See THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, June 2000, Whole No. 190, p. 5376:

"Eliza Narcissus Sparks, daughter of Matthew and Sarah (Elmore) Sparks,was born in Surry County, North Carolina, about 1827. On an Oregon landclaim record pertaining to her husband, John Lynch, it is stated thatthey were married on November 16, 1848. There is also the statement thatJohn Lynch had been born in Lafayette County, Missouri, on January 1,1827, and that they had come to Oregon from Missouri in 1851. Thissuggests that they crossed the plains with Eliza's parents. Eliza'smother, Sarah Sparks, was living with Eliza and John Lynch when she diedin June 1880, although when the 1860 census had been taken, she wasliving with her daughter, Malinda, and her husband, Aaron Lynch. She waswith Lucinda and husband, David Lynch in 1870, as was also, Eliza'sbrother, Richard Sparks.

The newspaper obituary for Sarah Sparks indicates that John and Elizawere then (1880) living near Sheridan, on Mill Creek, in Yamhill County.It was apparently Eliza who procured the tombstone for her mother in theUnion Baptist Church Cemetery there, for the inscription includes:"Mother of Eliza N. Lynch." The obituary for Sarah includes thestatement: "One of her daughters, Mrs. John Lynch, living on Mill Creek,has 16 children, all living but one."

When the 1870 census of Yamhill County was taken, John Lynch (age 48, anative of Missouri, farmer) and Eliza (age 43, a native of NorthCarolina) were shown with 12 children, ranging in age from 20 to 2 years.The oldest of these was named Elizabeth Lynch, age 20, and a native ofMissouri. The rest, beginning with their 19-year-old son, John Lynch,Jr., were all shown as having been born in Oregon. The children of Johnand Eliza N. (Sparks) Lynch listed on the 1870 census of Yamhill County,Oregon, were: Elizabeth, 20; John, 19; William, 17; Maelinda, 16; Albert(Elbert ?), 14; Ellison, 13; Isaac, 12; Francis, 8; Colla, 6; Mary, 5;George, 4; and Lilly, 2.

John Lynch died at Salem, Marion County, Oregon, on October 7, 1907,according to his land claim record.

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See THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, December 1992, Whole No. 160, pg 4036-4040:
Elizabeth Sparks, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Ricketts) Sparks,was born on August 9, 17--. (The year of her birth is now illegible, butwe place her birth as about 1730.) She was married to John Sinnot onOctober 28, 1755, in St. Lukes Church. A few days later, her father wasmarried there also, indicating that perhaps she had been keeping housefor him after her mother's death. We have learned nothing further abouther.
However, the IGI for Maryland as of March, 1992, at page 12,451, showsGeorge Sparks and Eliz. having a daughter, Elizabeth, on 7 Apr, 1732, atChurch Hill, Queen Annes, MD. See Batch/Film No. 7230711/ 10. Hermarriage to John Sinnot on October 28, 1755 is also entered , Batch/FilmNo. 7230711/52.

SQ p. 4042:

"Elizabeth Sparks, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Kelley) Sparks,was "of age" in 1764, and we place her year of birth as 1739. She wasmarried to a man named Russell. She attested as "nearest of kin" theaccount of her brother, Arthur Sparks, in 1766."

See THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, March 1964, Whole No. 75, p. 796

"Elizabeth Sparks, daughter of Jonas Sparks, was born February 5,1765, and died June 25, 1863, at the age of 98 in Missouri. She wasmarried in 1786 (Rowan County marriage bond dated February 11, 1786) toHenry Bryan, who was born January 15, 1761, and died August 20, 1820. Hewas a son of James and Rebecca (Knox) Bryan. Elizabeth was nine years ofage when the family left North Carolina for Kentucky. She and herhusband, Henry Bryan, were the parents of the following childrenaccording to a genealogy published in the Sunday editions of theLexington Herald between February 27 and May 29, 1927, by J. R. Cooper ofLexington."
(1) Joseph Bryan, married Parthenia Bryan, daughter of JonathanBryan;
(2) Susanna Bryan, married to John Davis;
(3) Joanna Bryan, born 1790, married Chester Wheeler;
(4) Rebecca Bryan, married Joseph Johnson;
(5) Elizabeth Bryan, married Luke Holder;
(6 ) Mary Bryan, married David Reed;
(7) Cynthia Bryan, married Alonzo Fourtelatt;
(8) James Bryan, died single;
(9) Esther Bryan, born May 20, 18O6, died A pril 15, 1860; marriedSamuel Morris who was born September 28, 1791, and died February 15, 1885;
(10) John Wesley Bryan, jockey; married Verlinda Callaway,granddaughter of Daniel Boone; moved to Texas."

See a reference to the marriage of Elizabeth Sparks and Henry Bryan inTHE BOONE FAMILY, by Hazel Aterbury Spraker, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1922, 1993, at page 511. Henry's mother, Rebecca Enocks, died when thechildren were quite young, and they were raised by Rebecca Boone, nieceof Henry' s father James. Rebecca was the the daughter of Joseph Boone,James's brother, and she was the wife of Daniel Boone as, according to anaccount in The Boone Family, Henry's sisters Susan, Mary and RebeccaBryan were all married in "uncle" Daniel Boone's house.

See THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, December 1998, Whole No. 184, pp. 5063-5072:

On the cover of the referenced issue is a photograph described asfollows:

GRAVESTONE OF ELIZABETH (SPARKS) BRYAN
Old Methodist Cemetery Near Marthasville, Warren County,Missouri
ELIZABETH
wife of
HENRY BRYAN
DIED
June 25,1863
AGED
97 yrs. 11mos.
20 ds.

"THE FAMILY OF ELIZABETH (SPARKS) BRYAN(1765-1863)

"On the cover of the present issue of the QUARTERLY we are using aphotograph of the tombstone of Elizabeth (Sparks) Bryan (1765-1863) whowas a daughter of Jonas Sparks. A lengthy article about Jonas Sparks,who died in Rowan County, North Carolina, in 1805, was published in theQUARTERLY of March 1964 (pp. 790-94) [JS: See above and notes for JonasSparks). We had not then discovered, however, that Jonas was a son ofJoseph Sparks, who had died in 1749 in Frederick County, Maryland. JosephSparks (died 1749), father of Jonas, had been the youngest son of WilliamSparks who had died in Queen Annes County, Maryland, in 1709. Twoarticles have appeared in the QUARTERLY devoted to William Sparks (died1709): the March 1971 issue, Whole No. 73, pp. 1425-34; and that forDecember 1992,Whole No. 160, pp. 4025-34. This William Sparks (died 1709)was thus the grandfather of Jonas Sparks. He had been born in HampshireCounty, England, ca. 1640 and is the immigrant Sparks ancestor ofhundreds, if not thousands, of individuals living today.

"When Jonas Sparks was about twenty years old in, we believe, thespring of 1754, he accompanied a number of his Sparks relatives in theirmove from Frederick County, Maryland, to the Forks of the Yadkin in NorthCarolina. Rowan County then included the large area known as the Forksof the Yadkin, but the part of Rowan County where Jonas acquired land wascut off from Rowan in 1822 to form Davidson County.

"The Sparks families migration from Maryland to the Yadkin River areaof North Carolina was described in the QUARTERLY of December 1989 (WholeNo. 148, pp. 3483-3501) in an article devoted to William Sample Sparks, afirst cousin of Jonas Sparks. Additional information about Jonas Sparksappears in an article devoted to Rachel (Sparks) Griggs, an older sisterof Elizabeth (Sparks) Bryan, in the June 1997 issue of the QUARTERLY,Whole No. 178, pp. 4829-37.

"The first wife of Jonas Sparks, and the mother of his children, hadthe forename Elizabeth, but we have not discovered her maiden name. Itis probable that they were married after Jonas came to North Carolina.Their daughter, named Elizabeth, was probably named for her mother.

"In the autumn of 1773, when Elizabeth was eight years old, JonasSparks and his family joined the famous frontiersman, Daniel Boone, thena near neighbor of the Sparkses, in Boone's plan to establish asettlement in what would become the state of Kentucky. In hisexplorations, Boone had found a "promised land" to which he would leadfamilies seeking a new home. Jonas Sparks and his family agreed toaccompany Boone along with four other families on the "Wilderness Trail"to this "promised land." The heads of these other four were DanielBoone's brother, Squire Boone, and three brothers named Bryan, James,Morgan, Jr., and William. (Daniel Boone's wife was Rebecca Bryan.)

"Among these six families, there were about forty males old,enough tocarry rifles, and it was they who took the lead on the party's dailymarch. The women and small children followed on horseback, whileyoungsters driving a herd of cattle brought up the rear.

"Although there was concern that they might encounter hostile Indians,all went well until October 10, 1773, as they were approaching theCumberland Gap. Here they had to ford the Powell River. The armed menand boys crossed first to form a line to protect the women and childrenas they crossed, assuming that if Indians should attack, they would do soat the front of the party. Instead, there was an ambush, with the attackfrom the rear. During the ensuing battle, six young men ,were killed,including Daniel Boone's oldest son. No one in the Sparks family waskilled. In Daniel Boone's autobiography, completed in 1784, he recalled:"Though we repulsed the enemy, yet this unhappy affair scattered ourcattle, brought us into extreme difficulty, and so discouraged the wholecompany, that we retreated forty miles to the settlement on the ClinchRiver." [JS: This account of the adventure differs substantially fromthe one written by Robert F. Collins which has been included in the notesfor Jonas Sparks.]

"Based on Bryan family memories and records, a great-grandnephew ofDaniel Boone, a Dr. J. D. Bryan, wrote an article entitled "TheBoone-Bryan History" that was published in the 1905 Register of theKentucky State Historical Society (Vol. 5, No. 9). Later this waspublished in the form of a booklet. In this, page 17, appears thefollowing interesting reference to eight-year-old Elizabeth Sparks:

... at the time of the attack by the Indians, the company wasfording Powell's River. Elizabeth Sparks, [a member of] one ofthe...families from North Carolina, then about nine years old, was ridinga gentle horse and carrying a baby brother before her. She was in themidst of the river when the Indians fired on the rear guard. My greatuncle [i.e., grand uncle] Henry Bryan, at a later date, married thisElizabeth Sparks in Kentucky, and they afterwards came to Missouri, wherethey lived until their death. She lived to be nearly one hundred yearsold. I have seen and heard her talk often. She finally died at myoldest sister's house after I was grown.

"An Indian War, known as Lord Dunmore's War, broke out not long afterthe Boone company's retreat, and two years passed before the journey wasbegun again. It appears that Jonas Sparks and his family had returned totheir old home on the Yadkin River in North Carolina well before June1775 when Daniel Boone again began his Kentucky venture. He and hisfollowers successfully reached the site on the Kentucky River where theybuilt Fort Boonsborough and founded the dreamed-of settlement, but JonasSparks and his family were not among them. Although Dr. Bryan stated inhis account (p. 15) that Jonas Sparks (whom he mistakenly called "James"Sparks) had accompanied Boone in 1775, this is, almost certainly, nottrue.

"On the cover of the QUARTERLY of September 1993, Whole No. 163, wepublished a photograph of a marble stone, some fifteen feet tall, at theentrance of the re-constructed Fort Boonesborough in Madison County,Kentucky, on the four sides of which have been carved 750 names ofpersons credited with helping to establish this settlement. The name ofJonas Sparks is included among the founders, and we so reported in thecaption for this photograph. When something is carved in stone, onetends to accept it as fact. The inclusion of Jonas on this monument as afounder, we have learned, was based solely on Dr. Bryan's account. Therecan be little doubt, based on official records in North Carolina,however, that Jonas Sparks was again paying taxes and farming his landback in Rowan County on the Yadkin River as early as 1774.

"Dr. J. D. Bryan was also mistaken in stating that his grand uncle,Henry Bryan, had been married to Elizabeth Sparks in Kentucky. Theirmarriage bond had been obtained back in Rowan County, North Carolina, onFebruary 11, 1786, with a relative named Thomas Enochs serving asbondsman. The marriage doubtless took place a few days later. A weekearlier, on February 5, 1786, Elizabeth's father, Jonas Sparks, hadobtained a Rowan County marriage bond to be married to his second wife, awidow named Mary Eakle (bondsman, Peter Little). Jonas Sparks wasactually Mary Eakle's third husband, her first husband having been DanielLittle, who had died in Rowan County in 1775. She had then been marriedto Jacob Eakle in 1779, but he died in Rowan County in 1783. By herfirst husband, Mary (whose full name was Anne Mary) had a daughter namedMary Little who would become the wife of David Sparks, a son of Jonas.(See the QUARTERLY of March 1978, Whole No. 101, pp. 1965-84.)

"Elizabeth (Sparks) Bryan's younger sister, Esther Sparks, was marriedin 1787 to Jesse Caton in Rowan County (marriage bond dated January 20,1787, with Charles Caton as bondsman).

