Sources:
1. Marriage Record:
2. 1920 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image
#3 of 39): 11 E. Grand Blvd., Detroit (Ward 13), Detroit Twp., Wayne
Co., MI, Roll T625_812, p. 62A, SN 2A, SD 145, ED 401, enumerated 5 Jan
1920, official enumeration date 1 Jan 1920 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):
1920: for an explanation of the column
headings, please see What
the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained
no data). |
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9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
21 |
23 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
* |
11 |
8 |
29 |
Parker Austin G |
Husband |
R |
M |
W |
27 |
M |
|
Y |
Y |
MT |
NY |
WI |
Y |
Publicity Manager |
Auto Factory |
W |
|
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Parker Phyllis |
Wife |
|
F |
W |
20 |
M |
N |
Y |
Y |
MA |
MA |
MA |
Y |
None |
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|
*E. Grand Boulevard |
3. 1930 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image
#7 of 13): Castle Road, Truro, Barnstable Co., MA, Roll T626_883,
p. 63A, SN 4A, ED 1-18, SD 16, enumerated 9 Apr 1930, official enumeration
date 1 Apr 1930 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):
1930: for an explanation of the column
headings, please see What
the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained
no data). |
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2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
* |
109 |
110 |
110 |
Duganne Phyllis |
Head |
O |
2000 |
R |
N |
F |
W |
30 |
D |
19 |
N |
Y |
MA |
MA |
MA |
Y |
Writer |
Short Stories |
O |
Y |
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Parker Jane |
Dau |
|
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|
F |
W |
10 |
S |
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Y |
Y |
NY |
MT |
MA |
Y |
None |
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Duganne Maud |
Mother |
|
|
|
|
F |
W |
64 |
Wd |
31 |
N |
Y |
MA |
MA |
MA |
Y |
Home |
H Maker |
? |
Y |
*Castle Road |
Column 2 should be, but in this case cannot be, the street number; this
enumerator appears not to have known how to use this column because the
numbers run in one incremental series from street to street to street.
4. SSDI: Social Security Death Index (online at RootsWeb.com;
missing columns contained no data):
Name |
Birth |
Death |
Last Residence |
SSN |
Issued |
Post-em |
Phyllis Given |
24 Nov 1899 |
Nov 1976 |
02666 (Truro, Barnstable, MA) |
018-28-7030 |
MA |
Yes |
Eben Given |
04 Jul 1894 |
Jul 1980 |
02666 (Truro, Barnstable, MA |
028-40-5175 |
MA |
Yes |
Maude Duganne |
29 May 1865 |
Aug 1967 |
02657 (Provincetown, Barnstable, MA) |
028-40-5316 |
MA |
No |
Austin PARKER not found (no surprise, he died in 1938 and Social Security
was not begun until 1937).
5a. Anon. Tuesday, 22 Mar 1938. "Austin Parker is Claimed
by Death in California City." The Helena Independent (Helena,
MT), v. 72, n. 353, p. 10 (online at Ancestry.com):
AUSTIN PARKER IS CLAIMED BY DEATH IN CALIFORNIA CITY
NOTED AUTHOR; FLYER ONCE EMPLOYED ON INDEPENDENT
Austin Parker, 46, noted author and aviator who attended
school here and at one time was a news writer for The Independent, died
Sunday at Los Angeles, word was received by relatives and friends yesterday.
He died in Good Samaritan hospital after suffering a brain hemorrhage.
During Mr. Parker's colorful career, he was a top-flight
newshawk on New York papers, an aviator for America and France during the
World war, and the husband of Hollywood's famous Miriam Hopkins.
Gained Distinction
In addition to news writing, Mr. Parker gained distinction
for his short stories in the Saturday Evening Post and as a dialoguer and
author of original plays.
Born in Great Falls, Mr. Parker came to Helena as a small
child with his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Willis F. Parker.
A sister, Mrs. Ted Collins, resides here now.
After graduating from the Helena schools, Mr. Parker attended
Detroit college and Cornell university. During summer vacations he
wrote news for The Independent.
When the World war broke out, Mr. Parker enlisted as an aviator
in the LaFayette escadrille, where he won distinction. Towards the
end of the conflict he flew in Italy as a member of the American naval
aviation corps. He also flew for the French in Morocco against the
Riffs, winning the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was decorated,
as a result of his war experiences, with the croix de guerre, the cross
of Savoy, and the American naval war corss.
