When Melinda Jones was born on 25 March 1819, in Middleton, Hardeman, Tennessee, United States, her father, Ephraim Jones, was 21 and her mother, Polly Anna Guffey, was 18. She married John Sidney Sparks in 1833, in Gatlinburg, Sevier, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 2, Jefferson, Texas, United States in 1880. She died in 1885, in Port Arthur, Jefferson, Texas, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in LaBelle Cemetery, La Belle, Jefferson, Texas, United States.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Historical Boundaries: 1835: Jefferson, Texas, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1837: Jefferson, Republic of Texas 1845: Jefferson, Texas, United States
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
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