Newsletterfor the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Sparks (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, and possibly Wales. The surname originally was known as Sparrowhawk. Some allied families came from Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Norway, Russia, Scotland, and Switzerland. Sparks ancestors settled in Barbados and Bermuda or Somers Island (West...

Mary Melissa Sparks was probably born in Iowa. Her parents were James Andrew Sparks and Nancy Ann Heaton. Her family moved to Kansas in 1879. She married Samuel Clarke 13 August 1881 in Leesburgh, Kansas. They had three children. They moved to Oklahoma in the 1890s.

The Sparks family originally of England and later in Maryland, North Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia and Texas. The immigrant, William Sparks, was born in the 1640s in England, and died in Franklin Co., Maryland. He came from England to Maryland in 1662. William Sparks (1761-1848) was born in Rowan Co., N.C. He married (1) 1790 in Oconee River, St. Sparks, Georgia, Mary Polly Fielder (ca. 1779-1836); (2) Ruth Seiver. He died in Nacogdoches Co., Texas....

Josiah Sparks (ca. 1751-1846) was born probably in Baltimore County, Maryland, son of Josiah Sparks and Penelope Brown. He married Rachel Collett before 1787. Descendants lived in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and elsewhere.

Ira Sparks was born in about 1815 in South Carolina. He married Mahala (821-1907) in about 1843. They had ten children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in South Carolina, Tennessee and Oklahoma.