"As noted above, Elizabeth Sparks was married to Henry Bryan in 1786.Born on January 27, 1761, Henry Bryan was a son of James and Rebecca(Enochs) Bryan. James Bryan was an uncle of Rebecca (Bryan) Boone, andafter the death of his wife in 1767 or 1768, his six small children weretaken by Rebecca and Daniel Boone to rear, including six-year-old Henry.Henry Bryan had been 12 years old when he accompanied the Boones on their1773 attempt to migrate to Kentucky.

"Whereas Jonas Sparks and his family, including his daughter,Elizabeth, had returned to their North Carolina home following the Booneparty's retreat to the Clinch River in the autumn of 1773, Henry Bryanhad remained with the Daniel Boone family and was a member of theirsuccessful migration to Boonsborough in 1775. When it was that HenryBryan returned to the Forks of the Yadkin, we do not know, but as notedearlier, he was there in February 1786 when he and Elizabeth Sparks weremarried. Within a year or two, however, they were living in ClarkCounty, Kentucky, where most of their ten children were born.

"Henry and Elizabeth's association with the family of Daniel Boonecontinued, and when Daniel's venturesome spirit prompted him and hisfamily to be pioneers again in an area that is today in St. Charles andWarren Counties, Missouri, Henry and Elizabeth soon followed. Otherfriends and relatives did, likewise, including Elizabeth's sister and herhusband, Esther and Jesse Caton. They obtained land grants from theSpanish government, Spain then ruling the area. Ken Kamper, Historian ofthe Daniel Boone and Frontier Families Research Association, has given uspermission to quote from his "A Fact or Two on Early Missouri History"that appeared in the April 1991 issue of the Boone-Duden HistoricalReview (Vol. 6, No. 2).

"In the area around present day Marthasville [in Warren County,Missouri], we can still relate to a lot of Boone history. The SpanishLand Grants of David Bryan, James Bryan, William Lamme, and Philip Millerare located in the area amongst earlier Spanish Land Grants which hadbeen obtained by French settlers. James Bryan, born, according tocurrent thinking, in 1723 in Chester Co., Pennsylvania, was RebeccaBoone's uncle. He had married Rebecca Enochs, daughter of John Ecochsonand Margaret Van Nummer, who died in 1767 or 68, leaving James with threeboys and three girls between the ages of one and ten. Rebecca and DanielBoone took over the raising of the children, while James remained closeby, no doubt providing support. They were with the Boones on the firstattempt to settle in Kentucky in 1773. On this attempt the group turnedback after some were killed by Indians, including the Boones' son James.With the Boone group was the Jonas Sparks family, including 8 year oldElizabeth. Some ten years later Elizabeth married Henry Bryan, son ofJames.

"The Boones came to Missouri in 1799. Soon after, James Bryan, hissons David, Jonathan, and Henry, and their families followed the Boones.The grave of Elizabeth (Sparks) Bryan is (south) across the street fromthe U.C.C. Church in Marthasville. The sister of Elizabeth, EstherSparks, married Jesse Caton, Sr., who brought his family to theMarthasville area in 1811.

"Mr. Kamper has also noted information provided by Nadine WilliamsBritton showing that Henry Bryan operated a tanning yard on Tuque Creeknot far from Alarthasville. Also appearing in the same publication asthe above quotation, is a drawing made by Mr. Kamper in 1991. showing thearea where Henry and Elizabeth (Sparks) Bryan settled, including the siteof Elizabeth's grave where the photograph was taken by Mr. Kamper thatappears on the cover of this issue of the QUARTERLY. He has given uspermission to reproduce his map on the following page.

"According to Mr. Kamper, the gravestone of Elizabeth (Sparks) Bryanis to be found in the Old Methodist Cemetery of Marthasville, across thestreet from the present United Church of Christ. He has added: "No doubtthere were many more burials in this cemetery years ago, however, only ahalf-dozen remain, and no record remains of the persons buried there."[JS: Map not reproduced]

"Henry Bryan died on August 20, 1820, in that part of MontgomeryCounty, Missouri, that became Warren County in 1833. Elizabeth had thusbeen a widow for nearly 43 years when she died. (Daniel Boone died onSeptember 26, 1820, and was buried close to where the Bryans lived inWarren County.

"Our record of the children of Henry and Elizabeth (Sparks) Bryan isfar from complete. They are believed to have had ten children; mostwere born in Kentucky. Dr. J. D. Bryan, whom we have quoted above, isknown to have compiled a Bryan "family tree," a portion of which agenealogist named J. H. Cooper included in the seventh part of an articlepublished in the Sunday edition of the LEXINGTON HERALD in the summer of1927. We have used this information, along with that compiled by one ofour members, Natine Williams Britton, in the compilation of the followingrecord. Mrs. Britton lives at 715 Sequoia Dr., Exeter, California93221-1324. She descends from the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth(Sparks) Bryan named Rebecca, born on April 8, 1790, in Clark County,Kentucky. Other data on the family of Henry and Elizabeth have beenfound in Lillian Hays Oliver's SOME BOONE DESCENDANTS AND KINDRED OF THEST. CHARLES DISTRICT (MISSOURI)."

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[JS NOTE: In May, 2001, I received an email from Leland Garton(moviegar47@@earthlink.net) who was a descendant of Henry and Elizabeth(Sparks) Bryan. His line was as follows:
Henry m. Elizabeth (Sparks) Bryan
Mary Bryan m. David Reed
Samual Bryan Reed m. Permelia Shackelford
Mary Melinda Reed m. Charles BlackburnHuddleston
John Samuel Huddleston m. Myra Jennie Beaver
Vernal Mae Huddleston m. WilliamSmith Garton
Leland Garton was born of thismarriage.
Mr. Garton provided a good deal of information as to the descendants ofDavid and Mary (Bryan) Reed for which I am grateful.]

SQ 2921: "Elizabeth Sparks, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Sparks,
was born on June 24, 1787, according to the instription on her tombstonein the
Indian Springs Cemetary near Everett, Pennsylvania. She never married.She
died on July 28, 1858. Her will was recorded on Page 267 of Will Book 4in the
Bedford County Courthouse. She left her estate to her brother, JosephSparks
(595), and to her nephew, Joseph H. H. Sparks.

See THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, September, 1972, Whole No. 79, pp. 1501-02:

Elizabeth Sparks, who was born about 1800, is believed to have been adaughter of John and Katharine (Waddell) Sparks. There is no reference toa daughter named Elizabeth in the 1825 deed (Nicholas County, Book G, p.90) where the other heirs of John Sparks were listed. However, KatharineSparks, widow of John, who made her will on January 6, 1843, mentioned(in Book C of Willis of Nicholas County, 1800-1896) the thirty-six-acrefarm "where I live with my daughter, Elizabeth." Earlier, on April 23,1835, Katharine Sparks and Elizabeth Sparks had purchased a 33-acre tracton Hinkaton Creek in Nicholas County for ten dollars from DrusillaThornburgh (Book L, p. 15). On March 9, 1836, Katharine and ElizabethSparks sold 35 acres of land for $1.00 to a man named Alvin Branch (BookL, p. 156). On November 19, 1838, Elizabeth Sparks purchased a tract of36 acres in Nicholas County for $333.33 from Pratt Hughes and his wifeSarah (Book L, p. 5147). She sold this to E, H. Wilson for $610 on May21, 1853 (Book P, p. 550).

This same Elizabeth Sparks made her will on December 6, 1867, which wasprobated at the February 1869 meeting of the Court in Nicholas County(thus we know that she died between December 1867 and February 1869). Inher will, Elizabeth Sparks named her children as Honor Sparks, SallyVarner, and Kitty H. Wilson. (This will is recorded in Book H, inNicholas County.) Katharine Sparks, widow of John Sparks, not only calledElizabeth her daughter in her own will of 1843, but she also leftone-third of her 36-acre farm to her "granddaughter, Honor Sparks."

One might speculate that Elizabeth Sparks was a daughter of Katharine(Waddell) Sparks by a previous marriage. Since she was listed on the 1850census as fifty years of age, however, this is unlikely since John andKatharine were married in 1792. It is possible that she was actually thedaughter-in-law of Katharine and was thus the widow of an unknown son,but this again seems highly unlikely. On the census records from 1810 to1840, a female is enumerated in the family of John and Katharine Sparkswhose age fits that of Elizabeth,
while no son is so enumerated.

We know from the will of Elizabeth Sparks that she had three daughters.Who was her husband? Was her maiden name Sparks, and did she marry a mannamed Sparks, or were her three children illegitimate? If the latter isthe case, we can speculate that her father may have disowned her andomitted her from the division of his property, while her mother laterbrought her into her own home, Perhaps someday a descendant will be ableto provide us with the truth. Following is the information we have beenable to gather regarding Elizabeth’s
three children: (See notes for children.)

WILLS OF PERSONS NAMED SPARKS IN NICHOLAS COUNTY, KENTUCKY, 1800-1896

Abstracted by Paul E. Sparks

Book H. Elizabeth Sparks, to daughters: Honor Sparks, Sally Varner, andKitty H. Wilson. Signed 6 December 1867. Probated in the February 1869term of Court.

SQ 795: "Elizabeth Sparks, daughter of Jonas Sparks, Jr., and his wifeAnna (Caton) Sparks, was born between 1797 and 18O5. On May 7, 18O7, heruncle, David Sparks, was appointed her guardian; she was called "BetseySparks" on this record. On February 16, 1815, Samuel Jones was made herguardian in place of David Sparks, who was about to move to Tennessee. Itwas probably this Elizabeth Sparks who married Benjamin Dulin in 1815(Rowan County marriage bond dated December 9, 1815; David Call, bondsman;John Marsh, Sr., witness)"

SQ p. 4052: "Elizabeth Sparks, daughter of Solomon and Catherine(Hillegas) Sparks, was born on July 20, 1800, and died on May 5, 1832, atWinchester, Ohio. She was married to Samuel Cornelius on July 20, 1820.Judge Sparks could find no further information regarding her, nor havewe."

!NOTES:
SQ pg 807: "Elizabeth (or Betsey) Sparks, daughter of David and Ma ry
(Little) Sparks, was probably born in Rowan County, North Carolina . Allthat
is known of her is that she married a man named Jarvis."

SQ 3547-3548 re this family.

!NOTES:
SQ 3O76-7: "Elizabeth Sparks, daughter of Abel and Sarah (Cochran )Sparks,
was born on April 13, 18O5, probably in North Carolina. She marrie d John
McMannus (or McManus) in Washington County, MO, on April 24, 1828 (o r1829).
She had died prior to the settlement of her brother's estate in 188O .Three
surviving children were identified in those estate papers: Charles McMannus,
Ann McMannus and Ellen (McMannus) Rose.

See SQ 392: Elizabeth Sparks, daughter of Geroge and Delila Sparks,married Mordecai Samuels.
See SQ 3706.

See SQ p. 5288:

Elizabeth ["Betsy"] Sparks was born on January 10, 1811. She was marriedto Mordecai Samuels.
According to a descendant, he had been born around 1810 in NorthCarolina, and they had the following children:

(1) Lucinda Samuels, born 1829, married George Wilcoxson.
(2) Susan Samuels, born 1834, married Daniel Wilcoxson.
(3) William R. Samuels.
(4) Sarah Samuels.
(5) Nancy Samuels.
(6) Delilah Samuels, born 1846; she was married to James C.Wilcoxson.
(7) James Samuels.

!NOTES:
SQ pg 2928 contains short paragraph on Elizabeth, her marriage t oWilson L.
Weeks, and their only child, David Weeks.

See THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, June 2002, Whole No. 198, pp 5697-98:

Elizabeth Sparks, born October 4, 1812, is believed to have been theyoungest child of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Hicks) Sparks. She was marriedin Burke County, North Carolina, about 1833 to Henry Craig. He had beenborn in Burke County, North Carolina, on September 10, 1804. As we havenoted earlier, it appears that Henry Craig served as trustee for Benjaminand Elizabeth Sparks in their old age in Caldwell County, North Carolina,and when the 1860 census was taken, Elizabeth, age 80, widow of Benjamin,was living in the family of Henry Craig. Both Henry and Elizabeth(Sparks) Craig died in 1881, Henry on May 11th and Elizabeth on December10th. Their graves are in a small cemetery that was included in a 1940survey of cemeteries in Caldwell County, North Carolina. Located near thetown of Lenoir, the Henry Craig Cemetery was described as follows:"Location--Leave highway #18 near Gamewell School on R.F.D. #3 and go tothe Ben King Farm. Condition, fair." Seven gravestones were copiedpertaining to persons named Bentley, Clark, and Craig. Those with thename Craig were copied as follows

Elizabeth Craig, died Dec. 10, 1881. Age 69 yrs. 2 mo. 6 da. Wife ofHenry Craig.
Henry Craig, died May 11, 1881. Age 76 yrs. 7 mos. 1 da.
M. J. Craig, died Mar. 13, 1878. Age 2 yrs. 7 mo. 18 da.
We wonder whether 2-year-old M. J. Craig may have been a grandchild ofHenry and Elizabeth (Sparks) Craig.
From census records, it appears that Henry and Elizabeth (Sparks) Craigwere the parents of ten children:

William Craig, born about 1835.
Sarah Eveline Craig, born April 15, 1836.
James Craig, born about 1839.
Susan Craig, born about 1841.
Myra Craig, born about 1842.
John Craig, born about 1844.
Mary Craig, born about 1846.
Clarissa Craig, born about 1848.
Nancy Craig, born about 1851.
Martha Craig, born about 1853.
Information regarding Henry and Elizabeth (Sparks) Craig has beenprovided to us by Margie M. Bertie of Titusville, Florida, a descendantof their daughter, Sarah Eveline Craig. As noted above, Sarah Eveline wasborn on April 15, 1836; she was married in Caldwell County, NorthCarolina, on February 17, 1859, to Noah J. Bentley. He was born in 1834in Wilkes County, North Carolina, and died on or about September 1, 1864,at Point Lookout, Maryland. Mrs. Bertie is a great-great-granddaughter oftheir daughter, Mary E. Bentley (1864-1919) and her husband, Julius AdamPrestwood (18581906).

