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Name | Oscar Sparks | |
Birth | 1856 | Jefferson Co, Texas ![]() |
Gender | Male | |
Census | 22 Jun 1860 | Duncans Wood (Precinct 2), Orange Co, Texas ![]() |
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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 --- 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) |
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Census | 23 Jun 1870 | Sparks and River Settlement, Jefferson Co, Texas ![]() |
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1870, Texas, Jefferson County, Sparks Settlement census |
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Death | Aft 1870 | |
Burial | Sparks Cem, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas ![]() |
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Sparks Settlement Cemetery |
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Person ID | I472 | Roots |
Last Modified | 10 Feb 2011 |
Father | Solomon Sparks, b. 1819, Franklin Co, Tennessee ![]() ![]() | |
Mother | Martha Caroline Smith, b. May 1819, South Carolina ![]() ![]() | |
Marriage | 23 Mar 1841 | Hardiman Co, Tennessee ![]() |
Family ID | F190 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Photos | ![]() | Sparks Exhibit, Museum of the Gulf Coast - Sparks, Oscar 700 Procter Street Port Arthur, Texas |
![]() | Sparks, Oscar |
Documents | ![]() | Sparks and Aurora Originally published in about 1940, and published on the Internet by "Old and Sold, Turn-of-the-Century wisdom for today." Tells of life among the Sparks and families who lived in the Sparks Settlement in the mid to late 1800s. (d) http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/port-arthur-4.shtml |
Albums | ![]() | Sparks Exhibit - Museum of the Gulf Coast (17) 700 Proctor Street Port Arthur, Texas c 1993 |
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