SPARKMAN CEMETERY
Boston, Williamson County, Tennessee
Tombstone Inscriptions and Internments (Partial Listing)

 

Click on highlighted links for tombstone photograph.  Photographs courtesy of Mike Watkins

In memory of
Wm. Sparkman
Born February 9th 1764
Died March 15th 1832
Tombstones  (Settlement of the Estate of William Sparkman, Williamson Co., May 2, 1868, reflects “To cash paid to I.I. Short to tombstones for father and mother, $32.00; To cost of erecting tombstones, $5.00”)

In memory of
Rosanna Sparkman
Born Oct. 12, 1769
Died Feb. 26, 1861

 

 

Seth Sparkman
Born January 15, 1797
Died October 8, 1884
(Son of William Sparkman and Rosanna Williams)

Tombstones
Photograph (Note finger-pointing to Biblical passage also memorialized on tombstone)

Rebecca Sparkman
Born February 24, 1797
Died April 20, 1883
(Nee Latta, daughter of John B. Latta and Mary Jackson)

(Multi-sided family marker with various footstones with initials – first two sides)

Father
T.W. Sparkman
Born June 14, 1812
Died Dec. 21, 1896
(Thomas Washington Sparkman, Son of William Sparkman and Rosanna Williams)

 

 

 

 

Tombstone 1

N.A. Sparkman
Born Nov. 2, 1822
Died Aug. 21, 1879
(Nellie Ann White, 2nd wife, daughter of Media White and Nellie Ann)

 

D.P. Sparkman & Infant
Died Aug. 11, 1841
(Delilah P. Fitzgerald, 1st wife, daughter of Alan Fitzgerald)

Tombstone 2

(last two sides)

O.W. Sparkman
Born July 19, 1848
Died June 6, 1853
(Outlaw W. Sparkman, son of Thomas W. Sparkman and Nellie Ann White)

 

A.R. Sparkman
Born February 11, 1856
Died November 30, 1860
(Allen Ross Sparkman, son of Thomas W. Sparkman and Nellie Ann White)

Tombstone 3 & 4

L.B. Sparkman
Born Sept. 26, 1852
Died Oct. 2, 1879
(Lucious Berry Sparkman, son of Thomas W. Sparkman and Nellie Ann White)

 

M.A. Sparkman
Born Dec. 3, 1857
Died June 14, 1885
(McDonald Arnet Sparkman, son of Thomas W. Sparkman and Nellie Ann White)

Jessie J. Sparkman
1814 – 1875
(Jessie Jackson Sparkman, son of Jesse Sparkman and Millie Ann)

Tombstones

Rosanna Sparkman
1821 – 1906
(nee Sparkman, wife of Jesse J., daughter of Williams Sparkman [son of William Sparkman and Rosanna Sparkman] and Elizabeth Vestal)

(Multi-sided family marker)

J.J. Sparkman
Oct. 24, 1827
Feb. 22, 1899
(John Jackson Sparkman, son of Seth Sparkman and Rebecca Latta)

Tombstone 1

 

Mary Sparkman
Nov. 14, 1861
Feb. 5, 1864
(daughter of John J. Sparkman and Elizabeth J. Burns)

Tombstone 2 

E.J. Sparkman
Mar. 24, 1836
Mar. 27, 1901
(Elizabeth J. “Betsy” Burns, wife of John J. Sparkman)

 

J. Lee Sparkman
April 5, 1868
Sept. 5, 1875
(John Lee, Son of John J. Sparkman and Elizabeth J. Burns)

Rebecca H. Eckeberger
Born Sept. 1, 1828
Died Sept. 10, 1895
(nee Higgs, widow of Abraham Eckeberger of Mt. Hope, Lawrence Co., AL, and mother of Sarah Alice Eckeberger, who married Charles Nathan Sparkman, son of Thomas W. Sparkman and Nellie Ann White – she died during a visit to her daughter)

Tombstone

 

 

W.T. Sparkman
May 7, 1833
Jan. 19, 1897
(William Thomas Sparkman, son of Charles Robinson Sparkman  [son of William Sparkman and Rosanna Williams) and Jane Latta)

Tombstone

M.F. Sparkman

Nov. 14, 1833

June 21, 1908

(Margaret Frances Trimble, wife of William T., daughter of William Trimble and Diana)

 

James T. Sparkman
Born Aug. 16, 1836
Died June 28, 1893
(James Thomas Sparkman, son of Seth Sparkman and Rebecca Latta)

