The following obituary notice was published in the Girard Free Press,Kirard, Kansas, January 5, 1928, and was sent by Robert W. Sparks, agreat-grandson of Calvin A. and Antha (Mitchell) Sparks.

Obituary of Mrs. Antha Sparks Antha Mitchell was born Nov.27, 1855, at Keetsville, Mo. She entered the Beyond from herlate home on North Osage Street, Girard, Sunday evening, Jan. 1,1928.
On August 30, 1874, she was united in marriage to Mr. CalvinSparks at Joplin, Mo. To this union were born three sons andthree daughters, two sons, one daughter and the father preceded her into the Eternal Home. The young couple moved to Kansas shortlyafter their marriage and settled on a farm west of Pittsburg, latermoving to Cherokee, where they resided until eighteen years agowhen they moved to Girard, which has since been their home.
Mrs. Sparks became a Christian early in life---when buttwelve years of age and for sixty years she has witnessedand borne testimony to that faith in her Saviour. She issurvived by one son, William R. of Baxter Springs, Kans., twodaughters, Mrs. Martha Kuhn and Miss Mary, both of the homeaddress; nine grand children and three great-grandchildren besidesa large circle
of friends who have felt enriched by her friendly helpful life, andwho mourn her sudden going.
Funeral services were held from the Christian church,Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 and interment was in the Girardcemetery. Services were conducted by Rev. W. E. Babb whoused the same text and scripture as he used for the service ofMr. Sparks six years ago.

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NOTES:
SEE THOMAS JENKINS OF MARYLAND 1670, Edward Felix Jenkins, OSA, p g 22:
"Born about 1713, according to Mrs. Samuel (Lydia B.) Brown of Baltimore,
Mrs. Brown's husband was a grandson of Henry Jenkins, who was a grand sonof
William Jenkins (94), of George Jenkins (91), and she had access to m any
records, including Raphael T. Semmes' notes. (citing THE SEMMES AN DALLIED
FAMILIES, by Raphael T. Semmes, Pub. ca. 1918, Maryland Historical Society)
William Jenkins married Elizabeth Mitchell July 29, 1749. He died Au gust
26, 1782. She died April 3, 1777. (See Allied Families-Mitchell)
All the other very exact data in this chapter is taken from the tw oold
family bibles, still extant: The Bible of William's son, George, an d the
bible of William's grandson, Henry Jenkins, son of Thomas. Henry ha d anote
in his bible saying that the data about his parents, grandparents, au ntsand
uncles were all copied out of his father's bible. The George Jenkin sbible
was (as of 1977) in the possession of the late Honorable Dudley Digge sof La
Plata, Charles County. The Henry Jenkins Bible was (1977) in the possession of
Mrs. William Beverly (Ruth Jenkins) Bristor, Towson, Maryland.
The will of William Jenkins (94) of George (91) of Charles County ,written
April 13, 1782, was probated August 16, 1782. He leaves to each of h isfive
daughters, Henrietta, Ann, Susannah, Dorothy, and Mary, and to his so nJohn,
a negro, a horse, and a saddle, and permission to live in his house u ntil
they marry. The rest of the estate is divided between sons George an dJohn.
Son Thomas is executor. The witnesses were Luke and Joseph Wheeler a ndGeorge
Mills, of Charles County. The estate at final count was valued at 93 7pds,
3 sh, 4 pen." (Citing Liber 1, pps 48-49, 98-100, (Final Accounts) Charles Co.)
(There follows, details concerning the children.)

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!NOTES:
See JENKINS, pg 310.

SQ p. 4752: "They lived at McDowell, Kentucky. They had no children."

SQ p. 4752: "They lived in Morehead, Kentucky."

