The following comments were provided by his daughter, Mary Francis(Krig) Stim:
"When John was born, he was given the name Paul Presnell Kring by hisparents. They called him Jack all his life. When he signed up to gointo the Navy during World War II, they asked him for his name and hereplied "Jack", so they wrote down John and asked for his middle name.He said my name is Paul so they put that for his middle name. Thus hebecame John Paul Kring. After the war he had his name legally changedto John Paul."

"Burial: 31 December, 1990, East Resthaven Park Cemetery, Maricopa,AZ. Suvis Harris Kring is buried in Nogalas, Santa Cruz County, AZ."

See THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, December 1994, Whole No. 168, p. 4400:

DEATH TAKES NORA (KRING) FLOWERS

We have just learned that Nora (Kring) Flowers, one of our loyalmembers, died on May 28, 1993, at San Antonio, Texas. She was 94 yearsof age. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Morrison andMrs. Norene Searls; one son, Frank Flowers; one sister, Mrs RuthBlakely; and one brother, Woodrow Kring.

Nora Kring was born on December 8, 1898, in Yoakum, Texas, and was adaughter of James D. and Ada (Sparks) Kring. Her maternal grandparentswere Newell Crane and Laura (Fetzer) Sparks. She was married toHerbert F. Flowers on November 11, 1916, and they had five children,three of whom they reared to maturity. Herbert Flowers died onJanuary 7, 1975, at Waco, Texas.

We extend our sympathy to Mrs. Flowers' children and other familymembers. (For further details about this branch of the Sparks family,see the September 1985 issue of the QUARTERLY, Whole No. 131, pp.2775-77.)

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They are both buried in Memory Lawn Memorial Park, Litchfield,Maricopa County, Arizona.

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!NOTES:
Her birthdate is pure speculation. Her husband Robert is shown a sbeing 38 in the census of 1870. This is incorrect according to th earticle in the HISTORY OF UNION COUNTY (see his notes) which show shis birth date in 1822. The error of Robert was 10 years in the census and it is assumed that the same error was made for Ellen. Otherwise, she would have been 36 with a 21 year old child.

SQ p. 3634:

She "was buried in the Union Chapel Cemetery."

SQ p. 3633:

"...they (Monroe and Martha Ann) were buried in the Walnut GroveCemetery near Trenton, Tennessee."

SQ p. 3541: They were buried in the Swiss Cemetery in Lewis County,TN.

SQ p. 3545: John Young served in the Confederate States Army andafter the war ended, he became a teacher and a business man. He diedon October 12, 1921, at Pyatt, Arkansas. Nancy died on May 9, 1955,in Marion County, Arkansas, and was buried beside her husband in thePatton Cemetery at Pyatt, Arkansas.

SQ p. 3633:

"...They were buried in the Eureka Cemetery near forked Deer,Tennessee....A photograph of Rachel Hannah (Lancaster) Robbs appears(on page 3634)."

SQ p. 3633:

"They were buried at the Oakland Cemetery at Trenton, Tennessee."

A mistake is likely, either on his father's date of death, or on hisbirth date which the SPARKS QUARTERLY (p. 3546) reports as being 10months apart.

SQ p. 4755: "They lived at Olive Hill, Kentucky."

SQ p. 4754: "He and Martha had eleven children according toinformation given by a descendant in 1953." See under children'snames on page 4754 where each of them lived.

SQ p. 4755:
"They lived at Franklin Furnace, Ohio." See this page for informationon the residences of their five children.

SQ p. 4755: "They lived at Ashland, Kentucky."