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Photos | ![]() | Aurora Remembered |
Documents | ![]() | Courts and Sparks Families in Southeast Texas (d) |
![]() | 1870, Texas, Jefferson County, Sparks Settlement census | |
![]() | 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 | |
![]() | Mrs. Jack C. Beaumont Recalls Early School Days When She Was One of First Five Port Arthur Pupils Port Arthur News Sunday, March 22, 1936 Mentioned in article and linked to: Emma Lee, husband Jack Beaumont, daughter Pearl Beaumont Fred Gentz and wife Bell Sparks, children Welby Gentz and Helen Gentz and husband M.E. (Mathew Edmond) Nobles John Sidney Sparks and wife Melinda Jones; their sons: Albert, Frank, William, Thomas, James, Worth, Henry; daughters: Julia, Sarah and husband Frank Brewton and heir children Grace and Frank, Eliza Jane and husband Samuel Lee (parents of Emma Lee); Belle and husband Fred Gentz |
Albums | ![]() | Aurora Remembered (11) In October 1837, two San Augustine men, H. M. Hanks and Colonel Almonzan Huston, former quartermaster general of the Texas army, teamed up to found the townsite of Aurora at present-day Port Arthur.34 One record indicates that the townsite contained 6,677 lots. Although Huston sold some lots to residents of San Augustine, no more than six transactions are recorded in Jefferson County, and the realty venture was soon abandoned. In time, the townsite’s name was transferred to nearby “Sparks’ Settlement,” at the mouth of Taylor’s Bayou, where John and Solomon Sparks settled in 1841 and operated a ferry. Chapter VI: A History of Jefferson County, Texas Early Town-Building and Government By W. T. Block Settlement on the Sabine Lake, first known as Sparks Settlement, and is now Port Arthur, where the Sparks, Courts, Gentz, Burrell, Johnson, Clark, Hayes, and other families lived from 1830s until late 1890s when disease, hurricanes, and mosquitos forced the families to abandon their settlement, moving further inland to Port Neches, Groves, and Beaumont. |
Matches 1 to 24 of 24
Last Name, Given Name(s) ![]() |
Birth ![]() |
Person ID | ||
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1 | ![]() | 25 Nov 1885 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I431 |
2 | ![]() | Apr 1874 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I448 |
3 | ![]() | Dec 1872 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I32076 |
4 | ![]() | Feb 1865 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I447 |
5 | ![]() | Aug 1877 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I32077 |
6 | ![]() | Between 1871 and 1873 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I446 |
7 | ![]() | 15 Oct 1869 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I445 |
8 | ![]() | 14 Feb 1836 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I520 |
9 | ![]() | 11 Dec 1859 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I512 |
10 | ![]() | Jul 1877 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I537 |
11 | ![]() | 1875 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I536 |
12 | ![]() | 7 Jun 1856 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I428 |
13 | ![]() | 1872 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I535 |
14 | ![]() | 1863 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I513 |
15 | ![]() | 15 Mar 1862 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I504 |
16 | ![]() | Jul 1879 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I538 |
17 | ![]() | 27 Feb 1858 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I508 |
18 | ![]() | 30 Oct 1867 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I430 |
19 | ![]() | 23 Mar 1870 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I8333 |
20 | ![]() | 11 Jan 1884 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I434 |
21 | ![]() | 21 Dec 1859 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I414 |
22 | ![]() | 15 Oct 1882 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I16316 |
23 | ![]() | 19 May 1897 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I435 |
24 | ![]() | 25 Mar 1856 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I413 |
Matches 1 to 3 of 3
Last Name, Given Name(s) ![]() |
Death ![]() |
Person ID | ||
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1 | ![]() | Bef 1880 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I513 |
2 | ![]() | Aug 1870 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I401 |
3 | ![]() | 1867 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I403 |
Matches 1 to 1 of 1
Last Name, Given Name(s) ![]() |
Burial ![]() |
Person ID | ||
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1 | ![]() | 25 Mar 1949 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I20848 |
Matches 1 to 1 of 1
Last Name, Given Name(s) ![]() |
Property ![]() |
Person ID | ||
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1 | ![]() | 1853 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I401 |
Matches 1 to 2 of 2
Last Name, Given Name(s) ![]() |
Residence ![]() |
Person ID | ||
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1 | ![]() | 1854 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I401 |
2 | ![]() | 3 Mar 1858 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | I401 |
Matches 1 to 1 of 1
Family ![]() |
Marriage ![]() |
Family ID | ||
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1 | Lee / Sparks | 14 Jun 1860 | Sparks Settlement, Aurora, Jefferson Co, Texas | F186 |