The following is a continuation of notes of Joseph Sparks, spouse ofMartha (Moore) Sparks, from an article in THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, March,1999, Whole No. 185, continuing from page 5121:

"Joseph Sparks spent his youth in Queen Annes County, Maryland, and itwas doubtless there that he was married to Mary ------ although no recordhas been found of the marriage. From Joseph's estate records, we knowthat he was the father of twelve children, seven sons and fivedaughters. There is always the possibility, of course, that he had beenmarried more than once. A birth record has been found for only one ofthese children; the son named William was born on April 27, 1738,according to the records of St. Luke's Parish in Queen Annes County. Hisparents were identified as Joseph and Mary Sparks. He was baptized atSt. Luke's Church on June 4, 1738. (For a listing of the Sparks births,baptisms, mar-riages, and deaths found in the records of St. Luke'sParish, 1728-1850, see the QUARTERLY of March 1971, Whole No. 73, pp.1389-91.)

"Joseph Sparks had inherited land from his father in Queen AnnesCounty that, in the end, amounted to 100 acres. He sold this to awealthy neighbor named Augustine Thompson, on March 21, 1719. We havefound no further record of Joseph in Queen Annes County until that of hisson William's birth in 1738.

"Joseph Sparks had a nephew, William Sample Sparks, who was nearly thesame age as Joseph. William Sample Sparks had moved west to FrederickCounty, Maryland, before 1736, and Joseph Sparks followed him there afterhis son William's birth on April 27, 1738. Joseph died there, withoutmaking a will, in 1749, leaving his widow, Mary Sparks, with the twelvechildren. In the subsequent division of Joseph's estate, the childrenwere named as follows in a Frederick County Court record dated August 22,1750: Solomon, Joseph, Jr., Charles, Jonas, Jonathan, William [born1738], George, Merum, Mary, Ann, Rebecca, and Sarah.

"William Sparks, son of Joseph, was a babe in arms when he accompaniedhis parents in their move from Queen Annes County to Frederick County,Maryland, probably in the autumn of 1738 or the spring of 1739. It was adecade later, when he was ten or eleven years old, that he lost hisfather.

"By 1759, in which year William Sparks came of age, he had moved toLancaster County, Pennsylvania. The distance was not great. He hadlived in that part of Frederick County that would become Carroll Countyin 1837. Carroll County, Mary-land, borders York County, Pennsylvania,on the north, and York County adjoins Lancaster County to the east. Anassessor's return for Drumore Township in Lan-caster County for 1759includes a "Freemen's Page" (i.e., a Usting of unmarried males over 21living in the township) on which he wrote: "Wm. Sparks, at RobertDicksons.11 Robert Dickson was a blacksmith so we can conjecture thatyoung Sparks may have been apprenticed to Dickson to learn theblacksmithing trade. Two years later, on March 12, 1761, William Sparkswas married to Martha Moore at St. James Church in Lancaster,Pennsylvania.

"Martha Moore was a daughter of Alexander and Margaret Moore ofDrumore Township where William Sparks had been shown as a "freeman" in1759. Alexander Moore had died, however, in 1750. In his will datedJune 30, 1750, and probated on August 17, 1750, Alexander Moore had leftland to his wife and their sons, James, John, and William; and "unto mywell beloved daughters Agnes, Margaret, and Mar-tha 40 pound[s]Pennsylvania money to each of them as they come of age." He also left 10shillings to his daughter Hannah and 5 pounds to a granddaughter namedMargaret. (This will was recorded in Lancaster County Will Book A, Vol.1, p.191.)

"On May 31, 1766, in Lancaster County Deed Book L, p. 224b, acuitclein dead was recorded by which the "Heirs of Alexander Moore"granted a portion of their inheri-tance "to Margaret Moore, widow ofAlexander Moore." One of the grantors was identified as "Martha, wife ofWilliam Sparks of Drumore Township," thus proving that William Sparks wasstill living in Lancaster County in 1766.

