Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of William Parrish and Mary Parrish. Married to Milly S. Clarkson in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on January 20, 1825. Father of Elizabeth Parrish Withers. Married Virginia Briston Parrish in Clark County, Kentucky, in April 1834. Father of Archibald Parrish, Mary M. Parrish, and Edmund H. Parrish, Jr. Married to Eliza A. G. Parrish. Postmaster for Clintonville in Bourbon County from March 1, 1836, to September 4, 1839. Farmer in Boone County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned thirty-two enslaved persons in Boone County in 1850. Farmer in Scott County in 1860. Owned twenty enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860.