Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Jessamine Co.

JOHN W. SPARKS was born January 15, 1847, and is the eighth of nine sons
born to Isaac and Mary Ann (Hendricks) Sparks, natives of Ohio and
Virginia. Mrs. Mary A. Sparks died January 28, 1872, in the sixty-fourth
year of her age; she was a daughter of Joseph Hendricks, and early settler
in Jessamine County.  Isaac Sparks was born November 11, 1806, and died
January 28, 1877, in his eighty-first year.  He owned 300 acres of land
in Marble Creek District, where John W. Sparks, who is a native of
Jessamine County, was reared.  John W. Sparks was married, October 3,
1871, to Miss Maggie C. Crow, daughter of H. R. Crow, of Nicholasville.
Of the five children born to this union Jessie H. and Holman C. are
living; the deceased are Marion, John P. and an infant.  John W. Sparks
owns 174 acres in Sulphur Well District, and is one of the most successful
agriculturists of the neighborhood.

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