"Margaret Moore, mother of Martha (Moore) Sparks, continued to live inDrumore Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, until her death in1777. She made her will on May 9, 1777, and it was probated on November24, 1777. (See Lan-caster County Will Book C, Vol. 1, p. 484.) In herwill, she mentioned her sons, James and William, and her daughters:Margaret Fullerton; Hannah, wife of Moses Irwin; Agnes Dickinson; andMartha Sparks. Her clothing and other personal items were to be dividedamong these four daughters, with "a piece of Callico not yet made up" tobe set aside for Martha Sparks.

"William and Martha Sparks, however, were no longer residents ofLancaster County when Margaret Moore died. In fact, the assessment rollsfor Drumore Township did not include William Sparks's name in 1769 northereafter.

"We know that by 1773 William Sparks and his family were living inwhat was to be-come Washington County, Pennsylvania. He was a "squatter"there, having settled on land then claimed by both Pennsylvania andVirginia. Their original charters had overlapped. We can be sure thatWilliam hoped to acquire a title at a later date to the tract he hadmarked off. "Squatters" in what is now southwestern Pennsylvaniadesignated the land they wished to claim by chopping notches in trees tomark its borders. These were called "Tomahawk Claims," and as othersquatters arrived, the earlier marked boundaries were usually respected.A descendant of William Sparks remembered family stories about hisancestor having settled on "tomahawk land" in Pennsylvania, but themeaning of the term had been forgotten in the family.

"William Sparks's brother, George Sparks, also took up a "TomahawkClaim" in 1773 not far from William's. (See the cover of the QUARTERLY ofJune 1963 for a map showing the Sparks claims along with those of theirneighbors.) Both William andWilliam Sparks of Washington County,Pennsylvania, with his brother, George Sparks, were subjects of anarticle that appeared in the June 1963 issue of the QUARTERLY, Whole No.42, pp. 728-34, although at that time we had not yet found documentaryproof of where they had lived prior to 1773. Although we then thought itlikely that they were brothers, we could not be sure. Likewise, we hadno knowledge of William Sparks's whereabouts after 1781; we even thoughtthat he may have died about then. We had succeeded in finding severalInterested descen- dants of William through his son, James Sparks, bornabout 1865, but they could tell us little about James's parentage. Wehad considerably more information about George Sparks, however, when weprepared the June 1963 article. George had remained in Washington Countyfor the rest of his life, making his will there on July 9, 1803; he diedin the spring of 1806. George Sparks's wife's name had been Mary, and onpage 734 of the June 1963 QUARTERLY we gave a list of their children:Salathiel, George, Jr., William Bostwick, Solomon, James, and Mary.

"Our research since 1963 has proven that William and George Sparkswere, indeed, brothers; they were sons of Joseph Sparks who died inFrederick County, Maryland, in 1749. An article devoted to Joseph Sparksappeared in the QUARTERLY of March 1990, Whole No. 149, pp. 3554-61.Joseph Sparks was born about 1690 in Talbot County, Maryland, and was theyoungest son of William Sparks, who had been an immigrant to Marylandfrom Hampshire County, England, in or about 1662. William Sparks underconsideration here was thus a grandson of the immigrant and had doubtlessbeen named for him. This elder William Sparks made his will on June 21,1709, in Queen Annes County, Maryland; it was probated there in October1709. In his will, William Sparks had indicated that his son Joseph hadnot yet come of age. Two articles in the QUARTERLY have been devoted toWilliam Sparks (died 1709). The first appeared in the issue for March1971, Whole No. 73, pp. 1381-89; the second was in the issue of December1992, Whole No. 160, pp. 4025-34. We believe that William Sparks (died1709) is the ancestor of more persons named Sparks in the U.S. today thanof any other Sparks immigrant.

