2. | *Richard Sparks, Sr. was born in 1725 in New Jersey (son of Sparks); died in 1792 in Elizabeth Township, Alleghey County, Pennsylvania. Notes:
1). Source: Referenced: The Sparks Quarterly Magazine; Dec. 1971,No. 76
A copy is in the Sparks Family Records.
Joyce Lorraine Clore Elkins kept excellent records, and the compiler(daughter) is initially only working off of a hand written outline tojust data base the lineage of the family to start with, and later moreinformation on the family will be added.
A copy of the family lineage is in the Sparks Family records.
2). Source: A packet of information on the Joshua Elkins Sr.'sbranch of the family in relationship to the Sparks Family and ourWilliam H. Elkins family line from Everett C. Elkins of Tennessee, 03FEB 1995, to Joyce Lorraine Clore Elkins of Indiana per postal mail.
If you wish more information on this family line please contact thecompiler at: sljuhl1234@yahoo.com or sljuhl1234@msn.com [22 Jul2006, SLJuhl, compiler and Joyce's daughter]
SOURCE - SPARKS QUARTERLY: Titled - LIFE AND FAMILY OF DANIEL SPARKS(1763-ca.1820), continued: #163, Sep. 1993, p. 4152 - Excerpts:Para. 2, "In fact, when a Samuel Ketchum died in 1778 in southwesternPennsylvania, an area then claimed by Virginia and organized asYohogania County in 1776, Daniel Spark's father, Richard Sparks, Sr.,had been one of four men ordered to take an inventory of Ketchum'sestate. The Yohogania County Court's minute book for 1776 to 1780survives, and at a meeting of this court on August 24, 1778, it was"Ordered that Andrew Pearce, Rich'd Johnston, James Wall, and Rich'dSparks, or any three of them being first Sworn, do appraise the Estateof Samuel Ketchum, dec'd. and make return to next Court." Theadministration of Samuel Ketchum's estate was granted to his widow,Elizabeth Ketchum, and to his brother, William Ketchum. See pp.248-49 of Records of the District of West Augusta, Ohio County, andYohogania County, Virginia, published by Ohio State University, 1970.William Ketchum was still living near Richard Sparks in AlleghanyCounty, Pennsylvania, when the 1790 census was taken."
*Richard married Johannah Applegate between 1745 and 1750 in Middlesex County, New Jersey. Johannah (daughter of Benjamin Applegate, Sr. and Elizabeth Parent) was born between 1730 and 1750 in Middlesex County, New Jersey; died in Alleghey County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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