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!NOTES:
GARDINER, Vol. II, Descendants of John Higdon, pg. 2:
"Clare Higdon was named in honor of her aunt, Clare Boarman, daugh terof
Major William Boarman and his third wife, Mary Jarboe."

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!NOTES:
See GARDINER, Vol II, Descendants of John Higdon, pg. 1:
"John Higdon, parents unknown , born in 1657 in England, died 16 J un,
1723 in Charles County, Maryland. He married in 1683, in Bowlingly ,Queen
Anne County, Maryland, Millicent Bowling, daughter of Thomas Bowlin gand of
Randolph (?). John Higdon, progenitor of the Higdon family of Maryland,
(is believed to have migrated to Maryland after 1680). By 1884 he was married
and had, by then, at least one son, Thomas. Other children by this marriage
were John, Ignatius, Charles, Mary, and Benjamin."

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!NOTES:
GARDINER, Vol II., Descendants of John Higdon, pg. 2:
"John Higdon born 1716 in Charles County, Maryland, died 1776 in Charles
County, Maryland. He married in 1736, in Charles County, Mary Magdalene
Montgomery and he signed the Oath of Fidelity during the War of Independance.
"Children were: John Baptiste HIgdon, born 1743 in Charles County ,Md,
died 1777 in Charles County; Abraham Higdon, born 1744 in Charles County."

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!NOTES:
See GARDINER, Vol II., Descendants of John Higdon, pg. 1:
"Mary Higdon, born 1697 in Charles County, Maryland. She marrie dJohn
Semmes according to Raphael Semmes in his genealogy of the Semmes an dAllied
Families of Maryland."

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!NOTES:
See GARDINER, Vol. II, Descendants of John Higdon, pg. 1:
"Thomas Higdon was born 1684 in Maryland. He married in 1707 in Bryantown,
Charled County, Maryland, Sarah Boarman, daugher of William Boarman and Jane
Neale."

SQ 4735:

(The story of the finding of Samuel Kenneth Hines, and theidentification of his biological parents, Is a most interesting one.Told briefly, it is as follows: After his death in 1990, his daughter,Kathy Brown, knowing only that her father's surname had been Hines andthat he had been adopted, began a search for his original name and thenames of his biological parents. She persuaded the Knox County[Tennessee] Juvenile Count to open her father's adoption file. Shefound the Information therein to be badly garbled. According to therecords in his file, her father had been placed in the TennesseeChildren's Home Finding Society under his middle name, Kenneth Heins,on July 29, 1927. The reason given was that his father was dead andthat his mother could not be found. He had been placed in the home ofMr. and Mrs. John W. Anderson for adoption.
(In 1942, Kenneth Anderson had needed a birth certificate for militarypurposes, and his foster parents had requested one from the Office ofVital Records of Tennessee. On January 27, 1943, a "Certificate ofLive Birth" had been issued by the Tennessee Department of Health. [A"delayed" or "live birth certificate" is one that is prepared, In theabsence of an original birth certificate, based on informationprovided by parents or other relatives.] This Certificate of LiveBirth gave the child's name as "Paul Kenneth Anderson," born onOctober 19, 1924, at Knoxville, Tennessee. His father's name appearedas John William Anderson and his mother's maiden name as Annie MaryLanler. The document had obviously been fabricated.
(As noted above, Mrs. Brown, when she began her search for herfather's biological parents following his death in 1990, had tried tofind his original birth certificate, knowing only that his surname hadbeen Hines, not Anderson, and that he had been born, apparently, in orsomewhere near Knox County, Tennessee. Furthermore, Hines is spelledin many ways: Heins, Hains, etc. After exhausting her search inTennessee, she contacted the Kentucky Department of Health and wassent a "Certificate of Birth" for Samuel Kenneth Hines, which provedto be her father's true name. The certificate had been filed onJanuary 7, 1926, by Dr. J. D. Adkins who certified that he hadattended the birth of Samuel Kenneth Hines on July 12, 1925, atWilliamsburg, Kentucky. This was, of course, the town of residence ofRobert Lawrence Sparks, brother of Elizabeth (Sparks) Hines, where shehad gone following her husband's death. The birth certificateIdentified the father of Samuel Kenneth Hines as Samuel P. Hines, age27, and his mother's maiden name as Elizabeth Sparks, age 20. It alsoindicated that Samuel Kenneth Hines had been her second child.