"Joseph Sparks spent his youth in Queen Annes County, Maryland, and itwas doubtless there that he was married to Mary ------ although no recordhas been found of the marriage. From Joseph's estate records, we knowthat he was the father of twelve children, seven sons and fivedaughters. There is always the pos-sibility, of course, that he had beenmarried more than once. A birth record has been found for only one ofthese children; the son named William was born on April 27, 1738,according to the records of St. Luke's Parish in Queen Annes County. Hisparents were identified as Joseph and Mary Sparks. He was baptized atSt. Luke's Church on June 4, 1738. (For a listing of the Sparks births,baptisms, marriages, and deaths found in the records of St. Luke'sParish, 1728-1850, see the QUARTERLY of March 1971, Whole No. 73, pp.1389-91.)

"Joseph Sparks had inherited land from his father in Queen AnnesCounty that, in the end, amounted to 100 acres. He sold this to awealthy neighbor named Augustine Thompson, on March 21, 1719. We havefound no further record of Joseph in Queen Annes County until that of hisson William's birth in 1738.

"Joseph Sparks had a nephew, William Sample Sparks, who was nearly thesame age as Joseph. William Sample Sparks had moved west to FrederickCounty, Maryland, before 1736, and Joseph Sparks followed him there afterhis son William's birth on April 27, 1738. Joseph died there, withoutmaking a will, in 1749, leaving his widow, Mary Sparks, with the twelvechildren. In the subsequent division of Joseph's estate, the childrenwere named as follows in a Frederick County Court record dated August 22,1750: Solomon, Joseph, Jr., Charles, Jonas, Jonathan, William [born1738], George, Merum, Mary, Ann, Rebecca, and Sarah.

"George Sparks, perhaps because of their Maryland origin, believedthat they had "squatted" on Virginia land and considered themselves to beVirginians. Virginia had organized this disputed land as its WestAugusta County. Then, in 1776, Virginia set off a portion as OhioCounty, which included the claims of the Sparks brothers. Pennsylvania,on the other hand, had organized the area as part of its vastWestmoreland County. Thus, references pertaining to William and GeorgeSparks are found in both Virginia and Pennsylvania sources. Weincorporated these refer-ences in our June 1963 article cited above; theywill not be repeated here.

"The most important Virginia record pertaining to George and WilliamSparks has to do with the final settlement of this controversy betweenPennsylvania and Virginia. Virginia agreed in 1780 to give up her claimto what the Decree of Trenton stipulated belonged to Pennsylvania, withthe understanding that she could issue certificates to her settlers fortheir "tomahawk" land claims which would then be honored byPennsylvania. About 400 settlers in what is now Washington Countyapplied to Virginia for certificates. To obtain a certificate, it wasnecessary for an applicant to state the year in which he had made hisfirst settlement in the disputed area. Both William and George Sparksstated that they had settled on their claims in the year 1773. (Theofficial copy of these certificates retained by Virginia is now preservedin the library of the University of West Virginia, a microfilm of whichwas loaned to us.)

"The Virginia certificate issued to William Sparks was dated February5, 1780, and was for 400 acres "on the waters of Buffaloe to Include hisSettlement made in the year 1773. 11 George Sparks received two Virginiacertificates, one for 400 acres tton the waters of Buffalo and CrossCreek" and the other for a claim that he had purchased from a man named.William Bailey adjoining his own claim. Bailey had made his settlementthere in 1775. (The references to Buffalo Creek and Cross Creek did notmean that these streams flowed through or adjoined these "tomahawk" landclaims, but that they were nearby and could be used to help to locatethem.)

"When actual surveys were subsequently made of the "squatterst"claims, they were almost always found to contain fewer acres than theclaimant had thought. When William Sparks's tract was finally surveyedin 1786, it was found to contain slight-ly over 323 acres. By 1786,however, William Sparks was no longer living on his tract--he had sold itto a man named Thomas Bines, but we do not know the date of thistransaction. It was not until 1787 that Bines finally obtained a patent(deed) from the state of Pennsylvania for the tract. As was the customin Mary-land and Virginia, the first owner of a tract of land gave it aname to help in its future identification. George Sparks named his firsttract "Sparta." The tract he had purchased from Bailey was called"Eleanoroon." When Thomas Bines obtained his patent on the tract he hadpurchased from William Sparks, it was called "Benington," but whether ithad been given this name by Sparks or by Bines, we do not know.

