Alice SPARKS

Other Events:

• Census: 20 Aug 1860, , Falls, Texas, USA; pg 44 (164B) d/f #279/279
• Military: Between 1862 and May 1865, , , Texas, USA; Co B, 13th TX Cav, CSA

Notes:

I believe that Willieam was dead by the 1880 Census. I find no records after 1860 that I know for sure are him.

Census:
Alto Springs PO
Wm Sparks M 28 Arkansas
M A Sparks F 28 Tennessee
M J Sparks F 1 Texas
J M Sparks M 9/12 Texas

Military:
The 13th Texas Cavalry Battalion was organized in the summer of 1862 and surrendered on 26 May 1865 with the rest of the Trans-Mississippi Dept. They fought at Fort Bisland (April 63), Brashear City (June 63), Donaldsonville (June 63), Stirling's Plantation (Sept63), Bayou Bourbeau (November 63), Red River Campaign (March-May 64),Mansfield (April 64) (where Mouton died), and at Pleasant Hill (April 64) (where Mellen was captured).

William married Martha A ERSKINE about 1856 in , , Texas, USA. Martha (daughter of ERSKINE) was born in 1830 in , , South Carolina, USA; died in Deceased. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1880, Kosse, Limestone, Texas, USA; ED 93, pg 46 (336B)

Notes:

Census:
Precinct 5
Chas Hodges Self M 65 Mississippi
M A Hodges Wife F 50 South Carolina
Steven T Hodges Son M 25 Mississippi
Sallie Hodges Dau F 15 Mississippi
Laura Sparks S-dau F 16 Texas
Alice Sparks S-dau F 14 Texas
They live next to John and Rebecca. I'm not sure this is Martha but I'm positive these are her daughters. Charlie Hodges was first married to Susanna Parker, she died in 1871.

Other Events:

• Residence: 1825, , Miller, Arkansas, USA
• Census: 1830, , Pope, Arkansas, USA; pg 171
• Property: 24 Jan 1834, , Chicot, Arkansas, USA; Section 28, Township 15, Range 1W
• Census: 1840, , Hot Spring, Arkansas, USA; pg 156
• Residence: 1841, , , Tennessee, USA
• Tax List: 1845, , Robertson, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1847, , Limestone, Texas, USA
• Census: 1850, , Limestone, Texas, USA; pg 785 (379A), d/f #369/369
• Census: 1854, , Limestone, Texas, USA; The Texas Scholastic of 1854-1855
• Tax List: 1857, , Falls, Texas, USA; County
• Tax List: 1859, , Falls, Texas, USA; County

Notes:

Residence:

Signed petition to the President for aid to Miller Co, Arkansas

Census:

Sparks, Willoby - 01001-20001-0
1 male born 1820-25
1 male born 1800-10
2 female born 1825-30
1 female born 1800-1810

Property:
Willaby Sparks

Census:
Marble Township, Sulpher Springs
Sparks, Willoby
Male
1 under 5
1 5-10
1 10-15
1 30-40
Female
1 under 5
1 5-10
2 10-15
1 20-30

Residence:

three children born

Census:
Precinct 5
Sparks Willibo 47 M W Farmer 250 GA
Sparks Mary 40 F W IL
Sparks Levi 25 M W Farmer AR
Sparks William 17 M W Farmer AR
Sparks Tilman 13 M W AR
Sparks Clarinda 9 F W TN
Sparks Nancy C. 7 F W TN
Sparks Bayley M. 3 M W TN
Sparks John 1 M W TN
Jones Wilbern 31 M W Merchant Not Known
Loup Anna R. 14 F W Germany
Swingler George 16 M W None Germany
This part of the county was used to create Falls County in 1850.

Census:
Clarinda, Nancy, Bailey, and John, and three other children named Nelson: John, Willoughby, and Minerva. Grandchildren?

Tax List:
Wilouby Sparks

Tax List:
Willaby Sparks

Willoughby married Mary BOATWRIGHT about 1824 in , , Arkansas, USA. Mary (daughter of Thomas BOATWRIGHT and Amy RUSHING) was born in 1809 in , Gallatin, Illinois, USA; died after 1861 in , , Texas, USA; was buried in , Parker, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Polly Boatwright
• Tax List: 1862, , Parker, Texas, USA

Notes:

I have a lot of doubts about this line even though three Sparks married Boatwrights.

Parker Co TX, Land
ABSALOM SPARKS A. SPARKS 1195
MARY SPARKS M. SPARKS 1231

"A great many years ago, two great-grandchildren of Willoughby and Polly (Harrell) Sparks, Frank Sparks and Segonia (Sparks) Pritchett, found Mary's (Polly's) grave in Hills Cemetery. It had a headstone marker then which read "Polly Sparks, 1813." When they revisited the cemetery the following year for the purpose of replacing the marker, someone had removed it.
"Hill Cemetery is in Parker County, TX. It is off of I-20 on Gilbert Pit Road. Go down the road past the gravel pit and the cattle guard. It is on the right back off the road." [George Boatright, http://boatwrightgenealogy.com/index.html] [This stone is still in the cemetery.]

I don't believe this information is correct for our Polly Sparks, it would make her only a child when these children were born and she was married previously. I don't believe she married at 10. Her stone may say 1813 but it would be obviously incorrect.

Tax List:

This is an indication that Willoughby has died.

Other Events:

• Residence: 1802, , Clarke, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1807, , Gallatin, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1819, , Miller, Arkansas, USA
• Residence: 1825, , Miller, Arkansas, USA

Notes:

Residence:
Big Creek Settlement

Residence:

Signed petition to the President for aid to Miller County.

