Orville Parvin

Orville was born in October 1859 in ,Hawkins, Tennessee.¹   Orville's father was Ephraim Parvin and his mother was Lucy Crowder. He had a brother and a sister, named Henry L. and Margaret.  He was the youngest of the three children. He had seven half-brothers and six half-sisters, named Thomas, Augustus, Christopher, Isaac, Lafayette, Joseph, Nathaniel Reece, Elizabeth, Jane, Sarah, Amanda, Margaret and Melvina.