History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 681.
[Harrison County]   [Cynthiana City and Precinct]

THOMAS E. SPARKES, farmer, P. O. Lair's.  Among those who came early from
Virginia was James Sparkes, having a son born in 1811, by name of Silas H.
Sparkes, who married Miss Isabella Givens; who was born in 1813, and died
in 1863; the husband surviving the wife three years, and dying in 1866,
leaving seven children, viz: Ruth J., Richard C., Sarah C., Martha E.,
Silas G., a resident of Missouri; Thomas E, whose name heads this sketch;
William W., and Belle.  They are the owners of 194 acres of fertile land a
quarter of a mile south of Lair's Station.  Silas Sparkes is a Mason, and
all of the family are members of the Christian church at Mount Carmel, in
Bourbon County, Richard Sparkes being one of the deacons.

Sparkes Givens
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