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To start off lets think a moment on all that our ancestors went through, and survived. And the amazing things they had seen and done. The countless plagues. the early unknown America. the summer that never came in 1816, when there was snow and frost all summer, some families nearly starved. believing the world would end. Also in 1833 the worst meteor (falling Star) storm in history had people believing that sunrise would be the start of Doomsday, at night, the heavens appeared to be on fire!! They also witnessed Halley's comet on its bright viewing in 1835 and 1910. the revolutionary war, the war of 1812, and The dreaded Civil war, the great depression,plus countless other things.......
"The triplet mystery""
We were always told by our elders as they were told. that one of the Parrill triplets born 1825, named isaac fell from the roof and died at age 18 from a fall. we have recently learned a similar tale from a recently found Parrill family member named Marian Parrill Bloomquist. It was told to her by her aunt JESSIE PARRILL HAMILTON. I am told by Marian that Jessie is 90 years old!!.Bless her heart. She also was told the tale of one of the triplets dying young. something tragic happened back then. Only it is a mystery as to what exactly happened. Of the triplets Abraham s. married and moved west to ohio and later illinois. Jacob D. married twice, and I am living proof he did not die young. He lived untill 1902. Isaac married twice and lived until 1878!!!! So what happened? Someone else must have fallen from a roof and died, why esle wolud this story be told for generations, and perhaps it was the triplets father Joseph that fell from the roof. Our aunts say that Isabella had to raise the triplets when they were young without a father, and it was hard for her. So maybe their father Joseph fell from the roof. because he just plain disappears after the 1830's. Also Isaac's son John W. is not accounted for (nor are Isaac's two daughters they are on our most wanted list). John W. is on the census of 1860, and again in 1870 at age 16 with his father Isaac. Isaac died in 1878, and his son John W. is not on the census in WV in 1880. So, it is possible that Isaac's son John W. died at age 18, and that's how the story was passed down. It's still a mystery............
following are some stories we will share they were told and passed to Sarah Parrill Burleson by our late grandmother Laura Saville Parrill, and also Aunts Oma Lee sparks, Ethyl Creswell, and Emily Myers, have contributed information to us. Our Parrill cousins are sending their stories also.....Come on Everyone, please send a story!!!!
Thanks to Early Wayne PArrill, son of Early Orville or "Bill" Parrill. here is the Parrill family crest. Early wayne is the "TIM THE TOOLMAN TAYLOR" of the family. If it has wheels it needs more power!!! His latest project was a putting a Volvo Diesel engine intended for an 18 wheeler stuffed into a Ford Window van with a six speed trans!!! Can you say more power??
Isabella would put each the Triplets in a shoebox as babies, and place them by the oven door of the woodstove to keep them warm, also when they were young she could not catch them when they were bad. They would run away. She finally caught them when they fell asleep at night......thanks Ethyl
Jacob D. and Clarinda lost their home in a fire in 1878. the newspaper says from sparks on the roof from the chimney. All their possessions were lost. This had to be a hard time, since on the same day he had visited the bedside of his brother Isaac who had died the same day. .......Truly a sad story.
Jacob D. Parrill was active during the Civil war, and had his wife Clarinda involved in smuggling items through the enemy lines. Since the soldiers guarding the "enemy lines" would let a woman through, she once took the horses and wagon and traveled all the way to the Paw Paw train station picked up a wagon load of salt and returned to the Capon Bridge area. A true and remarkable story. Jacob D. also was a Corporal in CSA.
Jacob D. would also smuggle food to the CSA troops by making barrels and putting food inside, and somehow got it through. Ethyl and Emily both say they were told this by their dad Jake, or Jacob L.
Sadly Jacob L. , and laura lost their home to fire. Emily says that the parrill and saville family bibles were lost, as well as a lot of their possessions. Emily was already married and age 16 at the time and was living in cumberland at the time. Jacob L and Laura and friends tried to save what they could get out in time, but could only save so much. According to Emily, this happened in 1926.
lelia lost her home in a flood, due the flood of 1936, and the family had to live in the barn, and all her belongings and things were lost also
......Emily Parrill Myers
Charles Albert Parrill, son of Jacob D. also lost his home by fire, and lost all family possessions. He also lost a daughter in the fire that destroyed the home. her name was Ginath, she was very young at the time.
Charles Roy "John" Parrill and family also lost their home by fire. they barely got out alive as the fire came in the middle of the night in 1951.
.............His surviving widow, hilda Cain Parrill
We have a daughter named Deloris Parrill, who now lives in UTAH.
..............hilda Cain Parrill,
Edward Ashby Turner Parrill was often most known to be a horse trader, and was often away for several days. and his wife Sallie Ann was a sort of traveling nurse who worked with a Doctor up at North River Mills., And they would never turn a person away if they needed to be fed, or needed a place to sleep for the night.
