Email From Gary Aden to Gary Aden
Email Dated 6/9/2001   

        Because of health considerations(nature unknown), Martha's
husband, Reverend Allen resigned his ministerial and pastoral
assignments in Georgia and established a pioneer Methodist ministry in
Texas. Martha and eight of their nine children(one had died in infancy)
accompanied him to Fayette County, Texas where their tenth child,
Beverly Parks, my Great Grandfather, was born. He regained his health.
It is likely that Martha and her husband lived in several residences,
e.g., Bastrop, Thrifty, La Grange, Winchester, Navidad, Fort Worth, in
the ensuing years considering the locales of his ministerial
assignments, but their primary residence was in Fayette County. Martha
was eulogized in her obituary published in the Texas Christian
Advocate(1906) for her full partnership in her husband's ministry and
his accomplishments wherein he served as a circuit minister on horseback
or horse and buggy for the emerging home towns of the cattle drives
while visiting the ill and homebound. He wrote a book entitled LESSONS
FOR YOUTH in 1883 which is in the Library of Congress and can be
conveniently accessed at the Barker Center at the University of Texas,
Austin.

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