(Mrs. Brown continued her search by sending letters to nearly onehundred persons named Sparks in the general area of Tennessee andKentucky. One of the recipients of her letters suggested that Mrs.Brown contact the Sparks Family Association. She did so, and hersearch was then over.
(A final note: Mrs. Brown's father, Samuel Kenneth Hines, was a secondcousin of the Association's president, Paul E. Sparks.)

SQ pg 2623: She married a man named turner and they had four children: Hirst Turner was a dentist in Ogden, Utah; Charlene Turner married a man named Jury; Eleanor Turner married Victor Stone; Marian Turner married (1st) a man named Busch and (2nd) a man named Dragerton.

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On November 25, 2001, I received an email from Fred Busch(FrednBonBon@netzero.com) as follows:

"My Grandmother: Ethel Louise HIrst Turner, born July 15, 1880-DiedDecember 31, 1939 in Ogden, Utah

Born in Fort Bridger Wyoming to Eleanor Josephine Sparks Hirst andFrederick WIlson Hirst. Married Charles Henry Turner December 31,1901 in Ogden, Utah and mother of Marion, Charlene, Eleanor and HirstTurner. Charles Henry was born Jan. 25, 1880, in Ogden, Utah, the sonof William Henry Turner and Sarah Jane Comley. William Henry was thefirst non-LDS mayor of Ogden, elected in 1889. Ethel and CharlesHenry lived in the Ogden area throughout their married lives."

SQ pg 2623: "She became a school teacher and taught many years atOgden, Utah. She was married to William Henderson Newcomb on July 24,1911. He was a teacher, also."

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SQ pg 3402: They had three children: Jewel, Arnold, and Willia mHolbrook.

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SQ pg 3402: They lived at Olive Hill, KY. They had three childre n:Ella, Dixie, and Pauline Johnson.

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SQ pg 3402: They lived at Olive Hill, Kentucky. They had eight children: Elma, Talmadge, James, Jeff, Jesse, John, Larry, and Bruc eRose, Jr.

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SQ pg 3401: She married (1st) Robert Mabry and they had five children: Edith, Robert, Newton, Arvil, and Mary. She married (2nd) Ka yAdams. She died on November 11, 1975.

The following appears in the SPARKS QUARTERLY for December, 1970,Whole No. 72, at page 1354:

DEATH TAKES IDA HOLBROOK JONES

Again it becomes the painful duty of the editor to report the death ofa charter member of The Sparks Family Association. Mrs. Ida HolbrookJones died on October 12, 1970. If she had lived until November 24,she would have been 90 years old.

Ida Holbrook was born November 24, 1880, at Traphill, North Carolina,daughter of John Preston Holbrook (1847-1935) and Nancy E. (Bryan)Holbrook. John Preston was a son of William Holbrook (1815-1891) whomarried Sarah Sparks (1817-1902), oldest daughter of John Sparks, Jr.and Mary (Fields) Sparks. John Sparks, Jr. (c1794-c1865) was a son ofJohn Sparks, Sr. (1753-1840) and Sarah (Shores) Sparks, of WilkesCounty, North Carolina. (See pages 93-1014 of the QUARTERLY for
December 1955, Vol. III, No. 14.) John Sparks, Sr. was thus agreat-great-grandfather of Ida Holbrook.

Ida Holbrook married Wiley Reid Jones on August 17, 1910. He precededher in death on January 13, 1964. They had no children.

Cousin Ida possessed a great knowledge of her Sparkses and through herextensive notes we have been able to tie together many family strandswhich otherwise would have remained as conjecture. The Associationwill miss her greatly and we mourn her passing from our midst.

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SQ pg 3401: They had two children: Richard and Catherine Holbroo k.

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SQ pg 3402: They had three children: Donna, Jo Ann and Mary Holbrook.