Benjamin Franklin Parker (1898-1969) was the son of Truman E. Parker and Mary Haskett, who married in 1867 in Illinois. From Ft. Sill, Oklahoma they migrated to Texas in 1885. Benjamin drove the freight from Jackson, Wyoming to Victor, Idaho. He married Mary Harmison and they had three daughters. In 1915, he married Emma Sarah Smith and they adopted Jessie, Norman and June Haskins.