Tabitha Parks

Tabitha married William Lewis about 1785, son of Absalom Lewis and Esther. Tabitha and William had four children. William died by drowning in 1796 and left no will. Tabitha was granted administration of his estate on December 26th, 1796.

Tabitha appears not to have remarried until sometime between 1820 and 1823. She wed Samuel Russell, a veteran of the Revolutionary War. (In Russell's 1820 benefit application no wife was named, but on his application dated April 3rd 1823 Tabitha's name appears.) An excerpt from the 1823 statement reads:

The said Samuel further states that he is unhealthy, very feeble, unable to work but little, and nearly blind; that he has no trade, and that he pursues no particular occupation; that his family consist of himself and his wife; that his wife is named Tabitha; that she is upward of sixty years old and afflicted with disease and very feeble, and that neither himself nor his wife are able to support themselves, but they have lately lived in part on the Charity of their friends, and that he is in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his Country or by private charity

On July 30th, 1832 Tabitha was listed as the widow of Samuel Russell to receive a Revolutionary War Pension. Tabitha died before February 23rd, 1835. Adminstration of her estate was granted to Francis R. Ayres with Thomas Johnson & James Lewis securities.