller children learned well her presence and they understood full well that when she was manager pro tem in the absence of their parents, they must obey, as she would put it to them, "without a whimper." And when she gave a command there was no parleying. She used to say, "scatter to bed" and the children would scatter to bed without question.

She once traded her gold beads for a copper kettle.

In her will, her money was left to "The Freedmen's Movement."
Emma married first Joseph Parker, 10 Jul 1805, in Cavendish, VT. They had 8 children:

-Joseph Whiting Parker (1805-1887)
-Lucy Elmira Parker (1807-1891)
-Lydia Emma Parker (1809-1861)
-Hervey Isaac Parker (1812-1885)
-Mary Parker (1816-1862)
-Florella Augusta Parker (1816-1904)
-Lavinia Marie "Linny" Parker (1822-Bet.1870-1880)
-Sarah Jane Parker (1832-1929)

Emma married second Rev. Ariel Kendrick, in 1850, in Cavendish, VT. They had no children.
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Families of Cavendish, Vol. 2, pgs 19-20

Amy was the favorite child of her father. In the early days Joe and Amy were Methodists but soon afterwards became Baptists.

Amy was a small woman with a round face, blue eyes and long brown hair. She had small hands, thin lips and her face generally held a pleasant expression though it is said she could be severe if advisable and had an excellent power of expressing herself. She was self motivated and had a remarkable mind which she was fully capable of making up without outside help and her conclusions were seldom incorrect. She always kept a careful and close watch of the national government and state politics. She was totally committed to the abolitionist cause and was a regular subscriber to "The Liberator" which she read diligently. She was always ready to aid the run-away slave and the worthy poor though she despised the indolent, being very industrious herself.

When her nephew Alfred Cook Fuller was a small boy and visiting Amy in Cavendish, she was visited by a local black man whom she had aided in the past. He said to her, "have come, Mrs. Parker, to pay you that little sum I borrowed of you." "Well! You must," was the prompt reply which she made, never looking up from her sewing which she rarely put down for callers or company.

Amy was living with the Addison Tarbell family on Tarbell Hill in the Oliver Tarbell brick house after Mr. Kendrick's death. Here she is listed in the 1860 census of Cavendish.

During the last fifteen years of her life she lived at the Fuller residence (her daughter Sarah's home) in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. The Fuller children learned well her presence and they understood full well that when she was manager pro tem in the absence of their parents, they must obey, as she would put it to them, "without a whimper." And when she gave a command there was no parleying. She used to say, "scatter to bed" and the children would scatter to bed without question.

She once traded her gold beads for a copper kettle.

In her will, her money was left to "The Freedmen's Movement."

Gravesite Details

Broken not on grave but on side in a pile near fence. Efforts underway to repair.



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