Tombstones
 

Marietta I., wife of James T. Sparkman

Born Mar. 21, 1842

Died June 4, 1873

(Nee Dabney, 1st wife of James T., daughter of John O. Dabney and Tabitha C. Morton)

 

Tabitha C., daughter of J.T. & M.I. Sparkman

Born Sept. 13, 1862

Died June 1, 1863

(Tabitha Catherine, daughter of James T. Sparkman and Marietta I. Dabney)

Laura Jane King

wife of J.T. Sparkman

June 23, 1849

Jan. 14, 1892

(daughter of John King and Lucy Alston)

 

 

Dabney D. Sparkman

Dec. 30, 1860

Oct. 15, 1890

(Son of James T. Sparkman and  Marietta I. Dabney)

 

 

Mary P., daughter of J.T. & M.I Sparkman

Born Sept. 23, 1867

Died Dec. 16, 1869

(daughter of James T. Sparkman and Marietta I. Dabney)

Nathan A. Sparkman

Born July 24, 1841

Died Aug. 8, 1872

(Nathan Amon Sparkman, son of

 Seth Sparkman and Rebecca Latta)

Tombstone

 

 

Ables, Infant, Dec. 31, 1919 (daughter of Charles Nathaniel Ables [son of Joseph E. Ables and Mary Virginia Sparkman] and Pearl Sophia Schoenmann)

Ables, J.E., May 10, 1865 – Aug. 1, 1947 (Joseph E. Ables, son of unknown Ables and Evira Howard)

Ables, M.V. Sparkman, Aug. 19, 1865 – Sept. 22, 1914 (Media “Mary” Virginia Sparkman, wife of Joseph E., daughter of Thomas Washington Sparkman and Nellie Ann White)

Anderson, Wayne E., Apr. 21, 1933 – Nov. 17, 2003

Andrews, Albert Jackson, 1872 – 1951 (Joseph Albert Jackson Andrews, son of Joseph Bolin Andrews and Mary Jennie Sparkman [daughter of Jesse Jackson Sparkman and Rosanna Sparkman])

Andrews, Benny Leslie, Oct. 1, 1937 – Feb. 16, 2008 (son of James Connie Andrews [son of Leslie Leonard Andrews (son of Joseph Bolin Andrews and Mary Jennie Sparkman [daughter of Jesse Jackson Sparkman and Rosanna Sparkman]) and Fannie Southerland] and Fanny Bell Hudgens)

Andrews, Clyde, b. 1893 (son of Albert Jackson Andrews and Frances Newton Polk)

Andrews, Frances Polk, 1873 – 1921 (Frances Newton Polk, 1st wife of Albert Jackson Andrews, daughter of John Polk and Delilah Johnson)

Andrews, Snow Hassell, 1898 – 1930 (1st wife of Clyde Andrews)

Andrews, Walter H., 1914 – 1930 (Walter Howard Andrews, son of Clyde Andrews and Snow Hassell)

Brown, Rosa Sparkman, Nov. 19, 1861 – Apr. 4, 1936 (Nellie Rosa, daughter of Thomas Washington Sparkman and Nellie Ann White; m. Jesse T. Brown, son of Thomas Brown and Araminta)

Couterier, Katherine, Apr. 24, 1921 – July 5, 2003 (Jessie Katherine Sparkman, wife of Joe Couterier, daughter of Jesse Grover Sparkman and Willer Mai Warf)

Denton, Bertha S., 1885 – 1968 (wife of Leonard M. Denton, daughter of James Madison “Matt” Sparkman and Sarah Hawk)

Denton, J.H., 1841 – Sept. 4, 1925 (James H. Denton)

Denton, Leonard M., June 11, 1883 – Mar., 1972 (Leonard Maloy, son of James H. Denton and Nannie)

Denton, Nannie, 1856 – June 3, 1938 (wife of James H. Denton)

Hargrove, Harold Wayne, Mar. 20, 1949 - Aug. 12, 2004 (son of Charles Hargrove and Mildred Gilliam)

Hargrove, Joe E., July 21, 1880 – Mar. 18, 1959 (Joseph Frances Hargrove [per WWI draft registration, b. 1879], son of William Hargrove and Albina F. Wilson)

Hargrove, Katie A., June 8, 1880 – Oct. 8, 1954 (wife of Walter P. Hargrove, daughter of Joseph Bolin Andrews and Mary Jennie Sparkman [daughter of Jesse Jackson Sparkman and Rosanna Sparkman])

Hargrove, Maude Shaw, Jan. 4, 1880 – Jan. 1, 1931 (1st wife of Joseph E. Hargrove, daughter of Thomas B. Shaw and Sarah C. Sparkman [daughter of Jesse Jackson Sparkman and Rosanna Sparkman])

