When Julia Ann Sparks was born on 13 October 1837, in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, her father, John Sidney Sparks, was 26 and her mother, Melinda Jones, was 18. She married James Madison Court on 15 November 1850, in Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Jefferson Land District, Texas, United States in 1905 and Justice Precinct 6, Jefferson, Texas, United States in 1910. She died on 25 January 1925, in Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in LaBelle Cemetery, La Belle, Jefferson, Texas, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
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.
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.
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