Parade on Main Street, Parsons,W.Va. July 3, 1909 Parsons is a city in and the county seat of Tucker County, West Virginia, Parsons was created in Southern Tucker County. The town was named for Ward Parsons, described by one source as having once owned the land on which the town was built, and by another as having been an aged wilderness pioneer in the area. In the early 1890s, a dispute known as the Tucker County Seat War took place between the people in the town of Parsons and that of St. George over the location of the county seat. Although nobody was killed in the war, the situation came to a climax when a mob of armed men from Parsons marched on St. George and took the county records by force
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