See THE SPARKS QUARTERLY June 2000, Whole No. 190, pp 5373-75:

Elizabeth Sparks, daughter of Matthew and Sarah (Elmore) Sparks, was bornin Surry County, North Carolina, on January 29, 1825, and died on November 30, 1857, in Glenn County, California. These dates are found on oneside of the monument shown on page 5373. Below is a photograph of theside of this monument devoted to Elizabeth (Sparks) White. We have foundno further information about her.

[There appears a photograph on page 5373 (see in scrapbook here), beneathwhich is the following caption:]

A SPARKSMONUMENT IN AN ABANDONED CALIFORNIA CEMETERY

A clipping was sent to this writer (Dr. Russell Bidlack) in 1966 from anissue of the WillowsDaily Journal, a newspaper published in Willows,California. Included was a photograph reproduced above. The article hadbeen written by a correspondent named Marge Pattison who had visited asmall, abandoned cemetery in the Ord Bend community of Glenn County,California. Ms. Pattison noted that, while most of the grave stones werebroken and overgrown with weeds and brush, there was one still stand mg,though damaged. She wrote of it as follows:

The most noticeable monument in the cemetery is a square one ofmarble set among the old oak trees, which emits a pale, golden glow. Itstill stands, although a little tilted, but the spire that once crownedit lies broken on the ground.

The names and dates on this majestic monument indicate that twobrothers and a sister were buried here. The dates also reveal that alldied too young. One wonders if an epidemic of typhoid or smallpox tookthem, or perhaps, if they were victims of another type of tragedy.

The three names inscribed on sides of the marble slate are:Hugh Sparks, born April 15, 1829 - died December 20, 1858; Isaac Sparks,born February 11, 1820 - died November 1, 1867; Elizabeth White, bornJanuary 29, 1825 - died November 30, 1857. Under the sister's name is anepitaph of loving words which must have been uttered by brothers ingrief: "Although Her Earthly Sun Is Set, Its Light Shall Linger On UsYet."

One ponders the lives of these pioneers, and wonders if thehusband of the young woman, only 32 years of age when taken, lived a longlife and was buried in some other graveyard, or if his monument hascrumbled or been destroyed.

We published a query regarding these Sparks siblings in the QUARTERLY ofJune 1966, Whole No. 54, p.986, and learned later that they were childrenof Matthew and Sarah (Elmore) Sparks, as identified in items g, j, and min the list of the children of Matthew and Sarah. We have learned little,however, regarding the lives of Isaac, Elizabeth, and Hugh.

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Another photo appears on page 5375 of the gravestone of Elizabeth(Sparks) White, mentioned above. See it in the scrapbook

SQ 5316:

Elizabeth Sparks, daughter of Joseph and Sabra (Demmit) Sparks, was bornabout 1827. She was married on September 2, 1843, to Robert Evans inAdams County, Indiana . We have no further information about her .

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!NOTES:
SPARKS QUARTERLY, March 1994, Whole No. 165, p. 4276 states: Elizabeth
Sparks, daughter of Jesse and Nancy Sparks, was born about 1833. Sh e was
married to Daniel Sparks and they had ten children:
Allen Jesse, Nancy, Bruce, Rachel, Eli, Sarah, Louisa, James, Joh n and
Henry.

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!NOTES:
SQ pg 2649: She was living with her father with the 1850 census w astaken of Titus County, Texas, but not further record of her has be enfound.

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SQ pg 4462: Shadrach was a captain in Company D, 17th Regiment Te xasInfantry, Confederate States Army, during the Civil War. He serv ed assheriff of Lampasas County, Texas, from 1870 to 1874. He and B etty hadsix children, including an unamed child who died at birth . Betty diedon July 21, 1861, just a few days after the birth of he r sixth child.

SQ p. 2626:

"Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Sparks, daughter of Thomas and Martha (Loveless)Sparks, was born on October 13, 1840. She was married to John FranklinCrick on January 2, 1862, in Clinton County. He was born on December 23,1837, in Rockbridge County, Virginia, and was a son of John and AnnaCatherine (Clenuner) Crick. John was a soldier in the Union forces duringthe Civil War. He died on October 31, 1910, and Lizzie died on May 4,1912. They were buried in the Bunnell Cemetery at Frankfort, Indiana.They had seven children."

See her photograph on the cover of Whole No. 143 of the SPARKS QUARTERLYin the scrapbook of her brother James and a photo of her children on SQp. 2627 and in her scrapbook.

SQ p. 817 for marriage information.

SQ 3902: "Elizabeth Sparks, daughter of Matthew and Alsey (Osburn )Sparks, was born about 1842. She was married to James McDowell onFebruary 1 4, 1874, at the home of her father in Johnson County[Kentucky]. Witnesses were her brothers, Henry Sparks and NathanSparks. According to relatives, James and Elizabeth McDowell had atleast two children, Mathis L. and Jemima E."

.

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SQ 3192: "Elizabeth Sparks, daughter of Solomon and Malinda (Caudi ll)
Sparks, was born about 1846 in North Carolina. She was married to Is aac
Sexton, probably about 1864. She died in 1924 and was buried in th e Zoar
Cemetery at Cainsville, Missouri. According to the 1880 census of Me rcer
County, Missouri, she and Isaac had ten children: Joseph W., James A.,
Mary J., John W., Isaac N., Laura H., Sarah E., Frank J., Lillie Mae , and
Kateslea."

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SQ 3863: Elizabeth Sparks, daughter of Dianna (and --- Kozee), wa sborn on November 9, 1847, in Johnson County. She was married to Ja mesH. Clark, and they had seven children: Alec, Robert, Thomas, Osc ar, Ad,Dianna and Almedia.

SQ 3273: "Elizabeth Sparks, daughter of William and Cynthia (Hawkins)Sparks was born on February 17, 1851, in Tazewell County, Virginia . Itwas there that she married John Tyler Sparks on July 9, 1867. He wasborn on July 6, 1841, in Wilkes County, North Carolina, and was a son ofRichmond and Sarah (Pruitt) Sparks who had moved from Wilkes County toTazewell County about 1865. (John Tyler Sparks was a great-grandson ofJohn Sparks (359), brother of Reuben Sparks (360), subject of thisarticle; thus he and Elizabeth were third cousins. See the December 1955issue of SQ, Whole No. 12, for further information about the lineage ofJohn Tyler Sparks. See also ANNALS OF TAZEWELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 1925.
"John Tyler Sparks died on February 21, 1906; Elizabeth died onDecember 4, 1920. They were the parents of 10 children.
(1) Cynthia Sparks b. June 11, 1868. She m. Robert Lee Linkous, ca.1886. They had nine children: Otis E.; Bessie Lee; Fred; Frank;Clarence; John T., Jr.; Cavie; William; and Thomas.
(2) Sarah Sparks was born on January 22, 1871. She married Thomas H.Dillon and they had three children: Robert, Mollie, and Pearl.
(3) William J. Sparks was born on Marcy 18, 1873. On December 23 ,1986, he m. Maude Christian in Tazewell County, Virginia. She was bornon June 1, 1876, and was a daughter of Crockett and Betty (Harrison)Christian. She died on May 15, 1900; William died on December 25, 1952.They were members of the Salem Primitive Baptist Church at Dry Fork,Virginia. They had two children: Myrtle M. and Vivian.
(4) Mary J. Sparks was born on August 7, 1875. She married Andrew J.Harman and they had three children: William, Graham, and Violet.
(5) Rebecca Sparks was born on May 14, 1878. She married JohnFranklin Beavers on april 9, 1902. He was born on March 12, 1877.Rebecca died on March 10, 1950. She and John had four children:Theresa, Willeta, Clarence, and Lawrence.
(6) Tacie Sparks was born on May 14, 1880. She married Augustus W.Griffiths on January 11, 1906. He was born on November 19, 1864. He andTacie had two children: Myrtle and Daisy.
(7) John L. Sparks was born on November 21, 1872. He died when quiteyoung.
(8) Nancy "Nannie" Sparks was b. May 1, 1885.
(9) Lily Cavie Sparks was born on April 2, 1888. She died when quiteyoung.
(10) Bessie D. Sparks was b. July 4, 1891. She married Frank Pruett,and they had two children: Gussie and Willie."

SQ 332: See Record of Births in Kentucky, 1852-1862 for location ofElizabeth's birth.

SQ 3861: Elizabeth "Bim" Sparks was born on May 28, 1855. She wasmarried to George Kozee, a son of Benjamin Kozee. Bim died about 1900,and George died about 1925. They had six children: Charles, Lewis,Frank, Ida, Nickie, and Minnie Belle.

SQ pg. 332 for birth information.

SQ pg 4067:

"Elizabeth ("Betsey") Sparks, daughter of John L. and Polly (Hay)Sparks, was born on December 29, 1855. When the 1880 census was taken,she was shown in the household of her mother, Mary ( i.e. Polly) Sparks,in Scott County, Virginia. She was listed as Elizabeth Sparks, aged 23,born in Kentucky. Also in the household were two grandchildren of MarySparks, Ava V. Sparks, aged 3, and Charlie Sparks, aged 2, both shown ashaving been born in Virginia. Perhaps they were children of Elizabeth.We have found no further record of her."

SQ 3873:

"Elizabeth "Lizzie" Sparks was married to Jesse Monroe Riggs, a son ofHenry and Julia Riggs. They had two children, William and Howard."

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SQ 1358: "Elizabeth Sparks, born Aug. 3O, 1893; married Cam Summer s,born
1888. They had (1) Elsie J. Summers, born Sept. 24, 1925; and (2) Et helJean
Summers, born Sept. 26, 1927."

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SQ pg. 8O1: "Elizabeth (Betsey) Sparks, daughter of William. Sh emarried
John Boulwar or Boulvare in Rowan County, North Carolina, in 18O1. S hehad
apparently died prior to 1865 when her brother Hampton's estate was settled,
for reference was made simply to B. Boulvare's heirs."

SQ 1981: "Elizabeth Sparks (called Betsy), daughter of Cornelius an dSusannah
(Stevens) Sparks, was born July 26, 1821, in Wayne County, Indiana, a nddied on
April 25, 1896. She was married to Burton Jarvis on January 2, 184O . Hewas a
son of Zadock and Lucy (Owens) Jarvis and was born in Rowan County, N orth
Carolina on September 6, 1816. He died on January 2, 19O2. When th eestate of
Burton Jarvis was settled in 1903, it was stated that "Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis died
without issue and without a will." (JS: Must have meant 'without iss ue
surviving.') However, census records would seem to indicated that the yhad as
many as five children, but all but have died young. These were:
(1) John Jarvis, born about 1845; listed as 15 on the 185O census.
(2) Lucy Jarvis, born about 1843; listed as 17 on the 185O census.
(3) Zadok (or Zed) Jarvis, born about 1848; listed as 12 in 186O.
(4) Susy E. Jarvis, born about 185O; listed as 10 on the 186O cens us.
(5) Joseph A. Jarvis, born about 1851; listed as 9 on the 1860 cen sus.
When the 187O census was taken, no children were listed as living wit hBurton
and Elizabeth (Sparks) Jarvis.

THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, June 1985, Whole No. 130, p. 2751;

DESCENDANTS F WILLIAM SPARKS (1761-1848)

"Elizabeth C. Sparks, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Cooper)Sparks was born about 1818 in Lawrence County, Mississippi. She wentwith her parents to Yazoo County, Mississippi, about 1826 where theysettled in an area that would become Holmes County in 1833. It wasprobably there that she was married to Samuel Everett Rogers about 1834.He had been born about 1809 in Tennessee. Shortly after their marriage,Sam and Elizabeth moved to Texas where their first child was born onSeptember 18, 1835. Just two weeks earlier, Sam had been granted a"League and Labor" of land by the Mexican Government. The land waslocated in what would become Montgomery County in 1837.

"Sam Rogers fought in the Texas-Mexican War and after the war ended,he moved his family to his land in Montgomery County. They stayed thereuntil the spring of 1841 when they sold the land and returned toNacogdoches County. Three years later, Sam purchased land northeast ofTyler in Smith County. Here he was elected as one of the countycommissioners and it was here that the family was listed on the 1850census.