"Although the Decree of Trenton did not take effect officially until1782, both Virginia and Pennsylvania knew as early as 1780 that it wouldbecome effective then. In anticipation, Pennsylvania created the newcounty of Washington in 1781, carving it out of Westmoreland County. Thefirst tax list for the new county has survived; it is dated 1781 and hasbeen published in the Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd. Series, Vol. 22. BothWilliam and George Sparks were taxed in Hopewell Township; William'staxable property consisted of 340 acres of land, 2 horses, 4 cattle, and8 sheep. (Although when it was surveyed, William's tract was found tocomprise slightly more than 323 acres, apparently it was thought tocomprise 340 acres in 1781.) George Sparks was also taxed in 1781: 400acres and the same number of domestic animals as his brother.

"Township maps showing the tracts of land originally patented toindividuals in Washington County, Pennnsylvania, as well as in Fayetteand Green Counties, were drawn by John H. Campbell, chief draftsman inthe land Office Bureau of the Department of Interior of Pennsylvania, inthe early 1900s. This project was necessitated by the rapidly increasingvalue of coal lands in western Pennsylvania. These maps were reproducedand published as Vol. III of THE HORN PAPERS, in 1945 under the titleEarly Westward Movement on the Monongahela and Upper Ohio, 1765-1795.The map for Independence Township of Washington County appears as number68 in this volume. The tracts of land claimed by William and GeorgeSparks were both located originally in Hopewell Township in WashingtonCounty, but in 1856 In-dependence Township was created from part ofHopewell Township and included the land once "squatted" upon by Williamand George Sparks in 1773. Because Thomas Bines had purchased, and thenobtained the patent for, William Sparks's tract, his name appears as itsowner on this map, it having been surveyed on April 19, 1785, ascontaining slightly over 323 acres. A small portion of this map isreproduced on page 5124 showing the owners of tracts near that of ThomasBines in the 1780s. As can be seen, in his description of the land ofThomas Bines, John Campbell noted that Bines was an "assignee" to thistract and that it had been surveyed for him on March 25, 1786, "inpursuance of a Virginia cert[tificatel.11 That Virginia certifi-cate, ofcourse, had been issued to William Sparks.

"Independence Township in Washington County adjoined Ohio County,Virginia, on its western border. (Ohio County was divided in 1796 to formBrooke County to the north; after 1863 both Ohio and Brooke Countiesbecame part of the new state of West Virginia.)

"Our belief that the William Sparks who "squatted" on land at MingoBottom, and whose cabin there had been among those destroyed by Capt.Dougherty on November 30, 1785, was the same William Sparks who had beena pioneer in what had become Washington County, Pennsylvania, is based inpart on the fact that a tract of land adjoin-ing Sparks in WashingtonCounty had been claimed by a man named John Carpenter with a Virginiacertificate. He was, we believe, the same John Carpenter named by Capt.Dougherty in his report of houses destroyed on Indian lands. At the endof his report, Dougherty noted: "The house of John Carpenter with a sickfamily in it of George Norris's [was] left standing near the houses ofhis which were destroyed." The other houses belonging to Carpenter thatwere destroyed were described as be-ing "along the shore below CrossCreek." Another name found on Capt. Dougherty's list, that of FrancisRiley, appears, also, as that of a neighbor of William Sparks inWashington County.

"Believing as we do that the William Sparks who, according to Capt.Dougherty, was a squatter at Mingo Bottom in 1785, was the same WilliamSparks who had "squatted" earlier on land in Washington County, we haveto ponder why he would have then left the land for which he had obtaineda Virginia certificate in 1780. Was he, like Daniel Boone, a restlessadventure seeker, always dreaming of finding richer land, perhaps a landspeculator, or were there other personal reasons that we will never know? Might his wife, Martha (Moore) Sparks, have died and had he married asecond time? As will be noted in more detail later, there is some reasonto wonder whether there was a second wife named Mary (Jolly) Sparks.

