 Mrs. Littlehale's maternal grandparents were Lieutenant Retire H. and Ednah (Hardy) Parker, of East Bradford, now Groveland, Massachusetts.The Parker line of ancestry began with Abraham' Parker, who married at Woburn, Massachusetts in 1644 Rose Whitlock, and about the year 1653, removed to Chelmsford, Massachusetts.It continued through Abraham, who married Martha Livermore and settled in East Bradford; Abraham and wife, Elizabeth Bradstreet (a descendant of Humphrey Bradstreet, of Rowley, Massachusetts); Abraham and his second wife, Hannah Beckett, daughter of Retire Beckett, of Salem, belonging to a noted family of ship-builders; to Lieutenant Retire H. Parker and his wife, Ednah Hardy, above named.