When Thomas Jefferson Sparks was born in 1858, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Calvin Sparks, was 32 and his mother, Jamima "Mima" Jane Goin, was 31. He had at least 1 daughter with Minerva Redmond. He lived in Claiborne, Tennessee, United States in 1860 and No. 13 Kindricks Creek District, Washington, Tennessee, United States in 1880.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
English:
variant of Spark , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
possibly a nickname from the plural form of Middle English spark ‘fiery particle’, perhaps given to a blacksmith.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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