"Elizabeth (Sparks) Rogers died about 1851, probably at the time theiryoungest child was born, and the family broke up. Some of the childrenwent to live with their mother's relatives and in 1860, Frank Rogers, 16,and his sister, Mary Rogers, 11, were living in the household of theiruncle, Stephen Franklin Sparks, in McLennan County. Living nearby wastheir brother , William Rogers, 18, in the household of their uncle,James Hawkins Sparks.

"By June 1854, Samuel Rogers was again living in Nacogdoches Count y.With him were his sons, William E. Rogers and Joseph F. Rogers. In 1858, Sam was in Erath County living in the home of his son, James CarrollRogers , who had married two years earlier and was living on a ranch.Both Sam and his son were members of the Erath County Malitia which hadbeen organized to protect the inhabitants from Indian raids.

"The military service of Sam Rogers was probably the cause of hisdeath on May 3, 1863. He had been asked to guard a neighbor's housewhile the neighbor was away, and on his way back to his home thefollowing day, Sam Rogers was attacked and killed by roving Indians. Hisdaughter-in-law, Mrs. James C. Rogers, later rescued his body, and he wasburied on his son's ranch with rocks marking the site of the grave. Manyyears later, his grandson and namesake, James Everett Rogers, placed abronze plaque at the grave, and other descendants enclosed the grave witha chain link fence.

"The grave site of Elizabeth (Sparks) Rogers is unknown; however, atleast one descendant believes there is a possiblity that she was buriedin Nacogdoches County. There is a spot that old-timers call "The SparksCemetary" which is located within the Sparks Survey. This is a piece ofland that Richard Sparks sold to his brother James Sparks, and to hissister, Sarah McAnulty, and is located near the water tower, northwest ofthe town of Nacogdoches. Samuel Everett and Elizabeth (Sparks) Rogershad six children.

(1) James Carroll Rogers, b. September 18, 1835 in Nacogdoches Co.,Texas and died on December 13, 1912, at Clinton, Oklahoma. He and hiswife Nancy Elizabeth Howard, had sixteen children.

(2) William Everett Rogers, b. November 27, 1841, in Nacogdoches Co., Texas and died December 25, 1909 at Midland, Texas. He and his wifeVirginia Amazon Purtell had nine children.

(3) Joseph Franklin "Frank" Rogers b. February 27, 1844 and died in1929. He and his wife Susie E. Davis had three children.

(4) Thomas M. Rogers was born ca. 1846 and died in 1864 in the CSA.

(5) John Marion Rogers was born February 17, 1848 and died January1, 1926. He and his wife Lavinia Jane Smith had nine children.

(6) Mary Ann Elizabeth Rogers was b. ca. 1850.

(More details of their children and their decendants may be found in theSQ from pages 2752 to 2756)

SQ p. 2681:

"Elizabeth C. Sparks was born in December 1852. She married Reuben J.Allen an November 5, 1868, in Carroll Ccunty, Missouri. They had at leastnine children: William J. Allen, Marion Ely Allen, Susie V. Allen, MaryJ. Allen, Oliver Allen, Annie Allen, Leora A. Allen, Christine Allen, andPenelope Allen.

See THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, December 1995, Whole No. 172, pp. 4574-77:

"The 1899 Letter Written by Bettie C. Smith --With Notes

"On page 4555 of the present issue of the QUARTERLY, we noted that adaughter of Isaac and Orpha (Thompson) Sparks was named Elizabeth E.Sparks; her nickname was Bettie. When the 1850 census was taken ofCarroll County, Tennessee, she was shown as living in the home of herfather and her step-mother, Isaac and Jane L. (Donnell) Sparks. Bettie'sage appeared as twenty-two on this 1850 census, placing her birth year ator about 1828.

"Elizabeth ["Bettie"] Sparks was married twice, first, about 1851, toWill Carson, and, second, to a man named Smith. On the one occasionwhere we have a record of her signature (in 1899), she signed her name as"Bettie C. Smith." We believe that she used the letter 'IC" as theinitial for her first married name, Carson.

"The letter written by Bettie C. Smith in 1899, the contents of whichhave been preserved, provides interesting family history, and it has beenused by a number of descendants of Mrs. Smith's great- grandparents inattempting to trace their Sparks lineage. Many years ago, we publishedthis letter in the QUARTERLY (the June 1961 issue, Whole No. 34, pp.556-57), but, because we have included its author among the descendantsof Nathan Sparks in the present issue, we are printing it again.

"This letter, dated March 11, 1899, was addressed to Bettie Smith'snephew, Samuel ["Sammie"] T. Sparks, son of her brother, William MatthewSparks (see pp. 4556-57). "Sammie" Sparks, then thirty-four years old,was living in the town of McKenzie in Carroll County, Tennessee, in1899. As Mrs. Smith hoped, he saved her letter, and in 1937, VeraRunmons of Centerville, Tennessee, made a copy of it for a lawyer inCenterville named William Levi Pinkerton. Pinkerton was a grandson ofHannah Sparks (1824-1893), wife of Levi G. Murphree (1820-1892). Hannah(Sparks) Murphree was a daughter of Jesse Sparks (1773-1848) who was abrother of Nathan Sparks. At some point, the Pinkerton copy of thisletter became part of a collection of genealogical material in theTennessee State Library known as the "Hickman Co., Tenn., Bible, Familyand Tombstone Records." Jesse Sparks (1773-1848) had lived in HickmanCounty and had carefully preserved various Sparks family documents. Acopy was made of Bettie Smith's letter for us by William P. Johnson in1948.

"Bettie Smith wrote this letter to her nephew with the hope that hewould preserve it. She wanted to record what she remembered having beentold many years earlier regarding her Sparks ancestors, particularly asrelated by her granduncle, Matthew J. Sparks (1759-1841). Unfortunately,Mrs. Smith made a serious error in her letter that has caused a greatdeal of confusion among Sparks family historians. When she mentioned hergreat-grandfather, Matthew Sparks, who died in 1793, she erroneously gavehis name as "John." The fact that Matthew had a son named John as wellas a son named Matthew, may have caused this confusion, or she may alsosimply have made a slip of the pen. In reproducing her letter here, wehave substituted the correct name for Bettie Smith's great--grandfather,in brackets, rather than to perpetuate this mistake. Additional notesfollow the text of this letter.

'Sammie:
The older ones are, or will soon be all gone; when you get to beolder, you will want to know more than now, who was your ancestors. WhenI was a child old Uncle Matthew Sparks made his home with his brother,Issac, but spent much of his time with Father and Mamma. I learned ofhim more than from anyone else. His Father was named [Matthew], hisMother was Sarah Thompson (Sally Tyson, was named for her), he crossedthe waters, I never have known where he was raised; Sally Tyson thoughthe came from Wales. I do not know where he married. He went out to killa turkey one morning, and was shot by Indians. He left eleven children,nine red-headed boys and two girls. Here are the names of the boys:David, James, William, Mathew, Absolom, Jessie, Nathan, Baily, Hardy, &Isaac. The girls names were Eady and Ann, one of them married a Trayler.

'Mathew fought in the Revolution, don't know how many more. Theyfought the Tories for all they were worth. John, Captain, and Mathew,Lieutenant. They got up one morning, horses all gone but one, (I guessthat was in Georgia) they sit Granny, and a bed for her, and started forthe fort twenty-five miles bare-headed; there they stayed seven years.Uncle Isaac was five years old, and brother & sister swung by his arm allthe way. Old Grandma buried at Old Pleasant Grove; the piece of shirtthe ball went through when her husband was killed, was buried with her. Ido not know so much of Thompson kin; Grandma Thompson was ElizabethSuduth; Grandma Sparks was Nancy Hancock. My notion is that if we haveany mean streaks in us, it did not come through the Sparks, while many ofthem have become adulterated; but the good ones were sure enough good.You may not care to ever read this, but I don't care, I am going to sendit anyway. March llth, 1899

Bettie C. Smith'

"As shown on page 4555, the writer of this letter, Bettie C. Smith(Elizabeth E. Sparks), was the mother of two children by her firsthusband, Will Carson, but we have not succeeded in locating any of theirdescendants.

"The "old Uncle Mathew Sparks" mentioned early in her letter, wasMatthew J. Sparks (1759-1841), sometimes called Matthew Sparks, Jr. Hewas Bettie Smith's granduncle, he being a brother of her grandfather,Nathan Sparks. (See the QUARTERLY of September 1984, Whole No. 127, pp.2644-69, for a record of the life and descendants of Matthew J. Sparks.)The Isaac Sparks, brother of Matthew J. Sparks, with whom Matthew madehis home when Mrs. Smith was a little girl, lived in Carroll County,Tennessee, as did Mrs. Smith's father, who was also named Isaac, son ofNathan Sparks. Isaac, son of Nathan, was called "Isaac Sparks, Jr." inorder to distinguish him from his uncle of the same name. The elderIsaac Sparks, son of Matthew and Sarah (Thompson) Sparks, had been bornabout 1780; he died in 1869. His wife's name was Wilmoth Noland (orKnowland).

"Matthew J. Sparks (or Matthew Sparks, Jr.) had served in the AmericanRevolution, and during his old age, he was granted a pension for thatservice. (See the QUARTERLY of December 1956, Whole No. 16, pp. 179-182,for transcripts of his pension file.) From his pension papers preservedat the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and from data found incensus records, we know that his wife, Margaret Sparks, had died prior to1830 and that in 1831, Matthew J. Sparks moved from Arkansas to CarrollCounty, Tennessee, to live with his brother, Isaac Sparks, Sr. and to benear his nephew, Isaac Sparks, Jr. He was still living with his brotherwhen the 1840 census was taken, but by September of that year, he hadmoved to Clinton County, Illinois, to live with his daughter, Jane(Sparks) Steele. It was there that he died on August 14, 1841. Thus, weknow that Bettie Smith had known her granduncle during the time between1831 and 1840, when she was between the ages of about three and twelve.It is not surprising that she erred in her memory of certain details inrecounting stories she had heard as a child from Matthew J. Sparks.

"In the QUARTERLY of June 1961, Whole No. 34, we provided biographicalinformation on the elder Matthew Sparks, who was killed by Indians inNovember 1793 when he went out to kill a wild turkey. There we also gavethe texts of several court documents of later date by which Sarah Sparksand several of her sons attempted (with some success) to obtaincompensation from the U.S. Congress for their many losses of property tothe Creek Indians. From these, we know that the Sparks family's retreatfrom their Georgia land holdings to the fort, as described by Mrs. Smith,occurred after the elder Matthew's death in November 1793. From thesedocuments, we learn, also, that the fort in Franklin County to which theyfled was called "Sparks Fort."

"Bettie Smith's "Father and Mamma," in whose home Mathew J. Sparks wasa frequent visitor, were, of course, Isaac Sparks, Jr. (1805-1878) andhis first wife, Orpha (Thompson) Sparks (1806-1842). After Orphalsdeath, Isaac had been married to Jane L. Donnell.

"Sally Tyson, whom Bettie Smith noted had been named for Sarah(Thompson) Sparks, Sally's grandmother, was a daughter of Isaac, Sr. andWilmoth (Noland) Sparks. She had been born about 1821 so was only a fewyears older than her cousin's daughter, Bettie Smith. Sally Tyson wasmarried to Samuel Tyson in Carroll County, Tennessee, on January 8,1845. Samuel Tyson apparently died before 1850, and Sally, along withher son, Isaac S. Tyson, who had been born in or about 1846, were shownon both the 1850 and 1860 censuses of Carroll County as living withSally's parents. As Mrs. Smith indicated, Sally Tyson had also heard thestories told by Matthew J. Sparks.

"Bettie Smith's statement that her great-grandfather, Matthew Sparks,had "crossed the waters," and her statement that Sally Tyson had thoughthe had come from Wales, are both false. It is a truism in genealogicalresearch that the identity of a family's immigrant ancestor is oftenthought to be that of one of his/her descendants. There is ampleevidence that the immigrant ancestor of this branch of the Sparks familyhad been Matthew Sparks's great-grandfather, William Sparks, who had diedin Queen Annes County, Maryland, in 1709. Matthew Sparks's migration hadbeen from Maryland to North Carolina and, finally, to Georgia. (See theQUARTERLY of December 1989, Whole No. 148, pp. 3484-3501, and that ofJune 1961, Whole No. 34, pp. 556-566.)

"It was in or about 1784 that Matthew Sparks had moved, with most ofthe members of his large family, from their residence on New River inwhat is now Ashe County, North Carolina (then still part of WilkesCounty), to land located east of the Oconee River in Franklin County,Georgia. Prior to the Revolution, these lands had been occupied by theCreek Indians.

"The Creek Indians strongly protested the loss of their Georgia land,and under their able leader, Alexander McGillivroy, a half-breed withScottish ancestry, they kept up for several years, in that irregular,desultory manner so common to Indian warfare, a series of depredations onthe white settlements along the Georgia frontier. Spain also claimedthis land and signed a treaty with McGillivroy in 1784 under which theSpanish gave the Indians aid and encouragement. This struggle, whichlasted twelve years, is called the Oconee War.

