William Tenbrook Parke (the third)
Here is the key tree necessary to decipher what's left of William Tenbrook Parke's life, and the high likelihood "targets" of any remaining correspondence or photos. The folks listed here are all long since dead, but some or all of the individuals listed at the bottom married and had children, and many of these children are likely still alive (in fact, I've already spoken with one).
William Tenbrook Parke's parents were both deceased by the time he located permanently in Colorado. So if he was writing "back home" to anyone, it was his younger sister Lillian, who came out to Estes Park to "keep house" for William in 1903 (and likely also kept tabs on her son, who was living either in Victor or Hot Sulphur). I don't know if Franklin's sister Pearl ever married, but another sister Agnes came out to Colorado looking for a husband and found one (note that one of Agnes' sons has a middle name very close to Tenbrook), while Franklin's brother Gurdon stayed back in Indiana and had a junior, who had a third, etc. So there are rich possibilities for where anything William sent to Lillian ended up (provided it all didn't get glommed onto by his late-in-life wife, who came onto the scene just in time to marry W.T. after he had reached his early 60s, and inherit his estate a few years later upon his somewhat unexpected demise).
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