Rev. Daniel Parker

Daniel Parker was a legislator before he was a Texas pastor. Texas Escapes says Turnbull Baptist Church in Dickson County, Tennessee, ordained him in 1806 and that his quarrel with missionary Baptists began in 1815. After moving to Crawford County, Illinois, in 1817, he served in the Illinois Senate from December 1822 to December 1826. In 1826 he published Views on the Two Seeds, which held that each person is born of God's good seed or Satan's bad seed. The Two-Seed Predestinarian Baptists counted 781 members in the 1906 census and 98 in 1938.

What the plaque says

Rev. Daniel Parker Pioneer Baptist minister; born in Virginia April 6, 1781; died Dec. 3, 1844. His wife Patsy Dixon Parker, born Jan. 17, 1783; died Dec. 1, 1846.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas State Railroad Excursion Train — 10 mi
  A round trip of about 25 miles of track between the Palestine and Rusk depots through the Piney Woods, on a line built by prison labor and reopened as a tourist railroad in 1976.
• Caddo Mounds State Historic Site — 26 mi
  Three earthen mounds of an ancestral Caddo village and ceremonial center on the old El Camino Real, settled about A.D. 800 and still sacred to Caddo people, with a grass house and visitor center.

More markers nearby

• Miles Bennett — steps away
• Old Pilgrim Church — steps away
• Pilgrim Predestinarian Regular Baptist Church — steps away
• Site of the McClean Massacre — 5.3 mi