"Bettie Smith's statement that "they sit Granny and a bed," probablymeans that a wagon, pulled by their one remaining horse, was used totransport at least a portion of the family's possessions, including a bedon which "Granny" sat. "Granny" refers to Sarah (Thompson) Sparks, widowof Matthew, who had been killed earlier. Sarah survived this ordeal,living until August 23, 1831.

"It is not surprising that in 1899 Bettie Smith had difficultyrecalling the number and names of the children of her great-grandparents,Matthew and Sarah (Thompson) Sparks. Stating that, at his death, Matthewhad left eleven children, including nine sons and two daughters, she thennamed ten sons. There were actually eleven sons, however, includingJohn, whom she omitted from the list. Her omission was a slip of thepen, however, because later she stated that John had been a captain inthe Revolutionary War while Matthew J. had been a lieutenant. Webelieve, however, that John's rank was never above that of lieutenant,while Matthew J. Sparks was not an officer. (It is not uncommon fordescendants of Revolutionary War soldiers to promote them to a highermilitary rank than they had enjoyed in real life.) Bettie Smith wouldhave had no personal knowledge of John Sparks, who had been born in 1755and was one of Matthew and Sarah's oldest sons, because some two yearsbefore his father was killed, John had moved to South Carolina. (See theQUARTERLY of March 1966, Whole No. 53, p. 961.)

"Bettie Smith was correct in stating that one of the daughters ofMatthew and Sarah (Thompson) Sparks had been married to a "Trayler." Thiswas Eady (or Edy) Sparks who been married to Randolph Traylor; they wereliving in Clark County, Georgia, in 1807. Mrs. Smith was also correct instating that Matthew J. Sparks and his brother, John, had "fought theTories." Matthew's pension papers form an important source of informationon this branch of the Sparks family. (See the QUARTERLY of Decembr 1956,Whole No. 16, pp. 179-182, for a transcript of these papers.)

"In her statement that "Grandma Thompson was Elizabeth Suduth," Mrs.Smith referred to her maternal grandmother. Orpha (Thompson) Sparks,Bettie Smith's mother, had been a daughter of Moses and Elizabeth(Suddeth) Thompson. The "Grandma Sparks" to whom Mrs. Smith referred wasNancy (Hancock) Sparks, second wife of Nathan Sparks; Nancy had been bornin 1782 and was a daughter of Martin Hancock. (See page 4550 of thepresent issue of the QUARTERLY.)

"Bettie Smith provides our only source for the maiden name of hergreat-grand-mother, Sarah (Thompson) Sparks. The name Thompson is verycommon, and we seriously doubt that there was any relationship betweenSarah (Thompson) Sparks, who died in 1831, and Orpha (Thompson) Sparks(1806-1842), Bettie's mother."

SQ p. 3561:

DEATH TAKES ELIZABETH (SPARKS) McCANN

We regret to report the death of one of our most loyal and generousmembers, Elizabeth Joyce (Sparks) McCann, who passed away on August 21,1989, at her home in Sun City, Arizona. She is survived by her husband,William R. McCann, and four sons, W. R., Jr. of Springfield, Virginia;Michael E., of Brookings, South Dakota; Charles, of Lincoln, Nebraska;and James J., of Denver, Colorado.

Elizabeth Joyce Sparks was born on January 20, 1918, in Austin, Texas,and was a daughter of Earl Sylvester and Harriet (Clements) Sparks. Herpaternal grandparents were David Francis and Mary Louisa (Bryan) Sparks,and her great-grandparents were Joel and Mary (Shatley) Sparks. (See theSeptember 1961 issue of the QUARTERLY, Whole No. 35, for the bounty landapplication file of Joel Sparks for his service in the War of 1812.)

We extend our sympathy to her husband and to her sons.

See SQ p. 3951.

SPARKS QUARTERLY September 1984, No. 127; p. 2659:

MATTHEW J. SPARKS (1759-1841) AND HIS DESCENDANTS

"Elizabeth Traylor Sparks, daughter of John and Sarah (Brooks) Sparks,was born on March 5, 1813, in Georgia. She married Samuel Coleman onMarch 1, 1836, in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. We have found no furtherinformation regarding this couple."

See SQ p. 4669 for a photo of Ellen and three brothers.

The following appeared in the September, 1969 issue of the SPARKSQUARTERLY, Whole No. 67, at page 1255:

DEATH TAKES MRS. ELLA SPARKS NORRIS

The Sparks Family Association lost another charter member on July 6,1969, with the death of Mrs. Ella Sparks Norris, of Lake Charles,Louisiana. Mrs. Norris was a daughter of the late John Willis and AnnaMargaret (Meier) Sparks. She was a granddaughter of George Graham andElizabeth (Painter) Sparks, and a great-granddaughter of Hugh S. andNancy (Carnutte) Sparks. (See page 102 of the QUARTERLY.)

Mrs. Norris was born in Whitley County, Kentucky, on March 25, 1910. Shewas graduated from Berea College Hospital School of Nursing in 1931 andworked as a registered nurse all of her professional life. At her death,she was a supervisor at Charity Hospital at Lake Charles.

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!NOTES:
SQ pg 2782: Ella May Sparks married Bill Davis.

SQ p393:

By his second wife, Phoebe Jane, George W. Sparks had one child: EllisonGeorge Sparks, born in Wells County on December 19, 1866. He marriedRosella Redding, Daughter of John and Sarah (Nicholson Redding), onNovember 17, 1888. He died on November 27, 1946.

See SQ p. 408:

"Ellison George Sparks, son of George W. Sparks and his second wife,Phoebe Jane (Pouless) Sparks, was born December 19, 1866, in WellsCounty, Indiana, and died November 27, 1946, at Fort Wayne, Allen County,Indiana. He married Rosella Ellen Redding, daughter of John and Sarah(Nicholson) Redding, in Wells County, Indiana, on November 17 1888. Shewas born February 16, 1868, in Huntington County, Indiana, and died onJune 8,, 1954, at Bluffton, Wells County, Indiana. Ellison G. andRosella E. (Redding) Sparks were the parents of three children.

(1) Ninetta Leota Sparks, born Aug. 6, 1889; died Feb. 9, 1892.
(2) Fern Ada Sparks, born June 3, 1894; married, May 28, 1913, JohnHoward Gordon.
(3) Ralph Kenneth Sparks, born Nov. 5. 1900; married June 17, 1922,Josephine Bell.

SQ p. 5296:

Ellison George Sparks born on December 19, 1866, in Wells County,Indiana, and died on November 27, 1846, at Fort Wayne, Allen County,Indiana. He was married to Rosella Ellen Redding, daughter of John andSarah (Nicholson) Redding, in Wells County, Indiana, on Novem ber 17,1888. She had been born on February 16, 1868, in Huntington County,Indiana; she died on June 8, 1954, at Bluffton, Wells County. A record oftheir three children appears on page 408 of the June 1959 issue of theQUARTERLY.

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!NOTES:
SQ pg 4557: He was married to Pearl C. ---.

See THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, September, 1982, Whole No. 119, p. 2444:

"Ellsberry Sparks, son of Absalom and Lydia (?) (Elsberry) Sparks, wasborn about 1791 in Georgia. He was undoubtedly named for his mother'sfamily. He was in military service during the war of 1812 for which hereceived bounty land. (See pages 501-502 of the September 1960 Issue ofTHE SPARKS QUARTERLY, Whole No. 31, for details. {Reproduced above}) "Hewas married twice. His first wife was Polly ---, probably born about1795. His second wife was Olivia ---, born about 1810 in Tennessee.

"Elsberry Sparks was in Miller County, Arkansas, in 1821 when hejoined his father and brothers in petitioning the President and Congressto help them protect their property against the Indians. He also signeda similar petition in 1825. On July 31, 1828, he sold his "right to landentry " in Miller County to Chester Ashley. The deed was recorded inPulaski County, Arkansas, on May 26, 1830, but the transaction wasreconfirmed on November 4, 1831, when Sparks and his wife Polly Sparks,conveyed 284 acres to Ashley.

"According to the 1830 census of Sevier County, Arkansas, ElsberrySparks was the father of eight children, all born between 1810 and 1830.By 1850, all of his children had left home and he was living with hiswife, Olivia Sparks, in Crawford County, Arkansas. He was aged 58 andOlivia was aged 40. Living in the household were 2 youngsters, WilliamL. McCabe, 17, and Eleanor McCabe, 11. They may have been Elsberry'sgrandchildren or they may have been his step-children (i.e. children ofOlivia by an earlier marriage.)

"Elsberry Sparks was living in Scott County, Arkansas, when he soldhis share of the estate of his sister, Edy Sparks, for fifty dollars onNovember 27, 1851. His brother, Willoughby Sparks, and his nephew,William Tidwell, witnessed his signature. Shortly thereafter, Elsberrymoved to Falls County, Texas, where he joined his brother, WilloughbySparks, and his sister Lydia. Apparently, he was by himself. On August13, 1855, he was living in Johnson County, Texas, where he applied forbounty land for his service in the War of 1812 [see above]. He waslisted on the 1860 census of Johnson County , but we have found nofurther record of him; he may have died prior to 1870. We have notlearned the names of any of his children."

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(Details of his service appear on p. 501, SPARKS QUARTERLY, September,1960, Whole No. 31 as follows:

PENSION APPLICATION FILE, WAR OF 1812, ELSBERRYSPARKS:

"ELSBERRY SPARKS (also called Berry Sparks), born 1793-94, of ShawneyTown, Illinois, Sebastian County, Arkansas, and Johnson County ,Texas.
Bounty Land Warrant File 65 930-40-50 and 59237-160-55.

"The papers pertaining to Elsberry (or Berry) Sparks are in twoseparate files because his application of 1852 was made under the nameElsberry Sparks while in 1855 he signed his name as Berry Sparks.

"He made his first application on April 20, 1852, at which time he wasa resident of Sebastian County, Arkansas. He gave his age as 58 andstated that he had been a private in Capt. Trounsdale's company in theFirst Illinois Militial Regt. of Infantry commanded by Col. PhilipTrammell in the "War of 1812 with the Northern Indians;" that he wasdrafted "at or near Shawney town, Illinois" on or about the first day ofSeptember, 1813, for 6 months and served about 4 months; that he washonorably discharged at Shawney town on or about Jan. 1, 1814. He alsostated that his honorable discharge had been lost. He signed his name asElsberry Sparks.

"In a note made by the Pension Office, it stated that "Berry Sparks"was on record as having served in Capt. Trusdale's company from Sept. 5to Nov. 20, 1812. He was granted 40 acres.

"On Aug. 13, 1855, he again applied for bounty land under the newlaw. At this time he was a resident of Johnson County, Texas. He gavehis age as 62 years. He gave essentially the same information regardinghis service as he had in 1852, except that he was mustered into serviceat the "Saline or Salt works in the Territory of the now State ofIllinois in September 1812 and marched to Fort Edwards where he joinedthe main Army; "that he was drafted for 3 months and served 2 months andwas discharged at "the Saline or Salt works...on account of a treatybeing made with said Indians." He signed his name as Berry Sparks.Willis Sparks and T. G. Sorance, residence of Johnson County, Texas,sIgned as witnesses, the former by mark. It appears that he was granted160 acres of bounty land in 1855.

(Editor’s note: Elsberry (Berry) Sparks was probably the son of AbsolomSparks, who was a son of Matthew and Sarah Sparks (see the Quarterly ofDecember, 1956, Vol. IV No. 4, pp. 177-78, [Whole No. 16] for material onthe elder Matthew Sparks.) In the will of Benjamin Elsberry, dated Aug.21, 1789, probated Aug. 29, 1792, in Wilkes County, Ga., provision wasmade for Benjamin's wife and at her death his estate was to be divided"between all my daughters." When the estate was settled in 1808, AbsolomSparks and Nathan Sparks, both sons of Matthew and Sarah, received “theirpart in full. Without doubt, this means that Absolom and Nathan hadmarried daughters of Benjamin Elsberry. The marriage record of NathanSparks to Sally Elsberry, dated May 10, 1800, is on file in OglethorpeCounty, Ga., but that of Absolom has not been found. There seems littledoubt that Elsberry (Berry) Sparks was a son of Absolom, because bothAbsolom and Elsberry were in Miller County, Ark., between 1821 and 1825.In 1821 a petition was drawn up by a group of citizens of Post Arkansas,Arkansas Territory, who were concerned about the treaty of the UnitedStates with the chiefs of the Choctaw Nation of Indians. Among thesigners were Benjamin Sparks, Berry Sparks, Mat. Sparks, and AbsolemSparks. (Benjamin, Berry, and Mat, were probably all sons of Absolom.)Another petition was drawn up by a group of settlers in Miller County,Ark., in 1825 protesting that part of the county in which they owned"farms and improvements we have laboured for years to make" had beenceded to the to the Choctaw Indians. Among the signers were AbsolomSparks, Absolom Sparks Jnr., Elsberry Sparks, Mathew Sparks, and WilobeSparks; see Territorial Papers of the United States, ed. by ClarenceEdwin Carter, Vol. XIX, Arkansas Territory, 1819-1825, pp. 140-141.] (Endof Article on pp. 501-2.)

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SQ pg 3412: They had two children: Larry and Susan Crampton.

