This is a short history of Dr. John Parker; his family and Parkers Crossroads.
The settlement of HendersonCounty began almost
immediately after the Chickasaw Treaty of October 19, 1818. The majority of early settlers were from
Middle Tennessee, East Tennessee and North
Carolina. Not
a few were from Alabama, some were from Virginia and a few from Kentucky.
The first Federal census of the county in 1830 showed a population of
8,741, of which 1442 were slave and five were freedmen.
in General by 
