Josiah Parsons (1781-1842) and his wife, Judith Badger (1788-1876 or 1879), had eleven children: Joseph B. (died young), Emily P. (m. Charles Tenney), Sarah B. (died young), Mary Elizabeth (m. E. N. Hidden), Lewis Neal, Joseph Badger (b. 1818), Daniel Jacobs (1821-1897), Sarah Jane Rogers, William Moody (1825-1923), Hannah Cogswell (ca. 1823-1842), and Charles P. Joseph Badger Parsons became a physician in Bennington, New Hampshire. William Moody Parsons attended the Gilmanton Academy and first studied medicine under Dr. Nahum Wight while attending Dartmouth Medical College. He later attended Vermont Medical College, from which he graduated in 1851. After practicing medicine with his brother Joseph in Bennington (1851-1855), he began his own practices in Barrington, Antrim, and Manchester, New Hampshire. He served in the New Hampshire State Legislature from 1872-1873 and as assistant surgeon and surgeon for the New Hampshire National Guard's 1st Regiment in the 1880s. In November 1882, he married Marion J. Hosley; they had one daughter, Martha Sophia (b. 1884).
From the guide to the Joseph and William Parsons papers, Parsons, Joseph and William papers, 1834-1875, 1841-1854, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)
