Martha Jane "Mattie" CALDWELL was born in AL in 1848. Her father was born
in TN; her mother (Ruth GREENWOOD) was born in AL. My first bit of
information on Mattie is her marriage in November, 1870, in Hopkins County,
TX, to William B. SPARKS. Mattie's death record (from Franklin County, TX)
lists her mother's name as "Ruth GREENWOOD" and her father as ??? CALDWELL.
I have not found Mattie on the 1870 census but strongly suspect she was in
TX at that time since she married William SPARKS a few months later that
same year. Children of William and Mattie were named: Nathan Francis, Mary
Ruth, Sarah "Sally", William Marion and James Benjamin. Except for the name
"Ruth", all those names are also SPARKS family names so it might be possible
that some of the names were also CALDWELL names that got "double duty" from
both sides.
I have NO information on Mattie's siblings or parents, with the exception of
her mother's name. Help would be wonderfully cherished!
Pollyana King Brown
(great-grandaughter of Mary Ruth SPARKS KING)
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