"A number of years ago, we corresponded with several descendants ofJames Sparks, a son of William Sparks of Washington County,Pennsylvania. None of these indi-viduals had any written records ordocuments pertaining to the early generations of the family. Some knewthat James's father's name had been William Sparks, and one or tworecalled hearing that his mother's name had been Martha Moore, but noneknew that she and William had been married in Lancaster County,Pennsylvania. They had assumed that William and Martha had met inMaryland. There was the general knowledge that William Sparks had beenborn in Maryland and that he had once lived in Frederick County.

"In 1886, a biographical sketch of Allen Sparks (born in 1814), whowas a son of James, was included in a History of Clinton County, Indianapublished by the Interstate Publishing Co. in Chicago. According to thisaccount, believed by some to have been written by Allen's son, ElijahSparks, a prominent attorney of his time, James Sparks had been "bornnear Fredericksburg, Maryland, in September 1759, and when fourteen yearsold moved across the Allegheny Mountains on pack-horses, to WashingtonCounty, Pennsylvania .... " (p. 819) There never has been aFredericksburg in Maryland, but there was (is) a town named Frederick.James's parents had not been married until 1761, and census records placehis birth in about 1765. James was shown as 85 years old when the 1850census was taken. Even within this biographical sketch itself, the birthyear of 1759 for James Sparks is disputed with the statement: "He died inOctober 1855 in the ninety-seventh year of his age. "

"We published an article entitled "James Sparks of Washington County,Pennsylvania, and Clinton County, Indiana," in the QUARTERLY of March1984. In this, we repeated, unfortunately, a number of the errorsappearing in this 1886 account. There can be no doubt that James Sparkseither remained in Washington County, Pennsylvania, when his father movedto claim land, we believe, at Mingo Bottom on the upper Ohio River, orthat he later returned. James became of age about 1786, but he did notmarry until about 1798. There is little doubt but that he was married inWashington County, his bride being Margaret Ray, daughter of James andMargaret Ray. James and Margaret were the parents of twelve children.It was not until about 1820 that James moved his family to Ohio, livingfirst in the part of Richland County that helped to form Ashland Countyin 1846, but a decade earlier they had moved to Clinton County, Indiana.Information about the children of this couple can be found in theQUARTERLY for March 1984, Whole No. 125, pp. 2588-2600; and June 1984,Whole No. 126, pp. 2612-36.

"In 1952, a member of the Association now deceased (Mrs. Edna Briggs)shared with us a letter dated September 9, 1939, written by Elizabeth K.Sparks, widow of Joseph Sparks (born in 1866), who had been a grandson ofJames and Margaret (Ray) Sparks. Elizabeth K. Sparks copied a recordthat Guy Sparks (1867-1955), nephew of her husband, had compiled "fromhearsay and family tradition." He had written the following regardingWilliam Sparks, father of James Sparks:

"William Sparks was a soldier in the Revolutionary War; serving withdistinction throl the war. Was at Stony Point, Brandywine, andYorktown. He married Martha Moore. Her parents were wealthy and gavethem a farm in Maryland--east of the mountains. Sold this forContinental money and lost it. Came west of the mountains and settled on500 acres of Tomahawk improvement in Washington Co., Pennsylvania."

"Based on "hearsay and family tradition" as Guy Sparks had confessed,this account doubtless has elements of truth along with obvious errors.It does appear that William Sparks did serve in the American Revolutionbased on Washington County Militia records (see p. 730 of the June 1963QUARTERLY, Whole No. 42.) That service was much less extensive, however,than described in the above account.

