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William E. Sparks

Male 1851 - 1919  (68 years)


 

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1860 Texas, Orange County, Duncans Wood (Precinct 2) census

DUNCAN'S WOODS, TEXAS. Duncan's (Duncans) Woods, also known as Duncan Woods and as Duncan's Wood, was on the nineteenth-century Beaumont and Orange Road in western Orange County. A scattered settlement was present there by 1854, when the Duncan's Woods post office was established. Though first designated as part of Jefferson County, the office was quickly switched to the new Orange County. Gilbert W. Stephenson served as its first postmaster. During the 1850s the Duncan's Woods area was considered one of the most valuable in the county, with higher land prices than for other Orange County sites. Several railroad contractors maintained camps there for workers building the Texas and New Orleans Railroad through Orange County in 1860. Yet the settlement was subsequently abandoned, and its post office was discontinued in 1866. By the mid-1980s the area was virtually treeless, with the North Port Neches and Bessie Heights oil and gas fields roughly marking the old townsite.


http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvd43


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Solomon Sparks and family and John Riley (Railah), Malinda Cole Johnson Riley and family. Also, J. Pavell and Sophia are listed here, legends of Pavell Island (not related)


Date22 Jun 1860
File name1860-tx-duncans-wood-p29.jpg
File Size300.9k
Dimensions1408 x 2000
Linked toDuncans Wood (Precinct 2), Orange Co, Texas; Duncans Wood, Orange Co, Texas; Melinda Ann Cole (Census); Christian Riley (Census); Isaac P. Riley (Census); John Riley (Census); Mary C. Riley (Census); Rachel D. Riley (Census); Martha Caroline Smith (Census); James Edwin Sparks (Census); John L Sparks, Sr. (Census); Joseph Madison Sparks (Census); Mary Susan Sparks (Census); Oscar Sparks (Census); Solomon Sparks (Census); William E. Sparks (Census)