SPARKS FAMILY PLOT

This was copied from "Ozark Heritage Dent County Missouri Area Cemeteries & Families" Vol III 1994 by Ken Fiebelman of Salem, MO. Reprinted with the permission of Ken Fiebelman on behalf of the Dent County Historical Society

Submitted by Kathy Welch Heidel

HUITT, ELLA AMMER d/o Rubin & Belinda Gray Sparks; m. Edmond Y. Huitt, 1866, Dent Co. (by Rev. John Worsham); Ed later n. - Hunter of Turtle, he is bur. Kansas City

HUITT, MAUDIE M d/o Ed Y. & Ella A. 5/14/1887 - 6/7/1888; (Epitath: Gone but not forgotten)

SPARKS, RUBIN c1811 - 12/23/1881; m. Belinda Gray, ch.: William (m. Sarah Jane Shirley) & Edmond H. (m. Lydia J. Ball)--both bur. Stone Hill Cem., Sidney, Ella A. (m. Ed Huitt), Martha Margaret, Elias (m. Catherine "Kate" Warfel, bur. Miner Cem.), Emeline (m. Thomas Edwards, 1876, Dent Co., to Galena, KS----mother of Roscoe Edwards), Mary (2/28/1854 - 10/11/1914, m. Dr. John Harrison Gill 1876, Dent Co., bur. St. Louis---mother of Mary Ellen & Jessie Bates Gill of St. Louis, bur. Valhalla Cem.), ?Susan (m. Marion Bullock, 1889, Dent Co. by John Elvins, J. P.); to Dent Co. from Wilks Co. NC

SPARKS, BELINDA w/o Rubin, nee Gray; relative to Bud Gray of Barren Fork

SPARKS, SIDNEY 3/19/1857, Wilks Co. NC - 12/27/1921, home of neice, Mrs. W. H. Story, E. of Salem, s/o Rubin & Belinda; m. Juritta "Rita" F. Bay, 5/10/1893 (5/10/1893, Dent Co. by Rev. John H. Welch), 3 ch.: Walter & Ben (both to Poplar Bluff), & Mrs. E. E. Atchley (Springfield); converted c 1905, joined Antioch Baaptist; Rita was d/o Green W. Bay (bur. Bay Cem.) & Elizabeth P. Swiney Bay (bur. Burnett Cem.)---Rita is bur. at Springfield

SPARKS, MARGARET d/o Rubin & Belinda; mother of : Bertha May Lozier (m. William H. Story, she is bur. in yard of her home near Max)

*Probably a few more unmarked graves, located on the old Sparks farm on the headwaters of the Meramec near Antioch {Max}