Both Thomas and Mary are buried at the Haywood Cemetery, Carter County,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 a Jane(Heller) Jennings, on April 2 1865, at Ellisville, Illinois . She wasborn on April 12, 1830, in Ohio and was called Jane. Sh e had married(1st) Phillip Jennings, and they lived near Mt. Pleasan t, Iowa. Whenthe Civil War broke out, Phillip Jennings joined the U nion Army and waskilled, leaving Jane with three small children: Jo hn, Martha, andPhillip, Jr. The story is told that she put the chil dren on her horse,led the cow, and walked back to her father's hom e near Canton,Illinois. It was there that she met Joseph Sparks, an d they weremarried. She and Joseph had three children before his de ath 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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!NOTES:
See SQ p. 2455 for additional information.

According to THE CALVERT PEDEGREE prepared by Benedict Leonard Calvert,Jr. and reprinted in Vol 1, p. 276 of the Maryland Historical Magazinehis mother was "Charlotte daughter to Edward Henry, Earl of LItchfield,etc., And Charlotte his wife Daughter of King Charles II by BarbaraDuchess of Cleveland."

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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, Rebecc aKing.
Died before 10 March, 1789."

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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 g andof
Randolph (?). John Higdon, progenitor of the Higdon family of Maryl and,
(is believed to have migrated to Maryland after 1680). By 1884 he wa smarried
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 Magdal ene
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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See GARDINER, Vol II., Descendants of John Higdon, pg. 1:
"Mary Higdon, born 1697 in Charles County, Maryland. She marrie d John
Semmes according to Raphael Semmes in his genealogy of the Semmes an dAllied
Families of Maryland."

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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 a ndJane
Neale."