"Another descendant of William and Martha (Moore) Sparks through theirson James who had a keen interest in his branch of the Sparks family wasDr. Alan Lee Sparks (1901-1978), a son of the Guy Sparks mentionedabove. Dr. Sparks stated in a letter dated September 20, 1952, that: "myremote ancestor was one William Sparks [who] took tomahawk land inPennsylvania .... They spent a generation or so in Pennsylvania & thenjourneyed westward to Ohio where there was a temporary settling." Webelieve that this family memory may have referred to William's brief stayat Mingo Bottom on the upper Ohio in 1785.

"Dr. Alan Sparks believed that William and Martha (Moore) Sparks werethe parents of sons named James, William, Jr., and Richard, and daughtersnamed Perunia, Marjory, Martha, and Margaret. As we have noted, JamesSparks either remained in Washington County, Pennsylvania, when hisfather left, or he returned later to be married to Margaret Ray about1798. We believe that the son named William was the William Sparks, Jr.who, with William Sparks, Sr., signed a petition in 1786 as a resident ofBourbon County, Kentucky, asking that a new county be formed that wouldbe more convenient; William Sparks, Jr. paid taxes in Bourbon County from1787 to 1797, after which his residence may have been in Nicholas County,Kentucky, which was created from Bourbon and Mason Counties in 1799. Heapparently died in 1799 (see the QUARTERLY of September 1980, Whole No.111, pp. 2240-41). We have no knowledge of the Richard Sparks thought byDr. Alan Sparks to have been a son of William and Martha (Moore) Sparks.

"Earlier we noted the possibility that Martha (Moore) Sparks may havedied in the 1780s and that William Sparks had been married a secondtime. Our clue for this is the fact that in the biographical sketch ofAllen Sparks (1814-1905), son of James Sparks, it was stated that Allen'sgrandmother had been Mary (Jolly) Sparks, This was definitely an errorfor there is ample proof that James Sparks's mother had been Martha(Moore) Sparks, but could the writer of this biographical sketch,believed to have been Allen's son, Elijah Sparks (1843-1916), havemistakenly recalled the name of Allen's step-grandmother? We have foundrecords proving that there was a Jolly family living in WashingtonCounty, Pennsylvania, in the 1780s.

"If we are correct in conjecturing that the William Sparks, Sr. ofBourbon County, Kentucky, as early as 1786 was the same William Sparksborn in Queen Annes County, Maryland, on April 27, 1738, a son of Josephand Mary Sparks, when and where did he die? In 1799, the year in whichWilliam Sparks, Jr. died in Kentucky, William, Sr. would have been 61years old. Earlier we noted that Guy Sparks (1867-1955), a grandson ofJames and Margaret (Ray) Sparks, had prepared a record of his branch ofthe Sparks family "from hearsay and family tradition." This he shared in1939 with his uncle, Joseph Sparks, and in 1952 Joseph's widow shared itwith Edna Briggs, who shared it with us. In this record, Guy Sparksstated that William Sparks, his great-grandfather, had "died at the ageof 75." He also listed the children of William as: "James, William,Marjory, Martha, and Margaret." Note that he did not include Richard andPerunia as had Dr. Alan Sparks in his list.

"What may have been Guy Sparks's source for stating that WilliamSparks had died in at the age of 75, we do not know. If he was accurate,and the William Sparks, son of Joseph and Mary Sparks, born in QueenAnnes County on April 27, 1738, was the same William Sparks who wasmarried to Martha Moore, we could then calculate that William died in orabout 1813. We cannot, however, substantiate this date based on anywritten record known to us.

"Following is a tentative list of the children of William Sparks. Weconjecture that he was the William Sparks, son of Joseph and Mary Sparks,born in Queen Annes County, Maryland, on April 27, 1738, who accompaniedhis parents in their move about 1739 to Frederick County, Maryland; whowas married to Martha Moore in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on March12, 1761; who "squatted" on "tomahawk" land in Washington County,Pennsylvania, in 1780; who "squatted" on land at Mingo Bottom on theupper Ohio River prior to November 1785; who, we believe, was in BourbonCounty, Kentucky, in 1786; and who, according to one descendant, died atthe age of 75, probably in Kentucky, in or about 1813.

