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See Thomas Jenkins of Maryland, pg. 22.

Both Thomas and Mary are buried at the Haywood Cemetery, CarterCounty, Kentucky.

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SQ pg 2624: Following the death of his wife, Sarah (DeFord) Spark s,in 1863, Joseph Sparks was married (2nd) to a widow, Mrs. Matild aJane (Heller) Jennings, on April 2 1865, at Ellisville, Illinois .She was born on April 12, 1830, in Ohio and was called Jane. Sh e hadmarried (1st) Phillip Jennings, and they lived near Mt. Pleasan t,Iowa. When the Civil War broke out, Phillip Jennings joined the Union Army and was killed, leaving Jane with three small children: John, Martha, and Phillip, Jr. The story is told that she put the children on her horse, led the cow, and walked back to her father's hom enear Canton, Illinois. It was there that she met Joseph Sparks, an dthey were married. She and Joseph had three children before his death in 1876.

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He was the first husband of Mary Hennessee Sparks. He died and hi swidow
married Levi Sparks, son of William and Rhoda (Pennington Sparks) bringing with her four children. See SQ pg 2457.

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See SQ p. 2455 for additional information.

According to THE CALVERT PEDEGREE prepared by Benedict LeonardCalvert, Jr. and reprinted in Vol 1, p. 276 of the Maryland HistoricalMagazine his mother was "Charlotte daughter to Edward Henry, Earl ofLItchfield, etc., And Charlotte his wife Daughter of King Charles IIby Barbara Duchess of Cleveland."

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!WILL:
See INDEX OF WILLS ST. MARY'S COUNTY, MD., FHL 975.241s2H:
"Sep 10, 1788 SPALDING MARY Liber JJ, No. 1, Pg 464; Children
Henry, Philip, Mary, Martha, Mary Ann, Jane, Dorothy Benfield, Rebecca King.
Died before 10 March, 1789."