Hargrove, Novella Goard, May 5, 1905 – Sept., 1982 (2nd wife of Joseph E. Hargrove)

Hargrove, Walter P., b. April 11, 1877 (son of Marcus Hargrove and Jane)

Hart, Edwin R., Jr., July 18, 1938 - Oct. 16, 2001 (husband of Judith Ann Wilson, daughter of Albert H. Wilson and Ruth Robinson)

Hart, Malonie Ann, July 19, 1959 – Nov. 1, 2005 (daughter of Edwin Russell Hart and Judith Wilson [daughter of Albert H. Wilson and Ruth Robinson])

Jackson, Annie, Jan. 17, 1921 – Feb. 23, 2006 (Annie Skelley, wife of Charles R. Jackson, daughter of Henry P. Skelley and Mary Beasley)

Jackson, Charles Robert, Aug. 11, 1917 – Jan. 26, 2000

Johnston, Infant, Nov. 22, 1880 – Nov. 23, 1880 (child of E. Thomas Johnston and Ida Sparkman [daughter of John Jackson Sparkman and Elizabeth Burns])

Johnston, Infant, Nov. 20, 1884 (child of E. Thomas Johnston and Ida Sparkman [daughter of John Jackson Sparkman and Elizabeth Burns])

Marlin, Margie, May 28, 1895 – Mar. 18, 1945 (1st wife of Walter E. Marlin, daughter of James Robert Shaw and Minnie Bell Campbell)

Marlin, Walter E., July 20, 1892 – Aug. 18, 1965 (Walter Eugene, son of Samuel C. Marlin and Lula Taylor, daughter of James M. Taylor and Rebecca Roane)

Potts, Edgar S., May 19, 1894 – Aug. 20, 1917 (son of Sampson D. Potts and Mary L. Johnson, 1st husband of Edith Ables [daughter of Joseph E. Ables and Mary Virginia Sparkman])

Potts, Mary L., May 22, 1855 – Oct. 31, 1915 (Mary L. Johnson, wife of Sampson D. Potts)

Potts, Sampson D., Jan. 24, 1850 – Aug. 31, 1901

Prowell, Emily Sparkman, Feb. 4, 1832 – Jan. 2, 1929 (Lucinda Elizabeth Emily Delaney Sparkman, wife of Thomas W. Prowell, daughter of Charles Robinson Sparkman [son of William Sparkman and Rosanna Williams] and Jane Latta)

Prowell, Mary J.P., Dec. 7, 1860 – June 20, 1862 (daughter of Thomas W. Prowell and Emily Sparkman)

Prowell, Thomas Washington, Dec. 12, 1838 – July 12, 1903 (son of Thomas Prowell and Margaret Mitchell)

Reed, James Guss, Feb. 10, 1929 – Oct. 20, 2001 (son of McKinley Reed and Mary Johnson)

Robinson, Clark, May 3, 1888 – Apr. 22, 1953 (Odie Clark, son of William A. Robinson and Rebecca Erie Prowell)

Robinson, E. Sparkman, May 24, 1870 – Aug. 17, 1899 (wife of J. Matthew, daughter of William Thomas Sparkman and Margaret F. Trimble)

Robinson, Effie, Apr. 16, 1891 – Sept., 1979 (Effie Fox, wife of Clark Robinson)

Robinson, Erie Prowell, Aug. 24, 1863 – Apr. 20, 1944 (Rebecca Erie, wife of William A., daughter of Thomas W. Prowell and Emily Sparkman)

Robinson, Eva, July 23, 1900 – Sept. 13, 1990 (Eva May Shaw, wife of Herbert Alfonso Robinson, daughter of James Robert Shaw and Minnie Campbell)

Robinson, Herbert, June 20, 1898 – Apr., 1985 (Herbert Alfonso Robinson, son of William A. Whit Robinson and Rebecca Erie Prowell)

Robinson, J. Matthew, June 3, 1868 – July 11, 1947 (James Matthew Robinson, son of Charles M. Robinson and Mary E. Hassell)

Robinson, Latta, Nov. 15, 1885 – Feb. 27, 1977 (daughter of William A. Robinson and Rebecca Erie Prowell)

Robinson, Roy, Mar. 4, 1891 – Nov. 23, 1952 (son of William A. Robinson and Rebecca Erie Prowell)

Robinson, William A., Nov. 2, 1859 – Aug. 1, 1932 (William A. Whit Robinson, son of Shadrack Jackson Robinson and Sarah Jane Robinson)