SQ 3193: "Emanuel Sparks, son of John and Elizabeth (Rose) Sparks, wasborn about 1816 in Wilkes County, North Carolina. He was undoubtedlynamed for his maternal grandfather, Emanuel Rose. He married Mary ---,probably about 1839. She was born about 1819 in North Carolina. Emanueldied sometime between 1870 and 1880. He and Mary had nine childrenaccording to census records."

See SQ p. 607 for the census records of Wilkes County, N.C. at census p.315, 964-964 for this family.

See her photograph on the cover of Whole No. 143 of the SPARKSQUARTERLY. See p. 3287 for:

"Emeline (or Emaline) Sparks, daughter of Thomas and Martha (Loveless)Sparks, was born in Colfax,
Indiana, on June 6, 1846, and died on January 20, 1917. She was marriedin Clinton County, Indiana, on
January 23, 1868, to Richard Moorhead who had been born in Ohio onOctober 28, 1839, and died on July 30, 1909. (They had moved toCentralia, Missouri, in 1906.) Richard Moorhead had served in the UnionArmy in the Civil War in Company H, 3rd Regiment Indiana Volunteers. Heserved under General Grant at Vicksburg, was with Sherman on his March tothe Sea, and paraded in Washington, D. C. , and on Michigan Avenue inChicago at the end of the war...."

SQ 393: Emerson Barber Sparks, born March 25, 1850. He married inShelbyville, Indiana, on July 27, 1823, Lovicy Gunn, daughter of Williamand Jane (Morford) Gunn. He died at Kalamazoo, Michigan, on December 6,1919.

See the notes for his brother William H. Sparks which appeared in THESPARKS QUARTERLY, September 1959, Whole No. 27, pp. 406-410 and theirphotograph which appeared on the cover and is reproduced in the scrapbookof William.

"Emerson Barber Sparks, to whom William H. Sparks addressed hisletters, was born in Warren, Huntington County, Indiana, on March 25,1850, and died at Kalamazoo, Michigan, on December 6., 1919. Althoughborn in Huntington County, he spent most of his life just over the countyline in Wells County, in Rockcreek Town- ship. On July 27, 1873, he wasmarried in Shelbyville, Indiana, to Lovicy Gunn, daughter of William andJane (Morford) Gunn. She was born December 14, 1854, in Hancock County,Indiana, and died on August 29, 1921, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. EmersonSparks was eleven years younger than his brother, William, and wassixteen years old when the letters were written. Without knowing thisfact, it would still be apparent from the tone of the letters thatWilliam was writing to his "kid brother." Emerson B. and Lovicy (Gunn)Sparks were the parents of the following children, all born in Indiana:

"Children of Emerson B. and Lovicy (Gunn) Sparks.
(1) Vernie Chester Sparks, born June 22, 1874, in Wells County, Ind.;died Oct. 28, 1930; married July 28, 1898, Mary Adaline Plasterer.
(2) James Homer Sparks, born Dec. 13, 1877, in Wells Co., Ind.; diedAug. 15, 1939; married March 29, 1912, Jennie Brown.
(3) Lucion Otis Sparks, born June 6, 1879, in Hancock Co., Ind.; diedMar. 15, 1918; married June 27., 1900, Della May Wolfcale.
(4) Charles Reed Sparks, born Mar. 8, 1881, in Hancock Co., Ind.; diedMay 16, 1941 married Goldie ------
(5) Zantha Jane Sparks, born April 27, 1883, in Hancock Co., Ind.; diedJan. 27, 1943; married Alvin Kinder.
(6) Una May Sparks, born March 2, 1885, in Hancock Co., Ind.; married,lst, October, 1908, Clarence William Hunt; 2d, May 20, 1922, Noel J.Pierce.
(7) William Everett Sparks, born June 17, 1888, in Wells Co., Ind.; diedJune 21, 1958; married Oct. 25, 1911, Nellie Boyd.
(8) Dessie Pearl Sparks, born April 18, 1894; married ----- Bodine.

SQ p. 5296:

Emerson Barber Sparks was born in Warren, Huntington County, Indiana, onMarch 25, 1850. He spent most of his life, however, over the line inWells County, Rock Creek Township. It was to the 16-year-old Emerson thatWilliam Henderson wrote his Missouri letters. Emerson was married on July27, 1873, in Shelbyville, Indiana, to Lovicy Gunn, daughter of Williamand Jane (Morford) Gunn. She had been born on December 14, 1854, inHancock County, Indiana, and died on August 29, 1921, in Kalamazoo,Michigan. They were the parents of eight children about whom informationappears on page 408 of the June 1959 issue of the QUARTERLY.

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SQ 3193: Emery Sparks was born on August 18, 1882. He lived in Bo one,
Nebraska.

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SQ 3193: "Emily Sparks, daughter of Solomon and Malinda (Caudill )Sparks
was born about 1858 in Iowa. She married M. A. Baker. She died in 1926."

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SQ pg 4469: She was married to Clint R. Mckinney on June 6, 1957.

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SQ pg 3937: They had one child, Joyce Humphrey.

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SQ pg 3905: She had one child by her marriage to Elijah Brown: McGuire Brown.

SQ 2773: "Emma K. Sparks was born on August 22, 1868. She married PeteBurch and they had a son and three daughters. She died on November 15,1929, and was buried at Palestine, Texas."

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SQ pg 3413: They had one son, Joseph Augustineak, Jr.

SQ p. 4749:

"Emmaella Sparks, daughter of George and Nancy (Short) Sparks, wasborn on February 23, 1839. She was married to John B. Harper on January9, 1862, by J. Mauk. The license was issued on December 28, 1861, andthe witnesses were P. L. Reynolds and A. Whitt. John Harper was born onJune 16, 1839, in either Scott or Wise County, Virginia, and was a son ofAllen and Elizabeth (Boggs) Harper. John died on August 9, 1896, inElliott County, Kentucky, and Emmaella died on January 25, 1916. Theywere buried in the Harper Cemetery on Mauk Ridge."

SQ p. 1500:

Harriet Sparks, daughter of William and Catherine (Knox) Sparks, was bornNov. 2, 1833; she married William J. Inlow, son of Abraham and Susan(Sparks) Inlow. He died June 19, 1886, age 52. They had a son namedElliott Inlow, born Dec. 18, 1866. (This is from Bowen’s History ofMontgomery County, Indiana.)

SPARKS QUARTERLY, September 1960, Whole No. 31, p. 502:

ENOCH SPARKS, born September, 1791, of Franklin County, Alabama. BountyLand Warrant File 22 360-80-55.

On Nov. 20, 1850, Enoch Sparks made application for bounty land. Hewas a resident of Franklin County, Ala., and gave his age as 58 years. Heswore that he had been a soldier in the company commanded by Capt. JohnHedge in the First Regt. of Volunteers commanded by Col. Reuben Nash;that he volunteered in Greenville District of South Carolina about Oct.19 1812, for 6 months and was mustered into service about Jan. 1, 1814;that he was honorably discharged at the end of 6 months at Washington,Ga,, on July 20, 1814. He signed his name as Enoch Sparks. He was granted80 acres of bonnty land.

Submitted with his application was his discharge which reads asfollows: "This is to Certify that Enoch Sparks, Private, havingfaithfully performed his tour of duty of six months in the service of theUnited States, he is hereby honorably discharged, with the addition offive days pay Returning home. July 20, 1814 (Signed) John Hodges, Capt.;R. Nash, Lt. Col."

On April 27, 1855, Enoch Sparks again applied for bounty land. Hewas still a resident of Franklin County, Ala., and gave his age as "64years next September." He described his service as he had in 1850, exceptthat he added that he had sold the 80 acres he had received in 1850 to W.H. Petty. He signed his name as he had in 1850; the witnesses were JohnWattress and James H. Tremble. He received 80 acres of land in 1855.

(Editor's Note: Enoch Sparks was a son of John and Mary (Parmely) Sparks.John Sparks was born in 1755 and died in 1831 (see the Quarterly ofDecember, 1959, Vol. VII, No. 4, p. 433 (misprinted 333) [Whole No. 28 )and was a [grand]son of Matthew and Sarah Sparks (see the Quarterly ofDecember, 1956, Vol. IV, No. 4, pp. 177-78 [Whole No. 16]). Thus, EnochSparks and Elsberry Sparks, whose application for bounty land was givenon pages 501-02, were first cousins.)

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SQ p 967:

"Enoch Sparks, son of John and Mary (Parmely) Sparks, was born inSeptember, 1791. He served in the War of 1812 from Greenville County,South Carolina, and received bounty land for this service in 1850 andagain in 1855. (See the QUARTERLY for September, 1960, Whole No. 31, p502 for abstracts of these bounty land papers, copied below.) He waslisted on the 1830 census of Greenville County, South Carolina, as livingnext to his father, John Sparks. Enoch's age was given as between 30 and40; his wife was listed in the same age bracket and living with them werethree males (probably sons); one male was under 5 years; one was aged 5to 10; and the third was between 10 and 15. There were also four females(probably daughters). One was under 5 years; one was between 5 and 10;one was between 10 and 15; and one was between 15 and 20. According tothe 1850 census, Enoch's wife was named Nancy and was born about 1792 inSouth Carolina. She had died by 1860, but Enoch was still livingaccording to the 1860 census of Franklin County. From census records andother scattered sources, we have been able to learn the names of onlyfour of Enoch Sparks's children. These were as follows:
(1) Samuel Magnus Sparks, born about 1818;
(2) John P. Sparks, born about 1829);
(3) Malinda Sparks, born about 1831; and
(4) Mary Sparks, born about 1833 (her name may have been Matilda)."

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SQ 2776:

"Enoch Bonner ("Bon") Sparks, son of Newell Crane and Laura FetzerSparks, was born on November 13, 1883. He died in March 1969 . He wasmarried to Ella Regan in 1907. She and Bon had four children: Clarice,Natalie, Lucille and Bonnie." There is copy of their wedding picture onpage 2776 (and in his scrapbook).

SQ 2524:

"Enoch L. Sparks, son of George and Fanny (Lindsay) Sparks , was bornabout 1838. He was married on July 28, 1859, in Union County, Georgia,to Cynthia E. Collins. When the 1860 census was taken of Union County ,a four-year-old girl named Irena C. Sparks, born in Georgia, was livingwith Enoch and Cynthia. He died on August 31, 1861 in a Richmond,Virginia, hospital while serving in the Confederate States Army."

SPARKS QUARTERLY, UNPUBLISHED ARTICLE BY Paul Sparks; p.4:

"Ephriam Sparks, son of James Sparks, Senior, was born about 1781 inNorth Carolina. The earliest record we have found of him is the 1807personal property tax list of Washington County, Virginia. He continuedto pay taxes there until 1812, and he was also listed on the 1820 censusof that county. He apparently married about 1803. His wife's given namewas Charlotte, but we have not learned her maiden name. She was bornabout 1788 in North Carolina.

In 1813, Ephriam Sparks paid personal property taxes in Lee County ,Virginia, but when the 1820 census was taken, he was listed in ScottCounty, Virginia. (Scott County was formed in 1814 from portions ofWashington and Lee Counties.) By 1827, he was back in Lee County where hepaid taxes until 1831 and also was listed on the 1830 census of thatcounty.

Ephriam Sparks apparently left Lee County about 1832 and moved toKentucky where he settled in a portion of Perry County which became apart of Breathitt County in 1839. It was in Perry County that two of hissons were married, but when the 1840 census was taken, Ephraim wasenumerated in Breathitt County. Then, in 1843, when Owsley County wasformed, Ephriam Sparks was in that portion of Breathitt County whichbecame a part of Owsley. He paid taxes in Owsley County in 1844 and waslisted on the 1850 census there. His age in 1850 was given as 69 years,while his wife, Charlotte, was 62 years of age . They lived in House No.213, according to the census taker's numbering. Their daughter, Phoebe,lived in House No. 212; their son, Ephriam, Jr., lived in House No. 214;and another daughter, Mary Ann, lived in house No. 220.

Ephriam and Charlotte Sparks apparently died between 1850 and 1860 .They were the parents of eight children, three sons and five daughters,according to the census records and information given by descendants. Wehave been able to identify all of them except three daughters." (Seenotes of children)

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See the SPARKS QUARTERLY for March 1994, Whole No. 165, pp. 4269-70:

Ephraim Sparks, son of James Sparks, was born about 1781 in NorthCarolina. The earliest record we have found of him is the 1807 personalproperty tax list of Washington County, Virginia. He continued to paytaxes there until 1812, and he was also listed on the 1820 census of thatcounty. Apparently, he was married about 1803. His wife's given namewas Charlotte, but we have not learned her maiden name. She was bornabout 1788 in North Carolina.

In 1813, Ephraim Sparks paid personal property taxes in Lee County,Virginia, but when the 1820 census was taken, he was listed in ScottCounty, Virginia. (Scott County was formed in 1814 from portions ofWashington and Lee Counties.) By 1827, he was back in Lee County wherehe paid taxes until 1831 and also was listed on the 1830 census of thatcounty.