"A. B. C. D. Daughters whose names were recalled by descendants ofhis son James, but for whom we have no further information: Perunia,Marjory, Martha, and Margaret. We have no basis for calculating theirdates of birth.

"E. William Sparks, Jr., born ca.1762, died ca.1799. The name ofhis wife has not been found. Information regarding him and his familycan be found in the QUARTERLY for September 1970, Whole No. 71, p. 1336;September 1971, Whole No. 75, p. 1416; March 1977, Whole No. 97, p. 1878;and Sep-tember 1980, Whole No. 111, p. 2240. His children were:

1. Caleb Sparks.
2. Joseph Sparks.
3. Mary Sparks.

"F. George Sparks, born ca.1764, died ca.1835. He was married (lst)to Elizabeth ["Betsey"] Wells, and (2nd) to Rachael McClanahan in 1805.Information regarding him and his family can be found in the QUARTERLY ofJune 1970, Whole No. 70, p. 1319; and December 1970, Whole No. 72, p.1370. His children were:

1. John Thornton Sparks.
2. Mary Sparks.
3. James Sparks.
4. Otho Sparks.
5. George Sparks, Jr.
6. Cytha Ann Sparks.
7. Ellen ["Nellie"] Sparks.
8. William Sparks.
9. Charles Sparks.

G. James Sparks, born ca.1765, died in 1855. He has beendiscussed at some length in the preceding pages. He may have been theJames Sparks who was taxed in Bourbon County, Kentucky, in 1790, 1795,and 1796. He may then have returned to Washington County, Pennsylvania,where he was mar-ried about 1798 to Margaret Ray. Information regardingJames Sparks and his family can be found in the QUARTERLY of March 1984,Whole No. 125, pp. 2588-2600; and June 1984, Whole No. 126, pp. 2612-36.When that re-cord was compiled, however, certain errors were made thathave been cor-rected in the pages of the present article. The twelvechildren of James and Margaret (Ray) Sparks were:

1. Martha ["Marthy'll Sparks.
2. Margaret Sparks.
3. Sarah Sparks.
4. William Sparks.
5. James Sparks.
6. Margery Sparks.
7. Mary Sparks.
8. Joseph Sparks.
9. Thomas Sparks.
10. Robert Sparks.
11. Allen Sparks.
12. Elizabeth Sparks.

"H. Michael Sparks, born ca.1769, died ??. He was married toElizabeth Wells, 1794. No further information.

"I. John Sparks, born ca.1770, died 1814. He was married toCatherine Waddel in 1792. Information regarding him and his family canbe found in the QUARTERLY of September 1972, Whole No. 79, p. 1498; andDecember 1980, Whole No. 112, p. 2262.

1. William Sparks.
2. Micha Sparks (daughter).
3. Jonas Sparks.
4. Elizabeth Sparks.
5. Martha Sparks.
6. Susan Sparks.
7. Catherine Sparks.

(For reasons of space, this article is concluded at the top of the notesof their son William Sparks, Jr.)

SQ p. 4752: "Coon and Sarah lived on Sinking Creek in Elliott County,Kentucky, where they had nine children."

SQ p. 3287:

"Ella Moorhead was born on October 25, 1868, in Clinton County, Indiana,and died on May 22, 1933. She
was married to Frank Hammel on February 17, 1891, and they resided inMahomet, Newcomb Township,
Champaign County, Illinois."

SQ p. 3948:
"Benjamin B. Morris, son of Pardon and Dianah (Sparks) Morris, wasborn on May 16, 1833. He became a Methodist preacher and also served asa justice of the peace. He served in the Confederate Army during theCivil War. He was married twice. His first marriage was to LouisaGriffith on October 17, 1852, and they had ten children.... (see familypage). Benjamin Morris married (2nd) Eliza (Osburn) Edwards, and theyhad two children...(see family page). Benjamin died in 1908."