Robinson, William Robert, Mar. 3, 1921 – Feb. 9, 1966 (son of Herbert A. Robinson and Eva M. Shaw)

Shaw, Clint O., 1872 – 1940 (Clint Oscar Shaw, son of Oscar J. Shaw and Elizabeth Sallie)

Shaw, Elizabeth S., Mar. 2, 1849 – Jan. 6, 1930 (Elizabeth Sallie, wife of J. Oscar Shaw)

Shaw, Evie Davis, Jan. 4, 1911 – Oct. 27, 1999 (wife of Robert Bernice Shaw)

Shaw, J. Oscar, Aug. 12, 1845 – Apr. 1, 1934 (son of John A. Shaw and Emily C. Wilson)

Shaw, James Robert, Dec. 19, 1872 – Oct. 31, 1920 (son of Thomas B. Shaw and Sarah C. Sparkman [daughter of Jesse Jackson Sparkman and Rosanna Sparkman])

Shaw, Lucy Prowell, no dates (June 18, 1866 - 25 March 1952, Lucy O., wife of Clint O., daughter of Thomas W. Prowell and Emily Sparkman)

Shaw, Minnie Bell, Nov. 29, 1873 – Jan. 28, 1950 (Minnie Bell Campbell, wife of James Robert Shaw, daughter of Ezekiel D. Campbell and Letitha Beasley)

Shaw, Robert Bernice, Sept. 1, 1909 – Mar. 11, 1962 (son of James R. Shaw and Minnie Bell Campbell)

Skelley, Augustus M., May 10, 1866 – Jan. 16, 1958 (son of James C. Skelley and Sarah L. Potts)

Skelley, Henry Potts, Sept. 20, 1871 – Mar. 6, 1958 (son of James C. Skelley and Sarah L. Potts)

Skelley, Howard B., July 17, 1901 – Dec. 29, 1918 (son of Henry Potts Skelley and Mary Beasley)

Skelley, Mary Beasley, Aug. 29, 1884 – Jan. 21, 1957 (wife of Henry Potts Skelley)

Skelley, Mattie Wall, Dec. 23, 1871 – Mar. 19, 1939 (wife of Augustus M., daughter of William W. Wall and Josephine Sparkman)

Sparkman, Annie L., 1885 – 1970 (Annie Love, wife of Collie M. Sparkman)

Sparkman, Annie, Aug. 25, 1906 – Aug., 1985 (Annie Maude Southall, wife of Glen Sparkman, daughter of Gustav Southall and Rebecca)

Sparkman, Bettie, Apr. 9, 1892 – Sept. 8, 1946 (Elizabeth T. Hawk, wife of Dallas, daughter of Jerry Hawk and Martha Beasley)

Sparkman, Edna Taylor, 1869 – 1950 (Mary Edna Lucretia, wife of William Robinson Sparkman, daughter of Cavel Taylor and Nancy Whiteside)

Sparkman, Cloumbus A., 1858 – 1877 (Columbus, son of Jesse Jackson Sparkman and Rosanna Sparkman) Tombstone (Engraver’s nightmare?)

Sparkman, Collie M., 1887 – 1931 (son of Dallas L. Sparkman and Elizabeth “Bettie” Hawk)

Sparkman, Dallas, Feb. 23, 1854 – May 1, 1930 (Dallas Lee S. ”Dall” Sparkman, son of Jesse J. Sparkman and Rosanna Sparkman)

Sparkman, Glen, June 1, 1898 – Jan. 4, 1973 (son of James Alexander Sparkman and Tishie Emaline Beasley)

Sparkman, Grover, Sept. 9, 1888 – May 12, 1972 (Jesse Grover Sparkman, son of James Madison “Matt” Sparkman and Sarah Hawk)

Sparkman, J.L., Sept. 1, 1879 – Nov. 29, 1880 (J. Lee, son of Dallas Sparkman and Bettie Hawk)

Sparkman, James, Jan. 4, 1864 – Aug. 31, 1918 (James Alexander, son of William Thomas Sparkman and Margaret Frances Trimble)

Sparkman, Jane Latta, d. 1850 (b. 1803, wife of Charles Robinson Sparkman [son of William Sparkman and Rosanna Williams], daughter of John B. Latta and Mary Jackson)

Sparkman, Lucy Rebecca, Feb. 12, 1887 – April 24, 1969 (daughter of James T. Sparkman and Laura J. King)

Sparkman, Margaret (daughter of Charles Robinson Sparkman [son of William Sparkman and Rosanna Williams] and Jane Latta)