Absalom married Lydia ELSBERRY about 1790 in , Franklin, Georgia, USA. Lydia (daughter of Benjamin ELSBERRY and Francina ???) was born about 1774 in , Wilkes, North Carolina, USA; died in Deceased. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: Bef 1811, , , Tennessee, USA
• Residence: Bef 1819, , , Illinois, USA
• Residence: Abt 1819, , Miller, Arkansas, USA
• Occupation: 1821
• Fact: Dec 1821
• Property: 27 Jul 1824
• Residence: Abt 1825, , Miller, Arkansas, USA
• Census: 1830, , Pope, Arkansas, USA; pg 174

Notes:

County: Austin
Abstract Number: 17
District/Class: Title
File Number:
Original Grantee: Thomas Boatwright
Patentee:
Title Date:
Patent Date: 27 Jul 1824
Patent No: 254
Patent Vol: 1
Certificate:
Part Section:
Survey/Blk/Tsp:
Adj County:
Acres: 4,428.40
Adj Acres:
Remarks:

From the "Handbook of Texas"
BOATWRIGHT, THOMAS (1760-ca. 1830). Thomas Boatwright, early Texas settler, was born in Virginia, moved to Illinois, and by 1819 was living in old Miller County, Arkansas. In the early fall of 1821 he and his wife, Amy, and their ten children traveled with the Gilleland, Kuykendall, Williams, and Gates families down Trammel's Trace to Nacogdoches. In early December they left for Austin's Spanish land grant and arrived at the La Bah

Occupation:
Scout for Austin's Colony

Fact:
Old 300

Property:
Austin Co, Texas

Census:
Thomas Boatright
males
under 5 1
15-20 1
20-30 1
60-70 1
females
60-70 1

Thomas married Amy RUSHING. Amy (daughter of Richard RUSHING and RUSHING) was born about 1775 in , Anson, North Carolina, USA; died before 22 Apr 1839 in , Pope, Arkansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1833, , , Texas, USA
• Property: 24 Oct 1835

Notes:

One of the few women ever to receive a land grant in Austin's colony.
"Know all men by these presents. That whereas under and by virtue of a power of attorney duly made and executed on the twenty-second day of April 1839 (and duly recorded) by one Thomas Boatwright of Texas, the authorized and legally appointed Agent of Certain Heirs of the Estate of Richard Rushing late of the State of Tennessee, deceased, I, David Rushing of the County of Pope and State of Arkansas, was appointed the proper attorney and agent of sd. Boatwright in the premises to ask for, collect, demand, sue for, receive, and give receipts and full discharges for the same of the amounts of monies respectively coming or due to the late Amy Boatwright, mother of said Thomas Boatwright and also to the others, the children of said Amy, being a portion of the heirs of Richard Rushing, dec'd. upon and under the terms and conditions therein expressed, and whereas sd. David Rushing, being old and unable to travel to carry out the intentions of said power, is desirous and willing and able to appoint some other person to act therein; thereupon be it known to all whom it may concern that I, David Rushing of the County of Pope and the State aforesaid do hereby nominate, constitute, and appoint Willis Rushing of the County of Benton in the State of Tennessee, my true and lawful Attorney, for me in my name or in the name of Thomas Boatwright the Legally authorized agent of the said heirs of the Estate, of said Richard Rushing late of Tennessee aforesaid. To ask for, receive, collect, sue for and receive, all sums or sums of money or effects of any kind or description of right belonging and appertaining to the said heirs of the said Estate, of said Richard Rushing dec'd. of and from all persons and parties owing or amenable for the dec'd. and I further authorize under and by virtue of the like power herein I am empowered to do and execute all acts to carry into effects the intentions therein expressed, the said Willis Rushing to give all necessary acquittances and receipts in the law for the same, either in my name as attorney and agent for the said Thomas Boatwright or in the name of said Boatwright as the legally authorized Agent of said heirs of the Estate as he the said Willis may be advised or required, and generally to act in the premise as agent or attorney of said Boatwright or myself under the above recited power, so that the monies due the heirs of the Estate of sd. Richard Rushing dec'd. may be collected and applied to the purposes expressed in the original power from sd. Thomas Boatwright. In witness thereof I have set my hand and seal this 27th day of December 1842. Signed, sealed,and delivered.
David Rushing (seal)
In presence of:
Jno. R. A. Scott
A. M. Metcalf
This day personally appeared before me an Acting Justice of the Peace within and for the co. and State af. sd. the within named David Rushing who duly acknowledged the name David Rushing at the end of the annexed power of Attorney to be his signature and that he executed the same for the reasons therein set forth. Dated this 27th day of december 1842.
A. R. Cheyne, J.P."
[Taproots, A Virginia & Carolina Legacy]
"Note: There was a Thomas Boatwright in Henderson County in 1850. If this Thomas is the same Thomas as the son of Amy, then the Boatwrights who lived in Henderson and Decatur Counties probably are descendants of Richard Rushing. There are White and Hill descendants of a W. H. Boatwright in the Concord Community of Decatur County."
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County: Madison
Abstract Number: 7
District/Class: Title
File Number:
Original Grantee: Amy Boatwright
Patentee:
Title Date:
Patent Date: 24 Oct 1835
Patent No: 313
Patent Vol: 10
Certificate:
Part Section:
Survey/Blk/Tsp:
Adj County:
Acres: 4,428.40
Adj Acres:
Remarks:

Property:
Madison Co, Texas