May 24, 2023
Pages 1304-1305
Whole Number 69
FAMILY RECORD OF J. W. AND ROSIA SPARKS
About fifteen years ago, Mrs. Clifton Wolfe of Knoxville, Tennessee, copied a family record from a Bible owned by Mrs. Charley Farley of Monterey, Tennessee, This is a record of the children of J.W. and Rosia Sparks. We know nothing about this family other than what is given here, although we believe they were part of the family discussed in the article "Tree-of-Life Quilt" which appeared in the Quarterly of December 1956, Whole No. 16, pp. 170-71.
J. W. Sparks was born November 3, 1860, died April 26, 1948
Rosia Sparks was born October 29, 1863, died December 9, 1919
They were married on October 26, 1886, & had the following children:
1. C. L. Sparks, born October 5, 1887, died October 17, 1918.
2. Lula Ann Sparks, born August 14, 1889.
3. Ader May Sparks, born December 14, 1892.
4. L. L. Sparks, born November 28, 1894.
5. J. C. Sparks, born November 7, 1896.
6. G. H. Sparks, born June 17, 1899.
7. Doary Vler Sparks, born September 29, 1901.
8. Daisy C. Sparks, born August 18, 1904.
9. Effey Jewell Sparks, born March 11, 1909.