Sparkman, Mary, Nov. 11, 1861 – Feb. 5, 1864 (daughter of John Jackson Sparkman and Elizabeth J. Burns – see also parent’s tombstone)

Sparkman, Mary Ann, Jan. 1, 1838 – July 13, 1853 (daughter of Charles Robinson Sparkman [son of William Sparkman and Rosanna Williams] and Jane Latta)

Sparkman, Mat, 1861 – 1943 (James Madison “Matt”, son of Jesse Jackson Sparkman and Rosanna Sparkman)

Sparkman, Mat, Feb. 2, 1870 – Oct. 20, 1873 (daughter of Samuel Thompson Sparkman [son of Seth Sparkman and Rebecca Latta] and Eliza Agnes Oakley)

Sparkman, Ora, Jan. 23, 1864 – Sept. 22, 1870 (daughter of Samuel Thompson Sparkman [son of Seth Sparkman and Rebecca Latta] and Eliza Agnes Oakley)

Sparkman, S.T., Jan. 26, 1849 – Aug. 18, 1878 (Selina Tabitha Church, 1st wife of Jacob Green Sparkman [son of Thomas Washington Sparkman and Nellie Ann White], daughter of Robert Church and Leacey Fitzgerald)

Sparkman, Sallie, 1868 – 1962 (Sarah Hawk, wife of James Madison “Matt” Sparkman, daughter of Jerry Hawk and Martha Beasley)

Sparkman, Tishie Cheirs, July 8, 1929 – July 11, 1929 (daughter of Glen Sparkman and Maude Southall)

Sparkman, Tishie E. Beasley, Oct. 13, 1872 – Nov. 8, 1962 (Tishie Emaline, wife of James A. Sparkman, daughter of Zachariah W. Beasley and Sam Ella Beasley)

Sparkman, Willer Mai W., Dec. 1, 1896 – Aug., 1980 (Willer Mai Warf, wife of Grover Sparkman, daughter of Henry A. Warf and Margaret E. Garner)

Sparkman, William Jackson, Oct. 23, 1928 – Jan. 24, 2003 (son of George Ewell Sparkman [son of William Robinson Sparkman and Mary Edna Lucretia Taylor] and Massie Pearl Fraser)

Sparkman, William Robinson, 1861 – 1952 (son of William Thomas Sparkman and Margaret Frances Trimble)

Taylor, J.M., July 26, 1840 – July 11, 1925 (James Matterson Taylor, son of John Wesley Taylor and Letitia Givens)

Taylor, Rebecca A., June 7, 1841 – July 26, 1900 (Rebecca Roane, wife of James M. Taylor, daughter of James Roane and Sarah Chandler)

Wall, Infant, Sept. 6, 1911 (son of William C. Wall [son of William W. Wall and Josephine Sparkman] and Gena Climer)

Wall, Josephine, 1851 – 1935 (Cynthia Pauline Josephine Sparkman, wife of William W., daughter of William Latta Sparkman [son of Seth Sparkman and Rebecca Latta] and Lucinda Wakefield)

Wall, William W., 1852 – 1935 (William Wynn Wall, son of B. Wall and Rebecca Allen)

Wilson, Albert Henderson, July 1, 1910 – July 12, 2008 (husband of Ruth Robinson)

Wilson, Ruth, Sept. 12, 1917 – Jan. 14, 2004 (wife of Albert H., daughter of Herbert A. Robinson and Eva M. Shaw)

Wood, J.R., Mar. 4, 1818 – Aug. 16, 1889

Wood, Rebecca, Aug. 22, 1835 – Feb. 17, 1906 (Rebecca Jane, wife of John R., daughter of Charles Robinson Sparkman [son of William Sparkman and Rosanna Williams] and Jane Latta)

 

LINKS

 

Celia Sparkman, daughter of William Sparkman and Rosanna Williams, accompanied her son William Williams Sparkman and son-in-law Moses Christopher Fitzgerald to the Cane Creek community of Butler County, Missouri, where a second Sparkman Cemetery was established by the next generations.  See Sparkman Cemetery, Cane Creek and the tombstone inscriptions at Butler MOGenWeb.

 

 

RETURN TO SPARKMAN CEMETERY HOMEPAGE

 

ADVANCE TO WILLIAM SPARKMAN & ROSANNA WILLIAMS RECORDS

 

ADVANCE TO WILLIAM SPARKMAN & ROSANNA SPARKMAN FAMILY RECORDS

 

Please contact Kendall Sparkman with any additions, corrections or comments.