Edward and Sallie lived behind a well to do family, and the rich folks on the main road, would tell people looking for a place to spend the night to go Ed Parrill's place because they never turn anyone away.
Then there is the story of how Sallie was so used to having strange men at the table , that once when she thought Ed was away, she served his dinner and the meal was almost over, before she realized that it
was Ed at the table. He had shaved, and she had never seen him with out his beard before. That is something.
Great grandad Ed loved to eat oysters, Emily says that often he would eat them before Grandma Laura had a chance to cook them. She said he liked them better raw.
Also a story of an incident of our grandfather Jacob Lebanian Parrill known as "Jake" Jake accidentally chopped off his sister Rhoda's finger at the 2nd joint. We assume while cutting wood somehow, and Sallie, told Jake to go find the finger, she then put the finger in a bucket of water, while she worked to clean up the part attached to her hand. She then proceeded to re attach the finger with needle and thread. The finger healed, and she had a whole finger for the rest of her life, but the finger was stiff. and the joint did not bend. Remarkably ..This is a true story!!
Jacob Kackley was Jacob L.'s best friend.
Our Granddad Jacob Lebanian Parrill was great with the banjo, and was in a band of some sort. He would play at outings while in High School. Our aunt Ethyl Creswell Parrill tells this story of him playing at Capon Bridge school dances and varies outings. Our father Ernest Parrill was remarkable on the banjo also, seems he learned a lot from his father Jacob Lebanian. Our father Ernest taught our brother David the banjo, so this music legacy lives on. So, it is clear to see that this is a musical heritage. I'm sure that Edward and perhaps his father Jacob Dillon sat around the fire singing and playing music of some sort. That would be a grand thing to hear and see.
My grandfather Samuel Franklin was an excellent fiddle player and played for dances as a young man in Missouri; however, he quit playing the fiddle, my father said maybe because his fingers got to stiff from farm work.
.......Bruce A. Parrill of Wyoming
When Jacob L. or "Jake" was young he was the family messenger for the area. He would be gone for hours on horseback delvering notes back and forth to all family members, since that was the way of communication. His sisters would worry sometimes that something happened to him or that he may not be coming back, since he often returned late.
Clark Cecil Parrill writes about his grandfather
Cecil Day Parrill came to Dunseith North Dakota as a school teacher. He was known in the area as "Prof Parrill."
linda Roleff writes.
My Hugh Parrill served in the Virginia House of Burgesses before the Civil War. He too was a man of letters and was said to be very proud. My elderly Aunt tells the story of his disdain for the young man one of his daughters wanted to marry. She married him anyway, and Great-great grandfather Hugh told her never to darken his door again. When her mother died several years later, thinking all would be forgiven,she came home for the funeral. He again told her to leave. As far as I know, the rest of his children married to his approval.......
Stories of our father by Sarah Parrill Burleson
When ernest J. Parrill was in first grade the family lived within walking distance of the school. Dad not being particularly fond of school that first year, would take any opportunity he could to go home. Fire Drills were a good opportunity, sometimes recess was a good opportunity. If he was outside the building and no one was watching,he simply left the school and walked home.There was a little girl at the school, who must have been very responsible, for each time Dad left school, she would be sent to bring him back.When she was on her mission to retrieve this truant classmate, and anyone asked Where she was going she always said, I am going to get that Bad ol Ernie. When Dad was about 7 years old, the Medical community decided that all children should have their tonsils removed. So on the scheduled day,His Mother took him to the local clinic where the children were having tonsils removed. According to Dad they were putting the children in a sheet to carry them to the actual operating room. Anyway Dad was sitting there quite a while observing the children as they were carried in , and then seeing them as they were brought out. Dad decided he was not having his tonsils out. Grandma told him he could eat all the Ice Cream he wanted afterward, but that didn't convince him. When it was finally his turn, two attendants put him in the sheet, he fought so hard he split the sheet, and was off and running, out the front door and down the street, before anyone caught him. When he went for his Army physical at age 18, the Dr. was surprised to see a man his age with tonsils intact. When Dad was a young Man he worked at the Tannery in Paw Paw. He drove a little CrosleY. One day when he came out to go home his car was facing in the opposite direction. Some of his friends had picked up this little car and turned it around. This little car didn't have much power, and when they came to a hill, Blanche Wilt Parrill (our Mom) would have to help push it to the top, and then they would jump in and ride down. They married young, and against her father Salem Henry Wilts wishes, but her father learned to accept it. More Later....More to come.......
.....Sarah
Daily or "Dale" Saville was the picture taker of the family with the camera in their early years, he was Grandma Laura's brother. Thanks Emily.
Emily says that The Great Depression did not hurt the ones living in Paw Paw, including her father "Jake" ,She said that the Tannery continued to operate, and they made it through ok....more to come....