| Name |
Daniel Sparks |
| Birth |
1816 |
North Carolina or Franklin Co, Tennessee  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Census |
1840 |
Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana |
- Name: Daniel Sparks
Home in 1840 (City, County, State):
Natchitoches, Louisiana pg 64
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1
Total Free White Persons: 1
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves:1
|
| Census |
1850 |
Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana |
| b NC |
- Daniel Sparks 34 1816 NC
Julia Sparks 25 1825 LA
Frances Sparks 6 1844 LA
Jacob Sparks 5 1845 LA
Malissa Sparks 3 1847 LA
Dan Sparks 1 1849 LA
|
| Census |
17 Sep 1860 |
Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana |
- Daniel Sparks 45 1815 North Carolina planter
A E Sparks female 27 1833 Alabama
Frances E Sparks female 16 1844 Louisiana
J W Sparks male 14 1846 Louisiana
M J Sparks female 11 1849 Louisiana
D Sparks male 9 1851 Louisiana
J W Sparks male 3 1857 Louisiana
S J Sparks male 2 1858 Louisiana
|
| Census |
20 Aug 1870 |
Natchitoches Parish (Ward 7), Louisiana |
| b NC |
- Daniel Sparks 55 farmer 600, 500 cannot read/write
John W Sparks 14 1856 LA
Julia Sparks 9 1861 LA
Hardy J Sparks 6 1864 LA
Louisa Sparks 4 1866 LA
Lucy C Sparks 2 1868 LA
next door: son
Jacob M. Sparks 1846 Louisiana farmer
Mary Sparks wife 20 1850 Mississippi
|
| Death |
Aft 1870 |
Vowels Mills, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana [1] |
- buried on his own land in Natchitoches Parish.
|
| Notes |
- letter from Oscar Sparks, son of Hardy Sparks, grandson of Daniel Sparks (as published on the Internet in Ancestry.com by James Willis Sparks29 added this on 11 Sep 2007)
"Some of the information about him has been given to us by a grandson Oscar Sparks, who lives in Provencal, Louisiana. He wrote the following in his November 11, 1985 letter.
'I know very little about my father's people. I was told my grandfather Sparks came from Tennessee. Rode horseback from there. His name was Daniel and his job was overseeing a plantation worked by Negro slaves, approximately four miles north of where I now live on the Kisatchie creek. He married a girl whose last name was Justice and they had five children, two girls, France and Melissa and three boys Tom, Jake and Wesley. His first wife died and he married someone name I don't know they had three children, two girls, Luwie and Julia and one boy Hardy, my father. Uncle Tom had three sons, Elic, Craf and Math. Last tw lived in around Anacoco and Many, Louisiana, who did drift into east Texas. I never did know Craf or Math just heard of them. I was told that when Grandpa left Tennessee, he had a brother who also left Tennessee and settled near Nacogdoches or San Augustine Texas. Several; years back I met one of the Sparks boys from over there and from what he said, I feel sure our Grandpas were brother. My father and mother had eight children; three sons and five girls all are dead now except me. I was the youngest, born April 28, 1904. We all lived in or near Natchitoches Parish all of our lives.'
This letter from Oscar Sparks, together with census records, helps us to form a family for Daniel Sparks. He married twice, his first married was to Julia Justice about 1842. She was born about 1825 in Louisiana, and she died probably about 1853. Daniel?s second wife was to a woman whose name we have not found any record of. Daniel said to have died in the late 1800's and was buried on his own land. His oldest son is buried beside Daniel. The land now belong to a Justice, not three miles from where Oscar lives now.Daniel had eight children.I have been to see Oscar every year on his birthday ( the closes Saturday to his birthday). All his children(10 - to have died), their children. So there is always 50 or more. Who ever goes there will always feel at home. All Sparks?s are that way and will always will be, I guess.There are always so many stories about where some one came from and where they went. The material we use is records from Courthouses and Census or known records."
http://www.sparksfamilytree.net/ghtout/npr293.html#H01725
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| Person ID |
I4455 |
Roots |
| Last Modified |
11 Aug 2011 |
| Father |
William* Sparks, b. Abt 1783, Wilkes Co, North Carolina d. Aft 1830, of, Jackson Co, Alabama (Age ~ 48 years) |
| Mother |
(Mrs. James Sparks*) Sparks, b. Between 1791 and 1800 d. Aft 1830, of, Jackson Co, Alabama (Age ~ 40 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 1808 |
Washington Co, Virginia (?) |
| Married |
Washington Co, Virginia [2] |
| Family ID |
F188 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Melissa Julia Justice, b. 17 Oct 1825, Sabine Parish, Louisiana d. 1853, near, Vowels Mills, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana (Age 27 years) |
| Marriage |
1841 |
near, Bellwood, Louisiana [1] |
| Children |
| + | 1. Thomas Sparks, b. Abt 1842, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana d. 17 Dec 1953, Bellwood, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana (Age ~ 111 years) |
| | 2. Frances A. Sparks, b. 13 Feb 1844, Bellwood, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana d. 14 May 1876, Bellwood, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana (Age 32 years) |
| + | 3. Jacob M. "Jake" Sparks, b. 1845, Bellwood, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana d. 25 Aug 1932, of, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana (Age 87 years) |
| + | 4. Melissa Jane Sparks, b. 1847, Louisiana d. Aft 1900, of, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana (Age 54 years) |
| | 5. Daniel Sparks, b. 1849, Louisiana d. Aft 1880, of, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana (Age 32 years) |
|
| Family ID |
F2046 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
28 Dec 2012 |
| Family 2 |
A. Elizabeth "Liza" Myrick (Myrich), b. 1833, Alabama d. Bef 1870, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana (Age 37 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 1855 |
Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana |
| Children |
| + | 1. John Wesley Sparks, b. 1856, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana d. 14 Jan 1932, Leesville, Vernon Parish, Louisiana (Age 76 years) |
| | 2. S.J. Sparks, b. 1858, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana d. Aft 1860, of, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana (Age 3 years) |
| | 3. Julia Sparks, b. 1861, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana d. Aft 1870, of, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana (Age 10 years) |
| + | 4. Joseph Hardy Sparks, b. Sep 1864, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana d. 2 Mar 1917, Provencal, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana (Age ~ 52 years) |
| | 5. Louisa Sparks, b. 1866, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana d. Aft 1880, of, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana (Age 15 years) |
| | 6. Lucy C. Sparks, b. 1868, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana d. Aft 1870, of, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana (Age 3 years) |
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| Family ID |
F11773 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
3 Dec 2013 |
1816 - Aft 1870 (> 55 years)