Ephraim Sparks apparently left Lee County about 1832 and moved toKentucky where he settled in a portion of Perry County which became partof Breathitt County in 1839. It was in Perry County that two of his sonswere married, but when the 1840 census was taken, Ephraim's household wasenumerated in Breathitt County. Then, in 1843, when Owsley County wasformed, Ephraim Sparks was in that portion of Breathitt County whichbecame a part of Owsley. He paid taxes in Owsley County in 1844 and waslisted on the 1850 census there. His age in 1850 was given as 69 years,while his wife, Charlotte, was 62 years of age. They lived in House No.213, according to the census taker's numbering. Their daughter, Phoebe,lived in House No. 212; their son, Ephraim, Jr., lived in House No. 214;and another daughter, Mary Ann, lived in House 220.

Ephraim and Charlotte Sparks apparently died between 1850 and 1860. Theywere the parents of eight children, three sons and five daughters,according to the census records and information given by descendants. Wehave been able to identify all of them except three daughters.

See SPARKS QUARTERLY, p. 799:
"Ephraim Sparks, son of William Sparks, was born about 1793 in RowanCounty, North Carolina; he was still living in 1860, aged 67 according tothe census of Fayette County, Tennessee. Just prior to his family'sremoval from Rowan County, he was married to Sarah Douthit in 1811. Themarriage bond was dated August 10, 1811. On March 1, 1816, William andMourning Sparks sold part of their tract of land on Floyd's Creek inJefferson County (now Oldham County) to Ephraim. (See Jefferson CountyDeed Book K, p. 147) On October 20,, 1821, Ephraim sold this land toEllis Raney for $600 (Book T, p. 451) and moved to Alabama, where hisdaughter, Frances, was born about 1822. By 1830 he had moved to HardemanCounty, Termessee; by 1850 he was living in Tippah County, Mississippi,which adjoined Hardeman County, Tennessee, on the south. His occupationwas given as "carpenter" on the 1850 census; his age was given as57--that of his wife, Sarah, as 63. By 1860, he had moved to FayetteCounty, Tennessee, where he was listed in the census as an "overseer,"without property. Living with him was James Holland a "laborer" aged 17,born in Alabama; also Rebecca Overby, aged 13, born in Mississippi--shewas credited with $3,000 worth of personal property.

The following information was obtained by letter from Dr. Russell E.Bidlack dated November 24, 1990 incidental with my becoming a member ofthe Sparks Family Association. Ephriam was a nephew of my 2ndgreat-grandfather, Solomon Sparks, b. 1788. Ephriam's father William wasa brother of that Solomon.
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"This is the Ephraim in the 1850 Census of Washington Co, VA next toSolomon Sr. and Solomon Jr. who were his uncle and cousin respectively.The following is taken from SQ at page 2456: "Ephraim Sparks, son ofWilliam (192) and Rhoda (Pennington) Sparks, was born about 1809 inWashington County, Virginia. He accompanied his parents to White County,Tennessee, about 1825 and it was in that county that he was married about1835 to Elizabeth (260). She was born about 1810 and died about 1846.She and Ephraim had four children: James Sparks, Solomon Sparks, JosephSparks and Sarah Sparks. After her death, Ephraim married (2d) a widow,Lydia White (265), and to them one child was born, Henry Clay Sparks.Ephraim Sparks moved to Kansas following the Civil War, but returnedeastward about 1879, and when the 1880 census was taken, he was living inGrayson County, Kentucky. Lydia died in 1875; Ephraim apparently diedsometime after 1880."

I notice that the article did not reflect the fact that they wereliving in Washington County, VA in 1850 when Henry Clay Sparks was born.Ephriam's father William (192) was Solomon Sr.'s brother. Sol's broEphriam (191) was the father of still another Ephriam (226). So 3 sons ofJames (189), i.e. Ephriam (191), William (192) and Solomon Sr. (173) hadsons named Ephriam, i.e. (226 ), (228) and (183) respectively.

In a letter from Russell Bidlack dated November 24, 1990 he states"In 1954, Paul Sparks talked by telephone to a Lewis Pembrook Sparks,then 73 years old, who lived in Jefferson Co., KY. This man said thathis grandfather had been Ephriam Sparks who had been born in 1809 and hadmarried Elizabeth - - - and had lived in VA. He said his father had beenHenry Clay Sparks, born on April 4, 1850. Note that this was obviouslythe Henry Sparks shown as 4 months old on the 1850 Census, above. HenryClay Sparks had married Emma Josephine Paine and, according to LewisPembrook Sparks, went to Kansas, but when the grasshoppers ate up alltheir crops, he moved to Grayson Co. , KY.

Lewis Pembrook Sparks also stated in 1954 that his grandfather,Ephriam Sparks (after his first wife died) married, 2nd, a widow namedWhite and that she had 3 children by her previous husband who then livedwith Ephriam Sparks; their names were Wade White, Andrew White, andWilliam White. It seems apparent that they were shown as having the nameSparks on the 1850 census - - - probably a misunderstanding by the censustaker.

Thus, if we note that the William Sparks, age 12, the Andrew Sparks,age 17, and the Wade Sparks, age 9 were actually named White, not Sparks,we are left with James Sparks, age 12, Solomon, age 9, and Joseph age 7,as the only children of Ephriam by his first wife living with him in1850; 4 yr old Sarah and 4 month old Henry Clay were apparently childrenby his second wife Lydia.

Lewis Pembrook Sparks also remembered in 1954 that his father HenryClay Sparks, had two brothers, James Sparks who was a fiddler and waskilled in the Civil War, and Solomon Sparks who had also fought in theCivil War . He recalled the story of how James Sparks had been killed:"It was raining and James was behind a log and wanted to recharge his gunwith dry powder ; he raised up and was shot." Solomon survived the war,married 1st, Elizabeth Norton, and, 2nd, Mary - - - . By his first wife,Solomon had children named Charles, Jennie, Henry, John and William; byhis 2nd wife he had Anson, Palestine, Edith and Roy. Solomon died inIllinois and was buried near Champaign according to Lewis PembrookSparks, although he may have been mistaken about where in IL Solomonlived."

For mention of Ephriam (228), see also THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, March1994, Whole No. 165, article entitled JAMES SPARKS (ca1762-ca1827) OFNORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, AND KENTUCKY, p. 4265 at page 4271.

CENSUS:
Found in the 1840 Census of Washington County, Virginia with one maleunder 5, one male 10 to 15, one male 30 to 40, one female less than 5,and one female 20 to 30.
Found in the 1850 Census of Washington County, Virginia.
Found in the Virginia 1840 Census Index published by PrecisionIndexing, P.O. Box 303, Bountiful, Utah, 84010:

"Sparks, Ephriam, 35, white, male, born Virginia; enumerated inAbingdon Post Office, Washington County, Series M593, Roll 1681, Page201."

The SPARKS QUARTERLY, March 1994, Whole No. 165, at page 4270 states:
"Ephriam Sparks, Jr., son of Ephriam and Charolotte Sparks, was bornabout 1818 in Virginia. He was the father of at least four children:
Martha Ann, Nancy, Jeptha and Alvilda."
[JS: This Ephriam (226) is the son of Ephriam Sr. (191). Ephriam Sr.is the brother of Solomon Sr. (173) and William (192), both of whom hadsons
named Ephriam. Solomon's was (183) and William's was (228). Ephriam(228) son of William (192) was in Washington County in 1850 living nextto our Solomons Sr. and Jr.]

This family appears on the 1850 census of Owsley County, Kentucky, livingnext door to Ephram Sr. and Charlotte Sparks, his parents. He is shownas a farmer, age 30, born in Virginia, his wife Sarah, age 26, born inVirginia, and their two children, Ann, 11, and Nancy 8, both born inKentucky. See the SPARKS QUARTERLY, page 1011.

See THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, March 1994, Whole No. 165, p. 4273:

"Ephriam Sparks, son of Solomon and Susan Sparks, was born about 1835in North Carolina. He was married to Milly McNew, and they had at leastthree children: Susan, Rachel and Mary V."

[JS: In the opinion of Paul Sparks, this Ephriam is Solomon Jr.'sbrother married to Millie. He is not Solomon Jr.'s cousin Ephriam (228)who lived in Washington County, Virginia in 1850 (the son of William andRhoda Sparks) and who witnessed Solomon Sr.'s trust deed. See Paul'sletter to Dr. Russell Bidlack of 1 Dec, 1990.]

SQ p. 1342: "...We have found no further record of this couple. Theyprobably moved to Missouri."

But see SQ p. 1418:

"Another son of Caleb and Rebecca (Wilson) Sparks was Ephraim E.Sparks, born about 1815. He was married to Sallie Ann Reiley in LewisCounty, Kentucky, on August 6, 1837. Ephraim's father-in-law, Samuel J.Reiley, was his security for a marriage license and also gave his consentfor his daughter, Sallie (or Sarah), she being under 21 years of age.When we listed Ephraim Sparks as a son of Caleb and Rebecca (Wilson)Sparks in the QUARTERLY of September 1970, (p. 1342) we had no record ofhim following his marriage. We have since learned that he, like hisbrother Joseph, went from Kentucky to Scotland County, Missouri, Where hewas listed with his family on the 1860 census, living very near thefamily of his brother, Joseph. Their post office was Memphis, Missouri,in Johnson Township. The census was taken on August 2, and the familywas listed as follows: (The age given for his wife Sarah (or Sallie) A.Sparks is obviously in error -- she must have been nearly 40 years old in1860 rather than 30.)
Sparks, Ephraim E. 40 Kentucky Farmer $500 inproperty
Sparks, Sarah A. 30 "
Sparks, Caleb 20 " Farm laborer
Sparks, James 18 " Farm laborer
Sparks, Christina 17 " Domestic
Sparks, Rebecca 15 " Domestic
Sparks, Susannah 13 "
Sparks, E. W. (male) 10 "
Sparks, Nancy J. 7 "
Sparks, Joseph 2 "

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See THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, December 1998, Whole No. 184, pp. 5098-5099 forthe Civil War Pension Application of Ephraim E. Sparks as follows:

EPHRAIM E. SPARKS, son of Caleb and Rebecca (Wilson) Sparks, wasborn about 1815, probably in Highland County, Ohio. On August 6, 1837,he was married to Sarah Ann Reilley in Lewis County, Kentucky. He servedin Company A, 146th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry. FileDesignation: Inv. Cert. No. 387,466.

"Ephraim E. Sparks applied for an invalid pension in 1883. He was 68years of age and a resident of Ripley County, Indiana. He stated that hehad been enrolled in February 1865 in Company A, 146th Regiment IndianaVolunteers, commanded by Thomas P. Spillman, and had served until he hadbeen discharged on August 31, 1865, at Baltimore, Maryland. in March1864, he had been on a train with his company going from Indianapolis,Indiana, to Harpers Ferry, Virginia, when the train was derailed,throwing him against a bench and injuring his right breast. He statedthat he had never fully recovered from the injury.

"Sparks went on to state that, while moving from Stevenson, Virginia,to Baltimore, Maryland, in August 1865, he got a cinder in his right eyewhich injured the eye so severely that he eventually lost its sight. Hesaid that he had been treated by the Regimental Surgeon, but had not beenhospitalized. Since leaving the service, he had lived in Ripley County,Indiana. He appointed Hiram O'Connor, Jennings County, Indiana, as hisattorney. Newton Dickerson and Andrew B. Bulitt witnessed him make hismark.

"The War Department confirmed Ephraim Sparks's military service onNovember 23, 1883. He had been enrolled at Greensburg, Indiana, onFebruary 7, 1865, in Company A, 146th Regiment Indiana Infantry to servefor one year, and he had been present for duty until he was mustered outwith his company on August 30, 1865. The morning report showed that onMarch 5, 1865, while en-route from Indianapolis, Indiana, to HarpersFerry, Virginia, the train had run off the track near Hancock, andseveral members of the company had been injured, some severely.

"Sparks's application was supported by affidavits from two formercomrades, Jonathan Coon and John Laswell. Coon, age 53 and a resident ofOsgood, Indiana, stated that he too, had been present when Sparks wasinjured in the train wreck, and when he had gotten the cinder in hiseye. Laswell, age 41, a resident of Versailles, Indiana, gaveessentially the same testimony, stating that he had been an eyewitness tothe train wreck and knew firsthand of Sparks's injuries.

"On September 5, 1884, John Jackson, age 38, and Robert W. Loyd, age62, both residents of Versailles, Indiana, testified that they wereneighbors of Ephraim Sparks and had known him for nearly 30 years. Priorto his going into the military service, Sparks had been in good health,but he had returned from the service with the breast injury and theinjury to his eye.

"In spite of the affidavits, Sparks's claim was rejected on January18, 1886. On March 18, 1886, he asked for another physical examinationby another Board of Examiners. Apparently the examination was arranged,and his claim was then approved, for he was placed upon the pension rollat the rate of $17.00 per month.

