EDWARD WEST PARKER SR. AND ANNIE GALT JOHNSON PARKER MOODY
Parents of Virginia Parker Reid
Edward West Parker Sr.
Born in slavery in Virginia, moved to San Francisco sometime before the end of the Civil War, established a bootmaking business on Third Street, delegate to the State Convention of Colored Citizens of California, October, 1865, registered to vote in 1870 on the first day possible for African-Americans in California, married to Annie Galt Johnson Parker Moody
Advertisement For Edward Parker's Bootmaking Business
414 Third Street, San Francisco
The Elevator Newspaper
San Francisco, California
June 9, 1865
The State Convention of Colored Citizens
of California, October 25-28, 1865, Sacramento, California
Letter Concerning 1870 Voter Registration
of Edward West Parker Sr.
Annie Galt Johnson Parker Moody
Born in slavery in the Norfolk area of Virginia, migrated to San Francisco just prior
to the Civil War with her father and mother, sister, and brother, married Edward
West Parker Sr. as her second of three husbands