Jacob Brummel Parsons
Obituary

It is with sorrow we announce the death of J. B. Parsons, father of Mrs. Frank Harland. Thursday at 9:30 a,m, at his home nine miles north of Drake.
Mr. Parson death was due to heart disease. He was born October 25, 1829 in North Carolina, moved to Central Illinois while a boy and lived there until three years ago when he came to North Dakota and took up his residence at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Holland.
Mr. Parsons has lived a long and useful life and was always an honorable upright, God-fearing man. He made many friends during his lifetime who will hear of his death with sorrow.
Funeral services were conducted By Reverend Dietrich Saturday at 2:00 p.m. and burial was made in the Drake cemetery. The news joins with other friends in paying tribute to the deceased and extending sympathy to the bereaved ones.

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his G.G. daughter here.
Although J. B. Parsons died in ND he lived much of his life in Schuyler County and raised his family of ten children there.