"On August 19, 1889, and in November 1891, Sparks applied forincreased pension benefits, but both requests were denied. The lastdocument (in chronological order) in the "selected papers" provided bythe National Archives from his pension file, was dated June 3, 1895.Sparks, now age 78, a resident of Osgood, Indiana, asked for specialconsideration of his claim, stating that he was now partly dependent onthe charity of others for his care and maintenance. Mary A. Pickett andJohn H. Elsbery witnessed him make his mark, and the request was sworn tobefore Adrian V. Pickett, a notary public. Nothing among the "selectedpapers" indicates what action, if any, was taken on this request.

"[Editor's Note: Ephraim E. Sparks should not be confused with hisnephew, Ephraim Ellis Sparks, who also served in the Union Army duringthe Civil War. The latter served in Company I, 39th Regiment MissouriInfantry and also received a pension for his service. For furtherdetails of these families, see the September 1970 issue of the QUARTERLY,Whole No. 71, and the September 1971 issue, Whole No. 75.]"

See THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, September, 1971, Whole No. 75, pp 4716-4718 foran article entitled
"Additional Notes on Caleb Sparks of Lewis County, Kentucky, and hisDescendants" which includes the following information on Ephraim EllisSparks and his descendants on pp 1417-18:

"A photograph of the three sons of Joseph and Isabella (Ellis) Sparks"[Ephriam Ellis, John Thomson, and Thomas Marshall Sparks] "appears on thecover of this issue of the QUARTERLY."

"Ephraim Ellis Sparks, oldest son of William and Isabella (Ellis)Sparks, was born in Lewis County, Kentucky, on May 6, 1835. He came withhis parents to Scotland County, Missouri, between 1850 and 1860. OnFebruary 16., 1860., he was married to Rebecca Frances Smith, by theRev. T. D. Boyle; the ceremony was held near Keokuk, in Lee County,Iowa. She was born January 22, 1838. They settled 5 1/2 miles north ofArbela in Scotland County, Missouri. The Civil War began shortly afterthey were married and Ephraim Ellis Sparks served first in the militiaand on August 8, 1864, he enlisted in Co. I, 39th Regiment of theMissouri Volunteer Infantry in which unit he was promoted to lstSergeant. He was discharged in St. Louis on March 25, 1865. He wasdescribed at the time of his enlistment as 29 years of age, a farmer byoccupation, with blue eyes, dark hair, a fair complexion, and 5 feet 8inches tall. In 1895 he applied for and received a pension for thisservice.

"Following the Civil War., Ephraim Ellis Sparks was elected arepresentative from Scotland County to the Missouri Legislature and at alater date was Judge of the County Court of Scotland County. In 1888 hetraded 320 acres of his home place in Scotland County for 640 acres inRush County, Kansas, near the little town of Bison. This trade was witha man named Peter Nelson.

"Ephraim Ellis Sparks died on January 4, 1901, and his wife Rebeccadied on April 11, 1920. Both are buried in the Lone Star Cemetery westof Bison, Kansas. All of their children except Jennie are also buriedthere. The children of Ephraim E. and Rebecca F. (Smith) Sparks were:"[See family group sheet. Additional language in the article relates totheir son, Ephriam E. Sparks and is included in his notes.]

See THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, June 1997, Whole No. 178, pp. 4844-46:

UNION SOLDIERS NAMED SPARKS WHO APPLIED OR WHOSE HEIRSAPPLIED
FOR PENSIONS FOR SERVICE INTHE CIVIL WAR

"EPHRIAM ELLIS SPARKS, son of Joseph and Isabella (Ellis) Sparks, wasborn in Lewis County, Kentucky, on May 6, 1835. He was married toRebecca Frances Smith on February 16, 1860, in Lee County, Iowa. Heserved in Company 1, 39th Regiment Missouri Infantry. He died on January4, 1901. File Designations: Inv. Cert. No. 938,760; Wid. Cert. No.655,117.

"Ephraim E. Sparks, aged 60 years and a resident of Bison, Kansas,made application for an Invalid Pension on June 4, 1895. He stated thathe had been enrolled on August 8, 1864, in Company I, 39th RegimentMissouri Volunteer Infantry, at Hannibal, Missouri, to serve for sixmonths. He had served until he was mustered out with his company onMarch 25, 1865, at St. Louis, Missouri. When he entered the service, hehad been 29 years old; he had blue eyes, dark hair, and a faircomplexion; he was 5 feet, 8 inches in height; and he was a farmer. Hewas now (1895) suffering from asthma, a kidney disorder, and generaldebility that prevented him from earning his support by manual labor. Heappointed W. W. Dudley, Washington, D.C., as his attorney. Hisdeclaration was witnessed by H. L. Brown and James Nickel and was swornto before B. G. Lewis, a Probate Judge of Rush County, Kansas.

"On July 22, 1895, the War Department sent the Bureau of Pensions aconfirmation of Sparks's statements. He had served in Company I, 39thRegiment Missouri Infantry from August 8, 1864, until March 25, 1865, andwas carried on the company muster roll as a lst Sergeant. His medicalrecords, however, could not be found.

"Sparks made two affidavits in March 1897 to support his claim. Hestated that he had begun to have chronic asthma in 1867, and that itbecame "so violent that it prostrated him for days at a time." His doctorhad advised him to change climates, and he had moved to western Kansas in1889. He had also begun to have urinary problems about the same time.These diseases had become so debilitating that he was now unable to earnhis living by manual labor. The affidavits were sworn to before JudgeJohn Renner, who certified that Sparks's statements were "dictated byhimself and in his own handwriting."

"Invalid Certificate No. 938,760 was issued to Ephraim Sparks, and hewas placed upon the pension roll.

"On May 13, 1898, Sparks returned a questionnaire to the Bureau ofPensions. He stated that he had been married on February 16, 1860, toRebecca Frances Smith in Lee County, Iowa, by the Rev. T. D. Boyle. Ithad been the first marriage for both of them. Four children had beenborn to the union. They were:

Annie I. (Sparks) Timken, born February 5, 1861, and now dead.
Jennie C. (Sparks) Lupton, born April 3, 1865.
Joseph Sparks, born April 1, 1870.
Susie R. (sparks) Timken, born January 6, 1872.

"Ephraim E. Sparks died on January 4, 1901. He was receiving apension of $12.00 per month. Four months later, on May 31, 1901, hiswidow, Rebecca F. Sparks, applied for a Widow's Pension. She was 63years of age and a resident of Bison, Kansas. She stated that she andSparks had been married in Keokuk, Iowa, on February 16, 1860, by theRev. T. D. Boyle. The death of her husband had left her without anymeans of support except that of daily labor. She appointed W. W. Dudley,Washington, D.C., as her attorney. George Wilson and P. D. Thorpwitnessed her signature, and the declaration was sworn to before SamuelRothweiler, a notary public.

"A joint affidavit was made on May 2, 1908, to support RebeccaSparks's claim to a pension. John H. Timken, aged 49, and Henry Ahrens,aged 59, both residents of Bison, Kansas, swore that they had knownRebecca Sparks for nineteen years and knew that she had not remarriedafter the death of her husband.

"Widow Certificate No. 655,117 was issued to Rebecca F. Sparks, andshe was placed on the pension roll. When she died on April 11, 1920, shewas receiving a pension of $25.00 per month.

"[Editor's Note: The family of Joseph and Isabella (Ellis) Sparks,parents of Ephraim Ellis Sparks, was the subject of articles in twoearlier issues of the Sparks Quarterly. These can be found on page 1342of the September 1970 issue, Whole No. 71, and pages 1417-18 of theSeptember 1971 issue, Whole No. 75. It is interesting to note that, likeseveral of his cousins, Ephraim Ellis Sparks was probably named for hisgreat-grandfather, Ephraim Wilson, father of Rebecca Wilson, whosehusband was Caleb Sparks. Born in Sussex County, Delaware, on July 18,1756, Ephraim Wilson was living in that part of Yohogania County,Virginia that became Washington County, Pennsylvania in 1781. Heenlisted to serve in the Pennsylvania Line in the American Revolution,for which many years later, he received a pension. In 1795, he moved toKentucky, then, twenty-two years later, in Ripley County, Indiana, wherehe was living when he applied for a pension on May 13, 1833.]"

SQ p. 1339-40:
A photograph of a young Ephriam Wilson Sparks appears in the SparksQuarterly, Whole No. 71, pg. 1340.
Photographs of Ephraim Wilson Sparks and Elizabeth appear in the SparksQuarterly, Whole No. 72 on pg. 1353.

"Ephraim Wilson Sparks, son of Robert Thomas and Mary Ann(Wallingford) Sparks, was born on November 8, 1846, in Rockford,Kentucky, and died on November 5, 1926, in Brady, Texas. He was marriedin 1878 in Voca, Texas, to Elizabeth Antoinette Scott; she was born July5, 1851, at Lyons Station, Texas, and died on May 8, 1937, in Brady. Bothare buried at Brady. According to an inscription scratched on the backof a faded tin-type photograph taken in 1865 (see page 1340), EphraimWilson Sparks enlisted in Company G, 58th Regiment Illinois VolunteerInfantry on January 16, 1865, in Dallas City, Hancock County, Illinois,at the age of eighteen. An obituary of one of Ephraim's daughterswritten in 1955 states that Ephraim was a stone mason "and built many ofthe old chimneys in Brady. The family home originally was located on thesquare where Townsend's Ben Franklin Store stands now. But in the earlydays the cowboys became so wild, riding down Commerce Street, shooting,roping and pulling up the hitching posts, that Mr. Sparks decided it wastime to move his family up on the hill, to get away from the rowdycowboys and to be near his lime kiln. After the house was moved,however, Mrs. Sparks was afraid to let the children get away from thehouse for fear the Indians would get them."

Ephraim Wilson and Elizabeth A. (Scott) Sparks were the parents of thefollowing children: (see their individual sheets.)

On SQ p. 1354:

The only son of Robert Thomas Sparks was Ephraim Wilson Sparks, born in1846, died 1926. We published a picture of Ephraim on page 1340 of theSeptember issue as a young Union soldier at the age of eighteen. Mrs.Prince has sent us photographs of Ephraim Wilson Sparks and his wife,Elizabeth A. (Scott) Sparks taken in their old age. These are reproducedin this issue on page 1353.

Since publishing data on Ephraim W. Sparks in the September issue, wehave obtained papers from his Civil War pension file at the NationalArchives. From these we learn that he was mustered into service inCompany G, 58th Regiment of Illinois Infantry on March 17, 1865, at theage of eighteen. He had blue eyes, auburn hair, a fair complexion, andwas five feet and six and one-half inches tall. He was discharged onMarch 16, 1866, in Montgomery, Alabama. He was married to ElizabethAntoinette Scott on August 25, 1878, in Brady, Texas. In answer to thequestion regarding his place of residence following the Civil War, hestated that he had lived in Dallas City, Illinois, until March 1873; hewas in Columbus, Texas, from March to September 1873, and was in BellCounty, Texas, in 1874 and 1875; he was in Llano County, Texas, in 1876;he lived in Brady, Texas, from 1876 to 1907 when he moved to Grady, CurryCounty, New Mexico, where he remained until sometime after 1915 when hereturned to Brady, Texas. He died there on November 5, 1926. His wifedied in Brady on May 8, 1937. When we published the sketch of his life inthe September issue we did not have dates of birth for his three youngestchildren. From the records which he and later his wife submitted toobtain pensions, we are able to supply those dates. The children ofEphraim W. and Elizabeth A. (Scott) Sparks were:

1. Anna Laura Sparks, born December 1, 1879.
2. Robert Thomas Sparks, born July 12, 1882.
3. Edna Nafania Sparks, born February 10, 1885.
4. Charles Francis Sparks, born June 20, 1886.
5. Ernest Wellington Sparks, born July 10, 1889.

On SQ p. 40:

"A granddaughter of Ephraim Wilson Sparks, Mrs. Eula Mae Prince,deposited a letter with the Sparks Family Association in 1956 which hadbeen written by a friend of Ephraim in 1925. Although the author of thisletter, Ed Fee, is in no way related to the Sparks family, we believe ithas enough historical interest to justify including it here.

" 'Dallas City, Ills.
Feb. 4, 1925

'Dear Old Yankee

'Just found out thro our friend Doctor Gay and glad to know yourstill living. As you and I are the only ones living out of our War bunchI was just saying the other day that if you was dead I would be the onlyone left but am glad to know you are still living. I am still feelingfine, have a good house and with my wife and one girl at home and I amabout on easy street, but still quite a lot of work yet at my trade as apainter and paper hanger. It was only a year ago that I was working onthe old Ed Mansforth place and up in the barn loft saw your name, E. W.Sparks, cut in one of the rafters. Do you remember when you did it?

'Well, Yank, the old timers is about all gone that was here when wewas boys. There is some of the Gilbreths around here. Your sister Mrs.Gil-breth is in the Soldiers Home at Quincey. I sometimes see Ben butnot often. Don't know where the rest of them are. I have 4 children,three married, one lives in Peoria, the boy and 2 girls lives in Dallas,one at home. I live in the east end of town, have a nice little housewith 5 lots and nothing to worry about. Well Yank, if you get thisletter and want to find out any thing, write me, I will be glad to tellyou anything I can. Will close for this time and glad I have got trackof you. Yours Ed Fee.' "