Besides his sister here, Mr. Parker is survived by a daughter,
Jane
Parker of New York city, by his first wife, who was Phyllis Duganne,
the short story writer, and by a niece, Helen Collins Brock of Los
Angeles, known in the moving picture industry by the state name of Elsa
Christian. |
5b. Anon. Wednesday, 23 Mar 1938. "Strange Funeral
of Austin Parker As He Wished It." The Helena Independent
(Helena, MT), v. 72, n. 354, p. 2 (online at Ancestry.com):
STRANGE FUNERAL OF AUSTIN PARKER AS HE WISHED IT
Hollywood, March 22.—(AP)—A strange funeral of "no sadness, no
mourning and no ceremony" was held today for Austin Parker.
The film writer, who died of a cerebral hemorrhage Sunday at the
age of 46, wrote instructions about his funeral five years ago, when he
was married to Miriam Hopkins.
The Service
Miss Hopkins and a group of Parker's friends gathered today
in a funeral parlor—"just to sit around and talk about what a swell guy
he was."
Miss Hopkins, now Mrs. Anton Litvak, stopped long
enough before entering the private room to view Parker's silver casket
to explain the funeral.
"The letter Mr. Parker wrote in which he requested this funeral
was only a paragraph long — but it was a beautiful letter," she said.
"If you had known him the way we knew him, you would realize he
merely wanted his close friends to come and sit around, just as we would
in a living room, and talk about what a swell guy he was.
"And that is what we are doing."
Text Not Revealed
Rex Cole, "Parker's business manager, to whom the
letter was addressed, said he could not reveal the text of the letter.
Parker is survived by a daughter, Jane, 17, who lives in
New York, and a sister, Mrs. Ted Collins of Helena, Mont.
He and Miss Hopkins were married in 1928, divorced in 1936 after
a five-year separation. |
5c. Anon. Wednesday, 28 Mar 1938. "Proud of Him." The
Helena Independent (Helena, MT), v. 72, n. 354, p. 4 (online at Ancestry.com;
boldface added):
PROUD OF HIM
Now and then a courageous soul works on a humble newspaper and the
staff become very fond of him. It was with the keenest regret that
The Independent recorded the death of Austin Parker, author, flyer
and one time the husband of Miriam Hopkins, in its paper Tuesday
morning. Mr. Parker was a gunuine "cub" on The Independent
for two summers. But he was a different kind of a cub. He was
what editors call a "working cub," because nothing was too hard or disagreeable
for young Parker to tackle.
Parker came to The Independent because his father and sister
lived in Helena, and he recognized that training on a small newspaper was
the real foundation of a newspaper career. And he went to work practically
for nothing, being promoted rapidly partly because of his ability as a
writer and partly because he gave a police commissioner a well deserved
beating.
His first job was on the New York Times. As was the custom
in those days, a newspaper man had to be fired from a college paper before
he could work on a daily. Austin Parker selected the "Cornell
Widow" as the paper from which he chose to be fired. He got fired
amid a sensational journalistic encounter with the faculty. The New
York Times hired him and he made good. He was a newspaper feature,
not a regular newspaper man and he was the author of more than 100 stories
appearing in leading American magazines.
Austin Parker had served in the World war as a flyer with
the French and Italian armies, and at one time was commander of the Escadrille
Cheriffienne, the Sulton of Morocco's own escadrille.
Mr. Parker very likely received wounds not noticed at the
time, which resulted in his death at 46 years. He was a loveable
fellow, which enabled him to select two talented women for wives. Phyllis
Duganne, whom he first married, was an author of distinction.
When their romance went wrong, Parker married Miriam Hopkins,
talented motion picture actress, from whom he was divorced in 1936.
Alone, at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, Austin
Parker went on the final great adventure last Sunday, mourned by his
sister, niece, and a seventeen-year-old daughter, who makes her home in
New York. |
6. The Parker House [link died]:
a New England bed & breakfast in Truro, MA, run by a great-granddaughter
of Maude Emma (HAYES) DUGANNE.
7. Conversation with Jilene COHN, descendant of our subject. |