She is the darling of my heart. I have three boys who live at Lubbock,
Colorado City and Corpus Christi. My four children have given me 12
grandchildren, which is enough. As you know, I am 69, weigh 200 pounds,
healthy, and enjoying a very good active law practice. The next time I
pass through Waco on my way to Bryan,
I shall stop and see you.
Affectionately, Your cousin
Frank Sparks
FS:gm
1709 Cherokee Road,
Ann Arbor, Michigan,
March 6, 1964.
Mr. S. D. Cavitt
3000 Austin Avenue
Waco, Texas
Dear Mr. Cavitt:
It is a pleasure to welcome you to membership in The Sparks Family
Association. We hope that you find the Association worthy of your
continued support and the Quarterly to be interesting. I enclose your
membership card and am sending you the issues of the Quarterly that you
requested under separate cover.
Unfortunately, when the issue containing the application papers of
William Sparks was typed, a great many errors were made. These were
corrected in the next issue, a copy of which I enclose. I also will
enclose a copy of the June, 1961, issue which contains an article on
William's father, Matthew Sparks.
I do not believe that William C. Sparks was a son of William Sparks, at
least I have never been able to find any proof of it. I uould be much
interested to know what you may have on this relationship.
Have you seen a letter that William Crain Sparks received in 1824 from
his grandparents, Thomas and Milly Sparks? This has,been preserved by
descendants and is a very important clue regarding his ancestry, It was
written from St. Clair, County, Alabama soon after Thomas and Milly
Sparks had moved there from Franklin County, Georgia. It reads as
follows:
St. Clair County, Alabama,
Dear Son:
We received your letter by Russell Crawford, which gives us great
satisfaction to hear from you. These lines leave us in common health
for which I wish to thank the protector of our lives and health. We
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