"The Parkes Collection" is a collection of written histories and historical documents that have been handed down from generation to generation through the Parkes family. Our ancestors must have known the importance of preserving family history and that some day their descendants would see and appreciate their efforts. I cannot express in words what this collection has meant to our family not to mention how many others it has helped.

The Parkes Family History is the most complete family history written by Rufus Alonzo Parks in 1924 which was originally typed on 13 legal sheets of paper. It quotes two Parkes family bibles, one of which is in my possession. The document goes into great detail with descriptions of the early structures around the Lynchburg town area. It traces the families of Ambrose Parkes of Wilkes County, North Carolina and the descendants of Thomas Rountree, one of the original settlers of what is now Lynchburg, Moore County, Tennessee.

The short version Parkes Family History is a family history also written in 1924 by Rufus Alonzo Parks. This document is a subset of the document above.

A Statement of M.N. Parkes, Jr. in which he gives his personal account of the Parkes family. M.N. Parkes also gives a physical description of his great grandparents (Ambrose and Frances Parkes) which was passed down to him by his father, Martin Livingston Parkes, 2nd.

The Edens Family History is a family history taken down in 1924 by Roy H. Parkes, Sr. from his mother-in-law Susan Mildred (Edens) Colsher. The history goes deep into the genealogy of many early Lynchburg, Moore County (then Lincoln County) families such as Motlow, Edens, Walker, Berry, Parkes and Bobo.

The Felps Family was originally compiled by Roy H. Parks, Sr. and has been referenced in many books written about the Felps (Phelps), Waggoner, and Yount families. This version of his work was copied by Nova S. Anderson from an original owned by Mrs. Hattie Rogers of Lynchburg, TN and is somewhat difficult to follow. For further research of the families mentioned in this document, I recommend reading the following books: Historical Genealogy of the Felps Family by Minnie Beauchamp Twidwell, Waggoner - Yount Odyssey by Lewis Vaughan, and Jacob Waggoner and His Descendants.

Civil War Diary was a diary kept by the late Rufus B. Parkes when serving as a soldier in the Confederate army. The diary was lost by Mr. Parkes on the Shiloh battlefield, was picked up by a federal soldier serving in an Indiana regiment. The diary comprises eleven pages and covers the time from the day Mr. Parkes left his home at Lynchburg to the first day of the battle of Shiloh on Sunday, April 6th, 1862. The diary will prove of much interest to the family of Mr. Parkes, and to others whose relatives are referred to in it.

A Map of Lynchburg, Tennessee for year 1920 was drawn and scaled by Roy H. Parkes, Sr. which displays detailed information concerning the ownership of every tract of land in and around the Lynchburg town square. A larger and more detailed image - only 54K.

The Lynchburg String Band played in the early 1900's up until the late twenties or early thirties. This short informal account of those years is written by one of the musicians and list most of the members of that band. The piece was probably written sometime around 1965 on small sheets of notebook paper and contains many grammatical mistakes. This translated version attempts to correct some of the errors while still maintaining the original script.